Hawaii Pacific University

Date: Oct 02 2004
Major: Other (This Major's Salary over time)
First of all, I am taking all my courses at the Windward campus, so I can't really call HPU a ghetto school. I actually have graduated from a four-year college on the mainland, but am just taking courses here at HPU. But I agree that the downtown campus is a tenth-world country. There are bums, druggies and weirdos hanging around the Fort Street area. But the windward campus is totally different. I think the windward campus is very nice with the hillside in the back and lush green plants everywhere. I don't live on campus, so I don't know much about dorm life. But I do like the weight room / gym. It's small, cozy, and I feel like I can use that facility whenever I need to. I also enjoy my classes and especially the instructors. Speaking of instructors, I'm glad that a lot of them speak English well! At my alma mater, I had TA's and professors who came from other countries and I barely understood what the heck they said. At HPU, the TA are also instructors, and they are born in the US. In fact my Chem TA is also my instructor. The downside to the windward campus is there's no food court, civilization is quite a distance away, and the dorm is just isolated! My friend also told me that his dorm is in one of the hotels in Waikiki! WTF! He has to get up 6:00AM every morning to get to class on the windward campus. But that's his perspective. But for me, so far, I'm very happy here at HPU. I find students here more approachable than the students at my former college. Oh, not to mention, if you dorm on th windward campus, please purchase a car. You don't want to have to wait for the campus shuttle to take you to downtown.