Marietta College

Date: Nov 14 2013
Major: Psychology (This Major's Salary over time)
From the outside looking in,this looks like a beautiful, open minded and brilliant education facility. But please, don't be fooled. Never in my life have I encountered so many depressed, unhappy, venting and otherwise, hopeless attitudes from students as I have here. It's depressing simply to interact with students because most of the comments they make are negative in some aspect. The professors are good people for the most part, but it's the type of system the college embraces, liberal arts education, that creates a tense sense of constant struggle and pressure or failure is close at hand. It's not correct for all classes to be of equal value in relation to your major, or even equal effort demanded, when they are otherwise irrelevant and required. If you must require them, at least give the students a break on them and let them enjoy the liberal education, not curse ever having shown an interest outside of their major. Some professors are too absorbed in the belief that all students must sacrifice all personal time specifically to worship their class and subject, and are occasionally too arrogant or close-minded that any suggestions or hypotheses from students are ignored or rudely cast aside as inferior. This is not the sort of environment and value in our future of America we should be creating; making students feel small with the constant reminders that "they know nothing", if that is so, what is the point of college. Give them self respect, let them know they are at least by this point on their life of some intellectual value and weight. I have had many great experiences here, but equally, perhaps outweighed, far too many poor ones.