Catawba College

Date: Jun 23 2011
Major: Communications (This Major's Salary over time)
Catawba College is a complete rip off! 28k a year for what? This also is a 5 year college…most students graduate in 5 years, some, but very few graduate in 4. I made the mistake of changing my major, which I knew would set me back some, but little did I know. My advisor even told me that maybe college wasn't for me. The professors are arrogant as all get out. They believe they hung the moon and the stars in the sky, they're condescending and fake want to be goodie too shoes. And there is no such thing as middle or "common" ground in their options; you must either be extremely liberal or super conservative. Depending on what professor you get you need to make sure you are a brown noser and agree with every viewpoint he or she has. Most students that attend have never been told 'no' in their entire life. Students either play a sport or are in theatre. Those clicks DO NOT match well with one another, trust me. I did an athlete for three years, and the sport I played, wasn't funded enough money to buy our team t-shirts. Football gets everything handed to them, including their grades. There also is NO PARKING, and the ?public safety? writes tickets for evvvvverything imaginable. There is not enough lighting around the campus at night. Girls are asked to call one of the 4 public safety guards who are there on campus to chafer them??..If you chose to call, be prepared to wait 30 minutes before they appear. Overall the College pretends it has its act together while they?re giving you your tour of the school, but in reality it is a hoax. Thus far I have had a professor who had alcohol on his breath in every class I had with him, Wild Turkey to be exact, and another professor who hit on me and made me feel EXREMLY uncomfortable. Ladies be cautious wearing dresses to class if you have a male professor is all I?m saying. The activities they do have for students consist of, Build a Bear (knock off version) night (you literally stuff your own teddy bear! Definitely what every college student wants! ), Movie night in the student center, make your own lip balm, and a bunch of other cheesy things that I can?t remember because I quit going to them because they were so stupid. OH and last but not least, the books you buy at the beginning of the year are hardly ever accepted back, they?re excuse is that the chairman of whatever department, has changed the course outline for the following year, so I basically spent $700 on books each semester, to find out that they only accepted around or two of the books I bought. I would DEFINITELY re-consider going here. I got royally shafted!

P.S. Tuition raises each year?..have fun with those student loans!