Blackburn College

Date: Jul 01 2013
Major: Accounting (This Major's Salary over time)
To me, Blackburn was what you made of it. A lot of students come to this school without knowing anything about it. There were several that didn't even know they had to work on campus. So do your research on the school. The students for the most part were nice; but lazy. Not all were like that, but a lot were. They also feel "priveleged" to missing classes, turning in homework late, etc. My freshman year I worked in campus services, which was ganitorial work, and I don't know how many times people would not do their job, show up late, talk back to the supervisors. I don't know about them, but I was raised not to talk back to my superiors, and work my butt off to get ahead in life. You can have multiple jobs on campus if you want, from my sophmore to my senior year, I had to jobs on campus. One for the requirements of the college, the other for cash. And if you want to, they keep a handful of people during the Spring and Summer vacations around to keep the work going. You get free housing, and minimum wage pay.

I didn't have many issues with my teachers. I loved my accounting teachers, and art teachers. They were always there to answer my questions, give me advice, and always seemed to have my back and help me out. I only had one issue with one teacher (a psychology teacher) and she was just loony and had a horrible memory. I took my issues up with the dean of students and he took care of the problem. Sometimes the adjunct teachers they get aren't the greatest, but for a small college, they take what they can get. Most adjuncts (part-time) dont last too long.

I can say campus life can be crazy at times. A lot of parties, a lot of drinking, a lot of drama. Sometimes it seems like high school with the stuff thats going on, but I figured it came with the territory. You still have a lot of people cooped up in a small space, with different personalities, and people still trying to mature. (some failed miserably). I was able to stay away from all of it for the most part, by staying away from the people that caused the drama in the first place.

The way the place is run, is OK…could improve, I never had problems with admissions or financial aide, but student life sometimes was a pain. I had issues with roommates at times that I could not stand, and it seemed like they had to catch them in the act of violations before they did anything about it. One roommate, several times came home drunk, threw up on my clothes/computer; brought her 6 year old niece in the room at night and was partying in the room with her all night. Thankfully that was the only time I had an issue with a roommate. Usually your freshman and sophmore year you will have a roommate. Your junior and senior year you can opt to get your own room for added expense, but it comes at seniority. I had my own room my senior year and 1/2 my junior.

And there was one incident I did not care for how the college handled it at all. If you want to here about it you can email me. I wont go into detail about it, but it was completely wrong and injust on what they did.

I did like that they helped my friend (who got pregnant her sophmore year) stay in school and find her a place off campus. They made a deal with the housing authority in town for her to stay there. Granted she had to get a part time job and pay $250 a month for her apartment. She was able to make up all her classes she missed her sophmore year by writing huge papers for them, and she still graduated the same year she was planned to.

If you have any questions about this college, dont hesitate to contact me. I was there for 4 years, witnessed and seen everything and anything.