Assumption College

Date: Jun 20 2013
Major: Psychology (This Major's Salary over time)
Assumption College can be described in one word: Fake. No one at the school actually likes the school as much as they make you believe. When you go on a campus tour/accepted students day/orientation, they make all the students seem to be really happy and a community. This could not be further from the truth. The students are paid to act this way in t-shirts and dunkin donuts gift cards.

The students in all actuality feel trapped. The dorms are not all that exciting. The rooms are small and barren and the way they are set up causes so many issues. People hate on each other because of where they get to live and students within the same building hate on each other because of the way the ?pods? are designed. People are enclosed in these pods and really don?t have too many opportunities to meet people. Another problem with this set up is that if you do not make friends with the people in your pod you are isolated and lonely.

Another issue is the on campus drinking. The campus police take drinking too seriously and break up any ?parties? so quickly. But there is also a lot of in dorm room drinking. The problems with that is the noise issue and smell issue and general annoyance caused by it. Unless you are a drinker there is nothing to do on the weekends. And good luck trying to study or get to bed early/at a reasonable hour because of all of your partying neighbors.

Due to the size of Assumption there are also a lot of cliques. It is just like high school all over again. Everyone is in each other?s business and gossip runs rampant. The school is also very judgy. Most everyone dresses the same and listens to the same music and if you are not a part of that most you are an outcast and will probably always remain an outcast because of the cliquey terrible nature of the students. The football team has an entire side of the dining hall just to themselves because of the cliques.

Assumption also feels really prison like. There is nowhere within easy walking distance and Assumption has very few buses that go anywhere. Those buses are also only on the weekend and are at the most inopportune times. You can never just get on the bus, run to like CVS or any store and be back within an hour on a Saturday afternoon. 1) because the buses only run after 5 on Friday and Saturday nights and 2) because there is at least a 45 minute drive to go anywhere because of the convoluted routes.

The food at the school is also shitty. Prepare for the boring and the tasteless and also the calorie exorbitant.

One plus is the education, most teachers seem to actually. Care. Most. You can still get teacher who are only there for their research and tenure. You can also get teachers that can barely speak English, but I think the quality of education overall is what I expected. Not too high but not exactly low.

The administration though is terrible. You can never get a quick response from anyone, especially Res Life and they always seem to respond with a 'sorry, can't do that' and rarely are helpful. No one actually seems to care about the students.

In all honesty, you can find a better school elsewhere and for cheaper.