George Mason University

Date: Dec 31 1969
Major: Chemistry (This Major's Salary over time)
DO NOT GO HERE! ESPECIALLY FOR CHEMISTRY!!! (1) Graduate academic advisor did not answer any e-mails/phone calls regarding admission. Was not able to get TA position because I accepted late, but decided to attend anyway. (2) Received fairly prestigious fellowship. Had to use it to fix broken equipment or buy new equipment. (3) Classes were easy, people cheat, and I didn't learn anything new…at least not in the amount I was paying. (4) At one point I had a resident advisor position. Department told me they would give me a TA position. I quit the the RA position to become a TA. They changed their minds after I quit. -_- (5) After that, another opportunity came up where I'd be able to teach 3 classes (same as a TA), but offered less than a third of the compensation. (6) The person that took over those classes was then compensated for the TA amount…department was trying to pinch pennies and take advantage of my fellowship even though they didn't give me anything my first year. (7) GRADUATE students here forget how to convert between degrees Celsius and Kelvin. Shoot me. (8) Classes are fairly easy, but people cheat and that screws up the curve sometimes. Don't worry about getting anything less than a B for most professor though. (9) Research here is in a really bad state. No funding unless you're maybe in one of the biochem labs. Students here have to buy their own chemicals. (10) There's more, but I think you get the idea…DO NOT GO HERE. LEARN FROM ME, PLEASE. It is better to find a job as a technician than do go here and have your money sucked away from you.