(Hampshire) I am so, so sorry that I came to Hampshire

How this student rated the school

Educational Quality	F	Faculty Accessibility	D
Useful Schoolwork	B	Excess Competition	C
Academic Success	B-	Creativity/ Innovation	B
Individual Value	D	University Resource Use	F
Campus Aesthetics/ Beauty	F	Friendliness	D+
Campus Maintenance	F	Social Life	F
Surrounding City	F	Extra Curriculars	F
Safety	D

Describes the student body as: Afraid, Arrogant, Snooty, Closeminded Describes the faculty as: Arrogant, Condescending, Self Absorbed

Female

Quite Bright

Lowest Rating Educational Quality	F

Highest Rating Useful Schoolwork	B

She cares more about Safety than the average student.

Date: Mar 05 2009
Major: Geography and Geosciences (This Major's Salary over time)
I am so, so sorry that I came to Hampshire. Most of the students are slackers (with a few bright pockets of really self-motivated folks, most of the professors are so insanely focused on touting their PC agenda that they don't actually teach their field. Ridiculous numbers of the students are paranoidly focused on racism (in the ultra-liberal Pioneer Valley? Hello?), bashing Israel for fun or writing bizarre Div IIIs about kinky sex (guess it doesn't take much work so they choose that topic.) Oh, yeah, and being cool doing drugs (which the administration totally looks the other way about, even though it's a big problem.)

I'm gay, I'm minority and I HATE the close-mindedness on this campus (from faculty, too) that assumes I want to be ghetto-ized in a "Queer Hall" or run around being all paranoid so I can't be friends with white kids unless they bend over backwards apologizing for their "white privelege."

If you can go somewhere else, do so. Huge numbers of Hampshire students transfer out every year. I know why - and I will be one.

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