Texas A & M University - Galveston

Date: Jun 19 2011
Major: Other (This Major's Salary over time)
I graduated from TMA, the maritime branch of the school. TMA is the cheapest of the state maritime academies, and it shows. The ship is nonworking and probably always will be. The (maritime) teachers are, for the most part, nice people and fairly easy to work with. Some of the general academia profs are pretty good too (I recommend Lawhon for history) but taking physics and calculus at Tamugly is pretty rough.

The biggest issue I ran into was housing. The campus dorms aren't too bad at all, but the recently acquired "Cell Blocks" are pretty dismal. We discovered (during my stay) that the management was leaving the thermostat on 82 degrees in the last weeks of the Spring semester a couple years ago. Why? There was no reason for it. The wifi never worked and the cable was a cruddy patch in from the main campus. Moving off campus isn't really an option unless you're over 25, married or just very slick in the way you operate. If you've got a spouse or age, you'll fit in perfectly at TMA, btw. The average age is somewhere in the upper 20s.