Southern Connecticut State University

Date: Jan 19 2012
Major: Physics (This Major's Salary over time)
This place is the seventh-circle of hell. If I could go back in time and take back the decision to attend Southern, I'd do it in a heart beat. I hate every day I'm here.

There is NO parking. The lots are full by 8am, and when you finally give up trying to find a space after 45 minutes and park in the "faculty/staff/grad" lots, you get a ticket. Occasionally you have to walk a mile or two down the road through New Haven to reach parking. Which, during the evening, is incredibly dangerous.

Campus is always under construction and built by a group of complete morons. The main walkway to access 75% of our buildings is built in a basin, with no drains. Every time it rains, even lightly, it floods like hell. I've repeatedly walked to class and around campus with water up to my thighs. If it's winter time, they've got the heat cranked up to 90. If it's summer, the air is down to 50. Calling and making a complaint will not fix the situation.

Most of the people at Southern are completely idiotic. Some of these kids still don't know the difference between there/their/they're, and how to add and subtract negative numbers. Although I've met a handful of truly intelligent people, they're few and far between. The rest of them are a bunch of ugg, spandex, northface-wearing ditz balls, and pathetic jocks who hardly (or didn't deserve) to pass high school.

I commute to campus, and I can say that every day I do I want to rip my hair out. I have to drive through New Haven, which 1. is through the ghetto no matter how well you navigate, and 2. like going through an obstacle course. I've almost run people over because New Haven residents just don't comprehend the idea of a crosswalk and "DO-NOT-WALK" signal. The roads are always a disaster. I've blown my tire out on their roads.

I have never met a professor in this university that follows rules. People can hand in their assignments late. They take off a few points, if that. Sometimes I feel like high school was more challenging.

You'll never get out in time, because they make you take your ENTIRE high school curriculum again. I've had to take American and Western History, Music History, Psychology, Health, GYM (WTF?!). You should just go from middle school, to Southern. Save yourself 4 years.

And the main administration in Wintergreen is run by the most pathetic, rude and incompetent people I've ever met. They are just downright NASTY. Which is kind of funny, seeing as how they CONSTANTLY lose papers and screw things up. I have had to check my degree evaluation every day for the last two months because they keep screwing it up. Getting one class put on your transcript for a transfer? Or even just from a department for gen-ed use? Takes a month.

Slow. as. molasses.

Furthermore, they keep raising our tuition, and making frivolous purchases with the money. Then, they say "WE DON'T HAVE ANY MONEY LEFT! WE HAVE TO INCREASE YOUR TUITION AGAIN!" There are no new supplies or resources in our department. BUT, there are now 25 new 50" flat-screen TVs throughout campus to advertise…

All and all, I can say that my time here was a complete ulcer-inducing headache, and I regret choosing this school. If you can do ANYTHING to stay away - DO IT.