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Bard College Simon's Rock

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Date: Jan 22 2008
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Going to Simon's Rock was the worst major life decision I ever made, and one from which I'm still trying to recover.

I came to SRC with a specific major in mind. When that ended up not working out, I just grabbed the first thing I could to get a diploma and get out. Now, four years later, I've barely worked except through temp agencies, the lustre of my degree has faded completely, and I've got nothing to show for my parents having wasted $136k on this place in a job market that hates people who get a useless degree as a status symbol - which is all this degree is good for outside of grad school. If you want to flutter around in a pseudo-liberal intellectual fog with a bunch of immature kids who mostly think they're a lot smarter than they actually are, this might be a good place for you. If you actually want to succeed in the world, run away from this place and stay there, unless you want to spend the next 8 years of your life in grad school to make up for SRC's awful job placement and general lack of world preparation. What I needed most when I came here, I realize now, was a lesson in survival skills, which SRC will most certainly not give you unless you get too close to another student who learned those skills elsewhere - and then you learn these skills painfully and extremely after the fact. Real life crushes most alums of this place, which is why 60% of them end up marrying other alums, and there are always a few in every class who end up sitting in their parents' basement playing computer games years after they graduate. Don't get me wrong - you can learn a lot here if you apply yourself, and most of the faculty are truly wonderful (perhaps a little too wonderful at times). The fact remains, though, that real life is exactly like high school, and coming here just to escape high school is going to screw you later, when you actually need to succeed in the real world. Only come here if you have the motivation to get really good grades and either transfer after you get your AA, or get your BA here and go straight to grad school. Don't be an idiot like I was, and don't be too impatient for high school to end. High school sucks, but so does real life, and if you get too addicted to Simon's Rock's reality bubble in between, real life is going to hurt. And if you're a social misfit wanting any sort of social life whatsoever, this is not the place to get it. Don't delude yourself into thinking that Rockers are any less cruel, idiotic or insecure than any normal teenager - Rockers are just usually a little more sophisticated about it. And sometimes not. In short, make sure this is really what you want before you commit to taking out the loan, and make sure the objectives that you think you have coming here are actually going to hold up for four years and beyond. This place has been truly wonderful for some people, but being in the reality bubble for too long can also really screw you up. It mostly depends on the individual and whether or not you're prepared for real life before coming here. If you are, you'll do fine. If not, you'll probably have problems later on in life. Think long and hard before you come here, and don't be afraid to leave if it isn't working out, even if it means not graduating "on time", or starting over at a different school. At some point in your young life things will really start to suck, and if you're not going straight to another university after this one, it makes no sense to pay $136k to get a worthless piece of paper that odds are will lead you nowhere in real life and only gives the 80% of America that doesn't have a degree another reason to hate you. Don't let my bitterness at having let myself be sucked in for too long scare you away, but make sure you have a good reason to come here specifically as opposed to one of the other thousands of universities in North America. You'll thank yourself for it later.

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