The University of Houston

Date: Feb 19 2006
Major: English (This Major's Salary over time)
The University of Houston is actually WORSE than attending a practical (and less expensive) two-year college. If your high school record is less than impressive (which mine is), but you feel you deserve a second shot because you're somewhat brilliant (but have a rebellious past), do some facework at an inexpensive community college, do community service and charity work, and then transfer to a school of merit.

I wish I would have done that; I have to START ALL OVER. A UH student gains a UH reputation - easy, unintelligent, low standards. The University of Houston has a reputation for being a RIDICULOUS and INFLATED institution. Their international students TEACH THE CLASSES, and the school seeks to mutilate your GPA through busywork to make it seem challenging. Most students drop out or transfer. (Good luck transferring with UH next to your name, by the way.)

The Financial Aid office dropped me from my classes 3 times one semester, charged me for a class I didn't even register for, and when I could no longer afford UH, THEY STILL GAVE ME Fs, EVEN WHILE WITHDRAWN.

I spent over $200 on ECONOMY parking, ran my car into the ground commuting 50 miles total every day, spent over $400 per semester on substandard books, and participated in the Honors Program full of untalented, vapid, and overconfident students who were less than intelligent.

The Human Situation class was about the only good experience I had at UH. I met few truly gifted people in the program that ended up transferring to NYU, Rice, UT, A&M, Carnegie Mellon, etc. Honors College professors, although brilliant, are not treated fairly or paid enough because UH spends their money on propaganda and sports.

And the students are trashy, trashy, trashy. Ghetto, image-absorbed, vapid, vain, loud, obnoxious, dreadfully misinformed, unintelligent, low-brow. I met about 4 bright students there. The rest are G-Unit, cliquey rejects.

If you MUST go to college in Houston, go to Rice or a community college. Otherwise, I recommend taking real risks away from home for the sake of your future than attending this JOKE of an institution.