The State University of New York Purchase College

Date: Sep 21 2011
Major: Other (This Major's Salary over time)
Though I have only been here for a month, I hate it. It's not even one of those things i just "have to get used too". This is not the place for me. Although, if you were a total weirdo reject in High School, you would love it here. Of course I knew I was entering an artsy place, and i thought that would be awesome. I figured everyone would be open minded, and really cool and friendly. But really, i walk around campus finding people staring at me, and judging me. It's weird, cause here it's like some sort of revenge. If you are an athlete/preppy, you will be stared at and frowned upon. If you aren't walking around barefoot or with green hair, you are seen as a weirdo. I belong in the city, not here. And when picking this school I figured it would be easy to get to the city. But no. The bus they provide is SO undependable, sometimes it just won't show up, and sometimes it will break down. By the time I actually get into Manhattan, it's about 2 hours after I left my dorm. Anybody can just walk onto campus, and if someone holds a door open for you, you can easily get into the dorms. The other day, random people from a few towns over got onto campus and got into dorms and stole laptops…creepy? Im in a freshmen dorm and it's dirty and gross. The bathroom hasn't had paper towels or soap since i've been here, and the showers are moldy. Though, the food isn't TOO bad, the hours suck. I can't get breakfast before class. I've been looking at schools to transfer to since i've been here. It really sucks, doing the process of researching and applying to schools, all over again. I wish I made the right decision the first time around. If you're thinking about coming here, come visit on a day when all the hippies are out on the quad smoking, get the real feel. Which reminds me, every single person smokes ciggs on this campus, except for me. I think it's about 95%. At night, when you pull up to the school or just walk around campus, you can smell weed. There are forts in the woods where people do drugs. A lot of people are on acid as well, and people got caught doing coke the other night. I think if you want to like it here, you have to do drugs to do so. My dorm window looks out on the quad, and people are out there screaming all night. it's so annoying and impossible to sleep. If you come here, and you're not a huge partyer and you like a good nights sleep, i'd suggest getting into Outback dorm. It's the wellness center, it's clean, it's bigger, there's AC in there, and 2 kids to a bathroom…rather than a whole hallway to 2 toilets… If you're going to come here, make sure you know what you're in for. I know I can learn to tolerate it here, for day by day im getting more used to it, but i know I will never love it here.