The Florida Institute of Technology

Date: Aug 03 2013
Major: Computer Science (This Major's Salary over time)
DO NO GO HERE. THIS UNIVERSITY IS A WASTE OF TIME AND MONEY. THE PROFESSORS ARE CONDESCENDING, AND SOME ARE JUST PLAIN RACIST. THEY PICK AND CHOOSE AND STEREOTYPE YOU. DEPENDING ON WHICH SIDE YOU FALL ON, IT WILL IMPACT YOUR GRADES HUGELY. THE GSA'S AND COMPUTER SCIENCE PROFESSORS WERE VERY UNHELPFUL. ONE PROFESSOR BARELY EVEN TAUGHT, AND ANOTHER, YOU WERE GUARANTEED TO FAIL HIS CLASS AS IT SEEMED HIS CLASS WAS DESIGNED AS A "WEED-OUT" CLASS. FOR $34k A YEAR ($51k WITH BOARDING AND FOOD), THIS WAS DEFINITELY NOT WORTH IT. I HAD PROFESSORS LOOK AT ME LIKE I WAS DUMB AND DIDN'T BELONG IN THE PROGRAM. GSA'S WOULD HELP THEIR OWN KIND, ONE OF THEM BASICALLY TELLING ONE OF THE STUDENTS HOW TO WRITE THE CODE FOR THE PROGRAMMING ASSIGNMENT. WHEN I ASKED FOR HELP, THEY WOULD JUST SMIRK OR PUT ON THEIR ARROGANT LOOK, BARELY EVEN HELPING ME. I LEARNED MOST OF MY PROGRAMMING SKILLS ON THE ONLINE JAVA FORUMS, WAY MORE THAN FROM THE PROFESSORS. THIS WAS DEFINITELY NOT WORTH THE $34K. BASICALLY THIS SCHOOL FUNCTIONS AS A RECRUITING GROUND FOR THE HARRIS CORP. IF YOU'RE NOT DEEMED WORTHY OF A JOB IN THEIR EYES OR YOU DON'T HAVE THE LOOK, THEY WILL TRY TO WEED YOU OUT AND MAKE LIFE TOUGH FOR YOU SO THAT YOU WILL LEAVE. THEY IS A REASON WHY THIS IS A "ONE-AND-DONE" UNIVERSITY. MOST PEOPLE LEAVE AFTER A YEAR.

ALL THE PROFESSORS SHARE OFFICES CLOSE TO EACH OTHER. WORDS SPREAD, AND IF YOU'RE TAKING A SERIES OF CLASSES, YOUR NEXT PROFESSOR WOULD ALREADY STEREOTYPE AND PROFILE YOU. I'M GLAD I LEFT THIS UNIVERSITY. IT'S MORE POLITICS THAN LEARNING. NOT TO MENTION, OF THE 12 CLASSES I TOOK, FOUR OF THEM I WAS ON THE BUBBLE FOR THE NEXT GRADE LETTER. ALL FOUR OF THEM I WAS BUMPED DOWN FOR NO APPARENT REASON. I DON'T SEE HOW I CAN HAVE A 94 BEFORE THE FINALS EXAM, DO REASONABLY GOOD ON THE FINALS, HAVE AN 89.3, THEN NOT BE GIVEN THE BENEFIT OF THE DOUBT. AND FLORIDA TECH IS ONE OF THOSE ALL-OF-NOTHING UNIVERSITIES IN TERMS OF GRADES. AN 89.49 IS THE SAME THING AS A 79.5, IN TERMS OF GPA. THEY DON'T DIFFERENTIATE BETWEEN AN A-, A+, OR AN A. SO AS A RESULT, MY GPA SUFFERED. SO, IN TERMS OF GRADES, A GUY WITH A A 76 BEFORE THE FINALS ENDED UP WITH THE SAME GRADE AS ME, EVEN THOUGH I HAD A 94 BEFORE THE FINALS IN ONE CLASS. HOW THE HELL DOES THAT EVEN MAKE SENSE? NOT TO MENTION, YOU DON'T SEE HOW THEY GRADE OR WHAT THEY GRADE WHEN YOU TAKE THE FINALS. SO THESE BIASED TEACHERS COULD JUST MARK YOUR PAPER REALLY HARD, AND YOU WOULD NOT HAVE ANY WAY TO CONTEST IT.

THE SCHOOL IS VERY CLIQUE-Y AND RACISTS. WITH A MOSTLY WHITE POPULATION, IF YOU ARE A MINORITY, YOU WILL BE STEREOTYPED. AND FOR THE MIDDLE EASTERN PEOPLE THAT LOOK LIKE ME, THEY HAVE THEIR OWN CLIQUES TOO, AND MOST OF THEM CAME FROM THEIR MIDDLE EAST COUNTRIES AS GROUPS AND FRIENDS. SOME OF THEM DON'T EVEN TAKE BATHS, AND THEY ARE VERY UNFRIENDLY. THE WHITES HANG WITH THEIR OWN KIND, AND FOR THE FEW BLACKS AND ASIANS, THEY TRY TO HANG WITH THE WHITE GUYS. I FELT ISOLATED, AND I DID NOT FIT IN AT ALL.

THE GIRLS ARE VERY STOCK UP, AND THEY KNOW THAT SINCE THERE ARE ONLY A FEW OF THEM, THEY WILL GAIN ALL THE ATTENTION. MOST OF THEM ARE PLAIN UGLY.

FOR THE GOOD, THE FINANCIAL AID DEPARTMENT WAS VERY HELPFUL. ALSO THE CAMPUS IS ALWAYS CLEAN, WHICH IS GOOD. BUT FOR SCHOOL SPIRIT, IT IS NON-EXISTENT. YES, THERE IS A NEW FOOTBALL TEAM, BUT THEY USE A HIGH SCHOOL TEAM'S FIELD TO PLAY FOOTBALL.

BUT LIKE IT SAID, MOST OF THE TEACHER'S ARE STEREOTYPICAL. FOR MY PSYCHOLOGY CLASS, THAT WAS THE MOST CONDESCENDING FEMALE TEACHER I EVER HAD. SHE BASICALLY TAUGHT THE CLASS BASED ON HER STEREOTYPES AND LIMITED VIEWS. SHE EVEN MADE A JOKE ABOUT INDIAN CAB DRIVERS, THEN PLAYED IT OFF. THE ASTRONOMY TEACHER BASICALLY PICKED AND CHOSE HOW HE GRADED HIS PAPERS. MOST PEOPLE CHEAT ON THEIR HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENTS, BUT FOR THE ONE WHO ACTUALLY TOOK THE TIME AND DID IT, I WAS GRADED HARSHLY.

STAY AWAY FROM THIS SCHOOL. IT IS NOT WORTH THE $34K A YEAR (WHERE DOES ALL THIS MONEY GO TO???). GO TO A STATE COLLEGE (FSU, UCF, USF, UF, ETC). YOU MIGHT EVEN BE BETTER OFF GOING TO A COMMUNITY COLLEGE. THIS PLACE IS A DUMP, AND YOU WILL REGRET, BOTH SOCIALLY AND ACADEMICALLY.