I
would like to say that I really thoroughly enjoyed my
first year here. As a freshman, not having a lot
of schoolwork is a great opportunity. People are usually looking
for meeting new people, and you are always welcome to
clubs & societies. This was my first month impression. Then
came the second semester of freshman year, and things started
to change. (Or I started to realize maybe..?) As an
international student, I can say that there is no such
thing as diversity at bucknell. It is just a utopia
that is being advertised as if it's real. About 90
percent of the campus is typical rich White Americans. This
situation directly affects the social life too. Socially, you have
to party like a White American, play long hours of
pong at downtown houses, or grind on a girl wearing
a spandex and flipflops to a party, listen to fratmusic.com.
It seems during the freshman year that joining a frat
is the only way out for guys, but it's not
even true. The only change is the people around you.
Also, I would like to note that there is
a strict cast-like system that governs the frat life. Richer
people will only hang out at richer frats, middle class
people will only hang out at middle class frats. For
girls, what adds on to this is how attractive you
look. If you aren't blond, there is something wrong with
you, if you don't have UGG boots, you've gotta be
kidding me, every girl in bucknell has UGG boots. This
is pretty much like an extended edition of high school.
Another word on architecture.. The campus really looks very neat
and clean, but inside the buildings is an architectural mess.
Whoever draw the floorplans of the older buildings is either
not an architect, or was still in grad school. The
newer buildings like the O'leary center, or THE KLARC GYM
are simply made for the inconvenience of the students. These
buildings resemble a small maze, you have to walk ridiculous
distances to get from point a to point b in
the gym, which could have easily taken you 10 steps.
The elevation of some floors don't match with others in
some buildings, so you randomly have to go two steps
down, pass through a door, and go three steps up
if you again want to go from point a to
point b.
Also, you should note that you as
a freshman will not be able to:
- Bring a
car to campus. We don't have enough car parking.
-
Join a frat/sorority
- Pick your own dorm /
roommate
- Pick your own meal plan (You have
to eat the horrible caf food for a high cost)
- Live downtown @your own house / rent a house.
- Party with the cool people (unless you know
the person who throws it) (this makes sense though, as
a measure of risk reduction / not giving alcohol to
random minors)
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