Mercy College

Date: Oct 08 2008
Major: Art & Design Department (This Major's Salary over time)
If you want to do Computer Graphics, and you happen to also be restricted by area, I'd say Mercy isn't the WORST choice, but you could do so much better. Every now and again there are some terrible teachers, there are some awful teachers, but most of all, there are LAZY teachers that don't motivate you beyond your potential. It's a good school if you want to go in for something average like a teaching position, however, beyond that, it's totally disorganized and it's poorly funded. The program is also crippled by bad decision making, (Seriously, the school spent nearly over 100,000 dollars on Cintiq Wacom tablets for the Art and Design Program, but they can't afford any models, and they don't have enough easels for the students. They spent money on console systems AND games for a lounge in the White Plains campus, but they can't afford to expand that campus for more classrooms since it only has two floors, and hardly enough room for art classes.) But I'd be lying if I blamed it all on the people who run the school. In my short stay there, I saw a lot of kids fight teachers and complain when they didn't have things their way. I'd even go out on a limb and say that if the teachers weren't bad, the students were worse. All of these elements combined really made for quite an unpleasant learning environment, and when I left, I didn't regret a damn thing. I ended up switching out from there to a SUNY school in the city and quite the difference in attitude that I saw. Mercy Students have developed in other institutes (trufax) a reputation of self entitlement, an inability to handle tasks thrown at them, and a hell of an attitude problem to boot for a reason. I can say that some of it has to do with the fact that most of these kids came out of High School with no goals and an attitude that things will be automatically handed to them on a silver platter *cough cough* Westchester kids* cough cough*. You ask most of them how they get good grades, and they will tell you they haven't changed their work ethic since High School. Overall, Mercy College is a last resort for most, because trust me, it's not the GREATEST school. If you are serious about your education and getting something out of it, look elsewhere. If you want to take some easy classes or even classes that you know might help your GPA out in Continuing Education, it's not a bad place to look into. Just stick to yourself and don't make friends with anyone.