Champlain College

Date: Nov 20 2012
Major: English (This Major's Salary over time)
I may have high standards for my education, so if you like an easy college and your parents pay for your education, then feel free to go to Champlain because you probably won't have any complaints. Their so called, "Core Program" is a complete joke. Not only was it devised to keep students for all four years or MORE, the "Core" classes are absolute bull crap. As a Freshman, I had to take the core classes, "Rhetoric" and "Concepts of Self." Rhetoric is "kind of" like an English class except it's at the grade school level. I kid you not, the professor spent the first few days differentiating "they're," "their" and "there" and after those few days, she just talked about herself and gave us busy work. I seriously think she graded us with random numbers from the top of her head. There were no concrete guidelines or even agenda. And when I went to the dean to ask if I could skip Rhetoric I and take Rhetoric II because it was too easy, she said that "rules are rules" and she couldn't do anything about it, which is more bull crap because the faculty wrote the rules and the books! Champlain College didn't tell anyone that the mandatory "Core" classes would not be transferable because they were "MADE UP" by the Champlain faculty and the text books for those classes are also by Champlain faculty. They just wanted more money without giving the students any value to back it up. I don't even want to get started with my core class, Concepts of Self! I mean, the name says it all. It's BULL-CRAP! The classes pertaining to my major were passable as college courses, but the Core classes were killing me and everyone else who cared about their education. (We had to take ONLY two, no more, no less, for exactly four years, so if you failed one or you skipped one, then you'll have to stay longer. And this rule is only existent to make them money because there is no explanation for BULLCRAP courses of which can't even be taken for more than twice a year.) Champlain College does have a nice campus and they are very into recycling and being "green." Most of their buildings are LEED certified. The kids are mostly from Vermont and they are overall very friendly and naive. Even though Champlain College doesn't have sports, they do have a lot of extra-curricular and student activities. I took advantage of that. But since I pay for my college education by myself, I want a college that challenges me intellectually and I cannot pay for an overpriced college to learn nothing. The city of Burlington in Vermont is very quaint and small. There are a lot of outdoor activities and local shops and markets as well as Green mountains and Lake Champlain is beautiful too.