Regent University

Date: Dec 31 1969
Major: Communications (This Major's Salary over time)
Ok, so this is my experience at this school - I'll try to keep it as brief as possible.

The COMM school is about a "C+" quality. Some of the teachers are excellent - Dr. Elvgren is one of THE best writing teachers you could ever have, Dr. Quicke is fantastic, Dr. Miller is great. Some of the teachers are here, but more about pursuing their own careers (none of the ones listed), and others are kind of arrogant or play favorites (again, not listed). If you're a writing student with little production experience HOPING to get some (like I was)…yeah, fat chance. You will be SORELY disappointed with this school. I had to drop TWO classes (and one had to be taken as a Withdrawal) that were BEGINNER courses (one in directing, one in editing) because they were way too advanced for me and I had no idea what was going on. If you want to actually shoot or edit your own stuff, you better have a really good friend with a lot of time on their hands (good luck with that) or be a REALLY fast learner.

Another problem with the COMM program is that they have too much of a focus on their online program. To the point where I was forced to take a required class, only offered online (as an on-campus student) because they weren't OFFERING an on-campus option. What was crazier was that there were about 30 some people registered for this class, most of them being on-campus students. I CHOSE to move 600 miles away from my hometown and live on-campus for 1) the experience and 2) because I absolutely suck at taking online classes and avoid them like the plague if I can.

Also, don't expect ANY of your films to get in the "endowed films" made unless they have a highly "redemptive" theme. Just FYI.

Ok, so on to the university in general. First point: I do not recommend going to this school unless you identify yourself with the conservative, right-winged Republican party. Otherwise…you won't have a very good time here. And that's all I have to say about that.

Second: Do NOT, I repeat, DO NOT live in on-campus housing as a graduate student. For one, you won't have the option, at least not if you want to live alone (not until they build another dorm, anyway). Regent Housing is the biggest slap in the face, most ridiculous excuse for a living situation I have ever been in in my entire life. And I once lived in a neighborhood where my house was robbed three times in three months, and our neighbors' at gunpoint.

In my time at Regent Housing, I was:

written up by an RA because my 40-something neighbor who did not like me because I ONCE fell asleep while watching TV at a LOW volume (even though she talked to me about it the next day and I apologized and it never happened again) complained to him anyway and also lied and said that I run my dishwasher in the middle of the night,

had my entire family's Christmas gifts withheld from me by the housing office because the girl at the desk forgot to send out a package notice, meaning my entire family got their Christmas gifts late AND I had to ship them to them at extra cost to me,

a "security policy" was put into place in my 2nd year, requiring all residents to check in their guests from the hours of 8pm-12am, and for us to show our ID badges to an undergraduate "security personnel" standing by the front door (which was the only door in the building not on lockdown from the hours of 8pm-8am)

was deceived by university housing after first year when they integrated undergraduates into the first two floors, but neglected to inform us that they would be converting the ENTIRE building to undergraduate-only dorms the following year, which would have allowed me to find an off-campus apartment a year earlier and live in said apartment for 2 YEARS rather than 6 MONTHS (and a MUCH HIGHER RENT).

And I'm leaving out the MANY times I've had to call maintenance over broken air conditioners, light sockets, or the MANY times I've had to call IT because the cable/internet was out. Or the per semester "inspections" that housing conducts to make sure the students are complying with "health and safety regulations" i.e. the excuse to barge into your home and make sure you don't have any beer in your fridge or candles on your coffee tables, because we all know people in their mid-twenties are far too irresponsible to be trusted with candles.

If you REALLY want to come to Regent, save yourself an academic year(s) of hell and live off-campus. You will THANK me.