Emerson College

Date: Jan 08 2005
Major: Perfomance Arts (This Major's Salary over time)
There are some really incredible people teaching at Emerson (at least in the Writing/Literature and Theatre Arts Departments), enough to balance out the occasional crap teachers (I've had one so far). I'm in the honors program there, and have felt free to add classes that I'm interested in - not too many gen. ed.s but enough so that I've learned about things I'd never considered learning about. Oh, and Emerson owns a twelfth century castle in the NETHERLANDS! That's the reason I came, to live and study in a castle, and that program is absolutely incredible/life-changing/unique/(insert any other positive descriptive here).

The kids can be very cliquish based on which major they're in, but I added a major in my junior year and found myself very much accepted into a new group of friends. The administration is total crap and needs to go, not to mention student services which is known for refusing to give the students money back that is rightfully theirs. But the faculty is filled with such passionate, intelligent, caring individuals that it makes up for all that. Take a class with Bethany Nelson or Jill McDonough if you ever get the chance.