Suffolk University

Date: Mar 17 2010
Major: Communications (This Major's Salary over time)
I want to go into the Communications/PR field, and Suffolk was one of the only universities around Boston to have the major. It accepted me, so I went, disregarding the price tag at the time.

The first couple months were fun. Everyone is taking numbers and meeting new people, you are learning the Boston landscape. After that, if you didn't form a best friendship or bond tightly with a group of people then you are on your own.

After those fun times, which looking back weren't all that great, just exciting because everything was new, I have had months of lonliness and depression. This is not because I'm some loner. Because I'm not. I talk and meet people through my classes but nothing seems to materialize into friendship. I'm not a shut-in who is afraid to leave her room or something. But the way Suffolk is set-up, it's hard, really hard.

The school is small to begin with, but most of the people spred out across the city especialy on weekends. That might be great for them, but that leaves me with no options. I literally feel outcast because everyone else has a group of friends or even friends they knew from high school. I did not realize there was a deadline for making friends here.

This also needs to be said: Like other schools with very high price tags, you are going to find rich, entitled kids running around. They will be arrogant and flaunt what they have. Designer everything, gloating their new goods from Newbury street every week costing 100s of dollars in one trip while you may be scrimping to buy one beer for this weekend.

The price tag I think is simply due to the location. I was lucky enough to have received a 5th floor dorm room, double. One wall is floor to ceiling windows facing onto the Common just off Beacon Hill. Yes, it probably would cost A LOT to live somewhere like that normally.

Yes I like my classes, but are they extraordinary? No. Do they have small class sizes? Yes. Most of my classes have had around 20 students except for one Communications Gen. Ed. class which had around 60+.

There is almost no school life here. Suffolk doesn't have events and if they do they are not successful. Sports, although they are available are almost like ghosts. I rarely meet players on the teams, and never hear about the upcoming games. We have a gym very far away. Needless to say, sports aren't a draw.

Choose carefully, and make sure you have friends before you come here, whether they go to school at Suffolk or somewhere in Boston, so you have a support system. I didn't know a soul coming here and I think it may have helped me. A lot of people here already had HUGE groups of people from home who went to Suffolk or others in Boston..

Good luck.(grad date 2013) I'm a freshman this year(2010).