Temple University

Date: Apr 22 2008
Major: English (This Major's Salary over time)
Overall, Temple is not a bad school and it is populated with staff who overall do want to help you succeed. However my experiences lead me to conclude that compassion is not very high on their list at least when it concerns GPA. I was given a medical exception in 2007 but they still decided that serious illness was not an excuse for missing schoolwork. I've had personal tragedies for a few different semesters and a number of different professors that I've had at Temple really didn't seem to have any sort of compassion about it. "Oh well. Turn it in tomorrw and I'll deduct maybe two less points than I was going to". Then if you're disabled and have to go through their disabilities office, good luck. It has it's own set of problems. While I don't expect everything to be 100% perfect, for what I'm paying Temple, they could at least PRETEND to care when something horrible happens to either you or your loved ones. For them it's almost like "we're sorry. That's too bad. Take a number". The bright spot is there are professors that DO care and seem very eager to help you wherever they can and they deserve all the recognition they can get. Business as usual at Temple. Don't expect any sympathy from anyone. It's the "real world", baby. Everyone has problems. What makes you think your's are so important that you deserve an extention? Why did I enroll in this school?!?!?