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| Major: Psychology (This Major's Salary over time) | | Gender: Male | This person cares more about Surrounding City than the average student. | Intelligence:
Quite Bright | | ACT: | | SAT: | | Lowest Rating
Social Life D | Describes the student body mostly as:
Arrogant, Snooty, ClosemindedDescribes the faculty mostly as:
Friendly, Helpful | Highest Rating
Faculty Accessibility A+ | How this student rated the school:
| Educational Quality | B | Faculty Accessibility | A+ | | Useful Schoolwork | A | Excess Competition | C- | | Academic Success | C- | Creativity/Innovation | B | | Individual Value | D+ | University Resource Use | B | | Campus Aesthetics/Beauty | C+ | Friendliness | C | | Campus Maintenance | C+ | Social Life | D | | Surrounding City | D | Extra Curriculars | D | | Safety | A- |
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Wow.
All I can say is, if you value individuality I
would strongly recommend you not go here. I find
it hard to be in this place. Granted, the
town is safe, but the lack of diversity is astounding,
and the town seems to be made of people who
strive to look the same and act the same- a
kind of bland midwestern persona or a annoyingly snooty and
arrogrant east coaster. Those two subgroups make up 99.99
percent of the campus. There international students the school
is so proud of are all from Asia, which is
nice and all, but the school would have you
believe they come from all over- really only the grad
students do. The treatment of minority issues in class
is fair and honest, but the town of Madison does
not follow suit- racism might be hard to see at
first (outside of the basically all white student body), but
after living here a while the situation of blacks in
the town becomes heartbreaking-students could care less about them, and
they seem so segregated, like they're swept off campus or
something. Many students would not consider interracial dating, and
I believe that says alot. For most students, this
is not a problem, but if you believe a good
education cannot be so unless it includes all kinds of
people, you will get verrry frusterated. As for the
social life- honestly students are ambitious and very full of
themselves off state street (main street) area...the private dorms are
notorious for the eastern metrosexuals and catty girls. Those from
the midwest are more layed back and typically have a
good sense of humor, but are cliquish with friends from
home and go home often if from wisconsin. Parties
are everywhere, but there just seems to be something lacking
in the scene. Nobody seems to think to deeply
for themselves-they are slaves to their texts and study only
for tests...it is actually very dissapointing. Paradoxically,
classes here are always interesting and mind broadening. Professors
are great and accesable, and the lecture halls are the
perfect size. However, going to classes is hideous,
as it can be (and usually is) horrifically freezing here...and
its a huge campus to walk across. It can
be very discouraging to try to go to class (if
you come for a tour, they will be scheduled
one of the 6 or so weeks when its warm
out...sneaky) The discussions can be infuriating because students rarely
discuss-I've had TA's just completely kinda twidle their thumbs and
such to fill the time. Advising is also a
challenge, considering the majority of departments in L and S
literally have advisors there for no reason. You come
in to be advised and they got nothing to say.
Other schools, like human ecology, have great advising services.
It is also maddeningly frusterating to get into many
programs (journalism, education, design, business, theater are all very competitive,
to name a few) even if you're at UW, which
is something they dont tell you in the brochures, The
school and town are artistically inspiring if you actually go
out of your way to look for oppertunities to get
involved- theres a great art gallery, some community theater, and
tons of local bands that nobody ever talks about but
if you see them are guarenteed to be fun.
Sports are huge here, tailgating parties are fun.
The school offers very interesting lectures and clubs and discussions.
Honestly, academically it is a very good place to
be-the classes and other UW-sponsored learning activities themselves are great.
But the social scene is full of pretty superfiscial
carbon copies, and it can be very trying at times.
My experience personally has been nightmarish, though outwardly it
might have seemed normal and fun. To live in
madison is to live in a classist society...
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Responses I think it's hilarious that you described other students as "arrogant, snooty, and close-minded" when that seems to perfectly describe you! You described yourself as "quite bright," but some of your spelling and grammar mistakes are atrocious. Don't make assumptions about me and my fellow students. I (and everyone I know) only go home for holiday breaks. How arrogant of you to profess to be THE ONLY ONE talking about local bands. How snooty of you to assume that you're THE ONLY ONE who really appreciates the true academia of college, while the rest of us are simply "slaves to [our] texts and study only for tests." How impossibly close-minded of you to make such a broad and offensive statement as "Many students would not consider interracial dating"? What's your evidence? Because my friends are quite racially diverse and plenty of my friends have dated people of other races. It's just that we don't stop and point at it in the street and shout "Look! Interracial dating!" We don't throw them a "You're interracial dating" party. We don't coo over them as if their difference in race is the most significant aspect of their relationship. We just don't see it as anything out of the ordinary. For someone who labels us all collectively as racists, you spout some quite offensive stereotypes, like "a kind of bland midwestern persona or a [sic] annoyingly snooty and arrogrant [sic] east coaster." You make me sick. You didn't deserve this school, anyway. |
| "Teach Me How to Bucky" is pretty good evidence of this. |
| If the "could care less about them," that's a good thing. You meant "couldn't care less." An ever-so common mistake among the "quite bright." To sweep 99% up as "bland" n'westerners and "snooty and arrogant" east coaters smacks of the highest hypocracy. |
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