Naropa University

Date: May 10 2006
Major: English (This Major's Salary over time)
naropa is fun and engaging for the first semester then it's all downhill. i was one of the fools that rode it right into the ground. now i've gutted myself financially for a useless degree from a college that's laughable. and i'm worse off intellectually than when i started. at naropa you spend a lot of time looking at the floor, which is what they call meditation. do this enough, and all kinds of magic things start to happen: your money and your life both fly away, your friends all abandon you because you're a wacko, and simple problem solving and basic algebra become exceedingly difficult. naropa was a decision i made, all on my own, that i'll probably regret for the rest of my life. there was some excitement, and there are a few really gifted teachers there, but it's not worth jumping into that quagmire to get to them. i wish i had gone to a normal school with my friends and received a standard degree. if you're interested in what these teachers have to say, just get a list from the website and read their books. don't spend money and time in a school where half the student body has some kind of mental illness. maybe taking a couple of classes, or going to the summer program might be a way to get the naropa 'experience'. but going to naropa full-time to get a degree is like cutting your feet off right before you begin the (rat) race. be very careful and have an escape plan before you think about going here. this place has haunted me since i graduated and it's shadow stretches beyond the horizon. consider this caution my nod to 'compassion in action' (if you've been to naropa, you'll know what i mean).