Union College

Date: Mar 04 2009
Major: Business - Management and Administration (This Major's Salary over time)
DO NOT COME HERE!! (PLEASE READ THIS, JUST DO IT)

This school should really be called: Union Pseudo-College or Union High School

Honestly people, I can not express this enough, just don't go to Union, don't do it. Seriously, if you are normal human being, not a nerd, and not a douchebag job DO NOT COME HERE. I don't know what else to say just save yourself from this sh,do yourselves a favor and save your money. However, if you are wanting a continuation on a bullshit high school experience than by all means come here.

THIS SCHOOL IS THE BIGGEST WASTE OF MONEY. THE WORST INVESTMENT YOU COULD EVER MAKE.

I don't even know where to start….

The People: Basically suck. Granted, there are some cool normal people everywhere, but here they are few and far between. They have to accept so many douchebag jocks that they balance them out with nerds with higher scores. As a result, there is a lack of down to earth, normal, and mature people. Everyone here is from New England, EVERYONE, honestly I am not joking. I guess that is what you would expect from a small liberal arts school on the east coast, but don't let them tell you otherwise. I honestly didn't know people as shitty as this existed. Most are backwards hat wearing jerks with their high school football jackets and such or girls who have an inflated image of their looks and appeal to guys. Everyone will tell you that,

there's a lot of hot women that go to union

While the school is not a doghouse, this is really not true, The few actually good looking women on this campus go for senior frat guys, so if you are an underclassmen looking for anyone even decent looking…Good luck. If you are either one of these aforementioned asshole jocks please do come here, and if you are a girl with even marginal looks, come here as well, as you will have this sausage fest of a school coming after you. But once again, if you a normal human being looking for other normal college students, STAY AWAY FROM THIS HIGH SCHOOL.

The Social Life: Frats, frats, and more frats. That's it. It's all frat. For freshman there is nothing else. They call this school "the mother of all fraternities," but the frat parties are worse than garbage. Honestly most are a sausage fest full of freshman guys and frat brothers sleezing on the three good-looking women at the party with Kanye blasting in the background. While at first one of these "parties" might look cool, they're really not and they get old really fast (like after the first 2 weekends). For upperclassmen there are some off campus houses where they have parties, but if you are a freshman and don't know anyone who has a house, your stuck with the frats. Even with the occasional off campus party, the fraternities and sororities (who don't really throw parties) are all there is to do here. Don't let the administration tell you that the Minervas take away from the frats because they really don't. They are there as glorified dorms that plan the occasional barbeque. This is for sure the lamest excuse for a party school that anyone will ever see.

Academics: People have a misconception that Union is a great school, and that a degree from here will set you for life. I've had people try to convince me that from the day I got here, but why then has no one heard of this school? Honestly, its like 45 on the princeton review list (for what it's worth). I believe the academic prestige of this school is way overrated. It also runs on TRIMESTERS. Please understand what this actually means before coming here. I didnt. You start a week into september, have 6 weeks off from thanksgiving until after new years, a spring break for 10 days when NO ONE ELSE HAS OFF, and you get out like June 10th. If you do not know the college schedule, this is more than a month after ALL OTHER COLLEGES. This both screws you over for internships/summer jobs, and keeps you rotting here, while your real friends are home together having fun. In these trimesters, you only take three classes, and have way too much free time and not enough work. I know, i know, no one wants to work in college, but I'm more than willing to work harder during a semester so I don't have to deal with these bullshit trimesters. The course selection here is also atrocious. They had more classes available at my high school. Honestly, most freshman get shut out many classes and can't take the ones they want because they have to register after everyone else. They only have one section of each class, so if its full or if it conflicts with anything else, too bad. And now everyone wants to make a lot of money and be an econ major. The economics department is here is an absolute joke, if you are looking to get a good business education don't come here. Just don't be fooled by this school if you think it actually is good, it really is not. Just trust me.

