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| Major: Religion/Religious (This Major's Salary over time) | | Gender: Male | This person cares more about Academic Success than the average student. | Intelligence:
Bright | | ACT: | | SAT: | | Lowest Rating
Academic Success D | Describes the student body mostly as:
Friendly, Afraid, Arrogant, ClosemindedDescribes the faculty mostly as:
Friendly, Helpful, Self Absorbed | Highest Rating
Faculty Accessibility A | How this student rated the school:
| Educational Quality | B- | Faculty Accessibility | A | | Useful Schoolwork | C- | Excess Competition | B- | | Academic Success | D | Creativity/Innovation | D | | Individual Value | C | University Resource Use | C | | Campus Aesthetics/Beauty | A | Friendliness | B+ | | Campus Maintenance | A- | Social Life | B- | | Surrounding City | B+ | Extra Curriculars | D | | Safety | C |
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Although
I attended SAGU via distance ed for one semester, I
lived on campus (my wife was a full time student)
for a little over 2 years all together, every member
of my wife's family is an alumni, I worked at
a place where over half the people my age were
students, and going to A/G churches in Waxahachie for the
last 7 years meant that I have been as immersed
in SAGU culture as one can be without being a
full time on-campus student. Here's the jest: this is NOT
a thinking person's school. If you are the type to
do what you're told, believe what you hear, and support
your beliefs without doing your own research, than you'll be
fine. Obviously, it's a religious school, and to get this
far, you probably already have your beliefs figured out, however
they came to be. If you are the type to
act on principle, challenge common views NOT because you're a
rebel but because you've thought them through, and consider yourself
an autonomous adult, look elsewhere for your higher education. None
of this is intended as insult, but this is a
sheltered environment, and people here are younger than their age
- not in maturity, but in experience. It's about 40
minutes away from anything significant, and you're pretty much surrounded
on all sides by extensions of the school - a
high concentration of A/G churches, SAGU alumni and drop-outs, and
people that essentially think and act the same way as
can be found at the school. Education wise, there is
arguably a priority placed on the denomination of the A/G
above that of the actual Bible - to major in
anything at SAGU is to minor in Bible, which is
good, but unless you major in Bible, you can only
take one of OT or NT surveys, because A/G Doctrine
and Polity has to be fit in - wouldn't it
be more appropriate to emphasize survey of the entire Bible,
then get to denominational specifics? Of course, there are entire
courses on specific parts of the Bible - Acts and
Corinthians, for just one example - that are required for
a non-Bible degree that give the impression that these books
may be a little more important than others in the
Bible. Another point about education: all to often, the emphasis
is on spiritual development over and above academics. Church is
a good place for spiritual development - not to say
that it can't be found elsewhere, but with a place
for everything and everything in its place, I'm severely distracted
from what I'm in class to learn when a professor
decides to pursue a classroom revival instead of focusing on
what we're supposed to be learning. God is a God
of order, and he has things set in their place
for good reason - the credibility of His people in
the eyes of the thinking unsaved hinge on their command
of their studies, which is hampered by classroom church sessions.
We have chapel and, again, our chosen church for this. One redeeming point: I took Bible Study with Dr.
Bartel. I'll forever use some of the things I learned
in that class - and not just in Bible study,
but in my study of many social subjects as well.
Very fond of his class - it was the most
challenging, and it was the one that reminded me that
I was in a place of higher learning.
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