SUNY MARITIME COLLEGE IS A GREAT PLACE TO BE FROM NOT TO BE AT. This place is run by incompetent
lackadaisical individuals who could careless about your well being.
if you are a license student you must be part
of a regiment of cadets, basically a pseudo military atmosphere,
some of these people really believe they are in the
military and think there saving the world. some students
are rotc, reservist, etc; little effort is given to the
fat that many of them wake up everyday at around
445-5am and have federal obligations, yet the regiment thinks that
is bs and doesn't matter. little regard is given
to the fact that they wake up early and barely
have time to fit breakfast shower etc in before 8am
class, yet little slack is given to them. basically
the regiment is broken and falling apart and every week
theres new rules that are implemented and changed when ever
the powers at be decide. opt and if you
are a hard working individual who is paying for school,
good luck trying to get work liberty, nobody wants to
work with you or meet you half way, after all
they just want your money and time. god forbid
you have a struggling family and you can barely afford
textbooks, notebooks, tuition, etc your a horrible person for
wanting liberty to work and help support yourself as well
as your family who lives paycheck to paycheck. as
far as academics go, I'm a Marine transportation major with
a deck license, the school has moved away from license,
which is the primary reason people go to this school.
instead of taking license classes that are imperative to
your knowledge and training as a professional mariner, they make
you take classes like calc I, calcII, financial management financial
accounting, and many useless humanity electives which do nothing for
your personal development or professional development. oh and you have
to take physics, which in my book makes no sense
because you take uscg license classes stability and trim, stability
and trim for tanker as well as stability and construction,
which is physics for the mariner, so you basically take
about 15-25 credits that are useless and take up your
time as well as effort because you'll never use it;
rather than take additional license classes that will help with
your training for being a mariner. the professors in
the license classes are well educated, intelligent and extremely helpful,
where as your classes for your major, the professors are
arrogant, nasty and don't help, many of the license classes
are harder yet fulfilling, some you need a 90 just
to pass, but an average of a 70 to pass
and i mean you need to put the effort is
or your done for. where as your non-licnese classes
wonder why you could careless about there class and just
ant to barely pass. and if you took ap
and college courses in hs, chances are they will say
they take the credits at an open house, but when
you try to get them to transfer, it won't happen,
seems like bs, especially considering those ap classes were ay
harder than the classes her math physics, us history etc,
they won't take those credits, and even though you did
great in that class in hs, you'll barely pass because
your more concerned with passing your license class.
alll in all the place is great to get your
license except for all the bs you put up with,
the registart and student accounts are a bunch of jackasses,
they say you owe them a few grand then the
next thing you know your get a refund check for
what they say you owed them, and they do this
because they can put the money in an account and
collect interest of your money and take the interest, so
BS. they never schedule enough classless for a sister,
meaning you can't follow the curriculum for you major and
you'll probably have to be force signed in to that
class which is already over crowded. there is not
nearly enough classrooms or housing. yet they take more
and more students in and wonder why people take it
upon themselves to live off campus. the housing hear
sucks, non of the rooms are in great living standards,
the mattresses are crappy and falling apart as is th
room and furniture. the heat barely works, the ac
if you live in new dorms barrel works, most of
the windows are falling apart and falling out. the
bathrooms are disgusting and moldy, to the point where with
a cleaning crew that cleans them every day, i still
clean mine myself because it is so disgusting, the shower
curtains look like they've been here since the 70's with
mold and mildew. rather than put in granite curbs
and fancy brick walk ways which are falling apart invest
the money into housing and classrooms.
the it department sucks
here, the internet is so slow and will boot you
off randomly, it took me 2 trys to put this
up, owe and they limit the websites you can access,
so guys, theres no girls and even worse you can't
look at them online and that random girl you meet
at a bar or your gf can't bring them to
stay the night. no overnight guest.
I've never seen so
much misallocation of funds, like the finds to the football
team, which sucks. all i can say is the
new college president sucks, she micro manages and nasty and
thinks she is still in the navy, she doesn't realize
this isn't the navy anymore. rather than lobby for the
school she's more concerned with kicking people out, running the
regiment and micromanaging everyone else's and telling them how to
do there own job, maybe she should do her own
job. and I'm not saying this because she's a
woman. if she was a guy, id still say
the same thing. good luck finding parking on campus
too. they give out more passes than spots and
ticket you for every little thing.
there no
wonder why people desert this place on the weekends, it
sucks, the food sucks and is bad for you, the
people suck, the maintenance men suck(there like special ed jack
asses as are the meal service employees.) job placement
isn't 100% any more mainly due to the outsourcing of
maritime jobs. basically i wish i went to kings
point a federal service academy, would have got more for
less and would have been trained a professional mariner just
as good.