Marion Military Institute

Date: Aug 18 2013
Major: Criminal (This Major's Salary over time)
Started with the highest of hopes but left disappointed. School lacks resources for students struggling in class as I was. Library closed on weekends. Nothing after hours at all. The " all kinds of tutoring availability " that was promised did not exist. Only a few hours a week and that was only offered in the early afternoon. I had to fight my idiot wrestling coach to attend the few sessions I was able. School really seems to be in a state of decay. Motto seem to be , " what can we cut out this year?" Food may well have been the worst on a consistent basis I have ever experienced. High school lunches are fine dining by comparison. There are NO social or extra curricular activities. The town is dangerous and offers nothing. You are 30 miles from anything.

On a slightly more positive note, while still only a C or B minus student, this is the best I have done in school. Something to be said for actually being forced to attend every single class and being expected to rise early. My prior college experience before MMI was more like some of the students from the movie Animal House. I give the school some credit for making me more responsible and organized. Had the wrestling program not been circling the drain, due in large part to a pair of coaches who despite Olympic credentials are burned out and in dire need of retirement I may well have stayed 2 years and likely added a 5th semester rather than the 1 year I attended. School needs a major cash infusion and a return to military roots rather than the lip service now offered. A little house cleaning is in order to dump some dead wood instructors. If the school would replace the entrenched wrestling coaches and put together a real program with real coaches I would wager the sagging student enrollment would be boosted by at least a hundred wrestlers per year who had failed at their first attempt at a traditional school as I did.