Facilities/Food: Wow, just wow. This school was founded in 1795 and it still looks we are still in the same century. Honestly though the facilities here are awful. Classrooms, administration buildings, dorms…all awful. The classroom buildings are old, and even the newer ones aren't that nice. Many classrooms still have chalkboards and everything is very rundown. The dorms are just as bad. The rooms are serviceable, but have gross carpets and awful bathrooms. Seriously these bathrooms are the shittiest college bathrooms you will ever see. There are no individual shower stalls, rather a shower are, that is separated by three curtains. Seriously there are these gross troughs for urinals, and the toilet stalls open in. You'll understand what I mean if you come here (if you are stupid enough to do). The Minervas are better living options and college park is okay, but it is way to far away and the Minervas are hard to get into. There also is a bookstore/convenience store on campus, which should be sued for price gouging…….The food, oh god, the food….there is one adjective that can be used to describe the dining on this campus. Seriously, the dining food on this campus is the biggest joke I've ever seen. West Dining hall, which the freshman have to go to is so shitty it pains me everytime I have to eat there. The only good food is unhealthy, and the first term they rip your parents off and give you 19 meals a week, which you will NEVER USE. Honestly west dining hall is the worst cafeteria in america, it is dirty, old, and has shitty food. The upper class dining hall is a slight step up, but it is not nearly big enough for the rest of campus. If you live in College Park, a converted Ramada Inn, you have to walk 10 minutes just to eat. If the dining didn't suck enough, there are only 2 other options (i don't count the college park snack thing or the health food place). There are 2!!!! I shit you not. Dutch Hollow "Restaurant" (should be called "Snack Bar") is the main non -cafeteria options. They overcharge for the slightly below average food. It is run by the school, so it can be as shitty as it wants and the employees don't know how to make food. Rathskellar is the other place, which is like an underground greasy snack bar. Don't expect to get anything of remotely nutritional value here. It is suppousedly open late on the weekends, but it is really open until just 2. If you know anything about college, drunk kids are just getting hungry around then and after it closes (at like 130, they always have to shut down the grill early) you're out of luck. The milkshakes suck by the way, don't let the t-shirts of the workers fool you. To sum it all up, this college refuses to spend money on any new development, they try to barely scrape everything. The food got old here after my first bite, and it pains me to eat every time since. Honestly, everything ever built on this campus just sucks in every sense of the word.

Administration/staff: In short, a lot of the people who work in the administration are not every helpful, nor very smart. Also, a side note, IF YOU ARE LOOKING FOR AN ON-CAMPUS JOB AND YOU ARE NOT IN THE WORK STUDY PROGRAM, YOU WONT FIND ONE. Also Campus security, or "Campo" are not really here to help the students rather than to bust them for disciplinary stuff. We also have a points system, where certain discipline violations are assigned penalty points. They are wannabe cops who are completely worthless. The administration here is complete bullshit, they lie about how good this school actually is, and have the most asinine policies about nearly everything.

Schenectady: AS BAD AS ADVERTISED. Honestly, this is the worst city in America. It gives absolutely nothing to the college, and provides barely any resources to the student body. There have been muggings on campus and the city is not safe at all. The stereotypes are true. The entire city is run down and should be wiped off the face of the earth.

Honestly people I could go on all day…In case you couldn't tell, I'm a freshman, and I'm getting the hell out of here at the end of the year. I hated it here from the minute I stepped on campus and encountered the rampant douchebaggery at this school and everything else that sucks about it…….COMING HERE WAS THE WORST DECISION OF MY LIFE. I THOUGHT I WOULD BECOMING TO A REAL COLLEGE, NOT SOME GLORIFIED BOARDING SCHOOL. THIS IS TRULY A HIGH SCHOOL. I REALLY AM NOT EXAGGERATING HERE, PLEASE LISTEN TO ME, YOU WILL NOT GET A REAL COLLEGE EXPERIENCE HERE. THIS SCHOOL SUCKS SO HARD AND CAN'T EVEN EXPRESS IT. DON'T BELIEVE WHAT ANYONE SAYS, I DID, AND LOOK WHAT HAPPENED. IF YOU ARE NORMAL, MATURE, PERSON DON'T COME HERE YOU WILL BE MISERABLE. I KNOW I'M VERY REPETITIVE AND PROBABLY HAVE MANY GRAMMATICAL AND SPELLING ERROS, BUT JUST LISTEN TO ME, DON'T COME HERE TO THIS BULLSHIT SCHOOL……

DON'T DO IT, JUST DON'T FUCKINGG DO IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!