Millikin University

Date: Jan 14 2008
Major: Communications (This Major's Salary over time)
I am a first year communication student. Let me start out with a warning, if you only listen to one thing a stranger tells you your entire life, may it be this:

DO NOT, UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCE WHATSOEVER GO TO THIS SCHOOL.

I hope that gets the point across. I started out my college search considering many things about each school. I ended up choosing Millikin because of the campus being nice looking, pretty decent dorms, and a fairly good reputation academically.

However, once I began orientation, one thing was very clear. This school is not worth it.

The people are boring, stuck up, white-washed, upper middle class brats. Boring, not worldly, and lacking intellect.

Most of them haven't worked more than a day in their life.

The school itself is alright, the education is fairly alright. BUT, the staff is not helpful in regards to setting up schedules, etc. It is also poorly located. There are many people I know who have been mugged. The campus itself is fairly safe—but step a block in either direction and you are in the ghetto. Decatur is a dying town. There is no economy here besides soybean processing, and in one word: SMELLY. There are days the air is thick with the smell, a pungent cat food like odor that seeps into the dorms. It is disgusting. There is a train that goes by every day about 15 times, about 10 of which are between the hours of 11 pm and 4 am. Not a pleasant way to wake up.

The party scene here is boring. The Frats are stereotypically the only place anything goes on. I've met some nice people, but the parties get old, they are boring, and they represent a lot about the school, kids party here a lot because there is simply nothing else to do.

If you are looking for a cultured town with a lot to do and an educated, worldly student body, do not apply to Millikin.

They will give you a lot of money to go here because they are deeply in debt and give out incentives to keep people coming in. The retention rate is horrific, most kids transfer after 1st semester of freshman year or the end of freshman year.

This is not a good environment to start over in, not a good environment to learn in, and most of all not a good environment for any intellectual stimulation whatsoever. Most of the teachers here are from community colleges and don't have much experience. It isn't worth the money. I am glad I realized this my freshman year and I still have time to get out and go somewhere worth being.