Emmanuel College

Date: Jun 30 2011
Major: English (This Major's Salary over time)
I went to Emmanuel for the same reason most people did- they gave me a hugely generous financial aid package. It was at the bottom of my list of safety schools and I had no desire to go there. It turns out my hesitations were well founded.

I'm from Boston, and I always wanted to go to school in my city since every year I would see pictures of college kids moving into their dorms in the paper and it looked like fun. Most of my friends were also attending colleges in the area so I figured it was my best option.

Academically this place is depressing. Although I attended a competitive high school, I never thought I would be able to breeze through college so easily. I kept one notebook all year and never did any homework. Even honors courses were sub-par intellectually to classes I'd taken freshman year of high school. I did like my 3 english professors, but the english department is disgustingly under appreciated. Same goes for the arts. There is no proper performance space, and all extra curriculars involving the arts need to jump through hoops to get even the slightest bit of funding or recognition. Not what I thought a liberal arts college was all about.

The dorms were great compared to many other schools. I had a good experience in a nice double room with a good view, but not everyone got the same experience. I loved residence life, it was maybe the only thing keeping me from going absolutely insane.

Socially it was surprisingly good. Being in Boston, as long as you pursue connections, parties are not hard to come by. Which is good, because with a lack of any kind of homework or learning to speak of, you might as well just drop loads of money to get wasted.