Florida State University

Date: Jul 11 2000
Major: English (This Major's Salary over time)
Bottom line: FSU is a waste of a LOT of money for nothing. Okay. What I expected was a decent state school. I lived in the same town as Florida State my whole life, so attending was the easiest choice. It was also the stupidest. Florida State is not a school. It is a fame-seeker. In all of their departments, be it Football, English or science, they only want glory and as such, monetary donations. Football and the Alumni come first, long before the students' convenience or even basic comfort. There is student parking for around 1000 cars in a school of 30,000+ students. The registration and information delivery systems are terrible and incomprehensible. As well, FSU fleeces its students in the most deceitful ways. While I was attending, they have added charges to previously free services such as printing transcripts (\(5 a copy), changed their policies to charge more such as parking permits (only available for entire years now, not per-semester as before), and begun simply stealing from the students (they now round up to the next dollar when they take your scholarship tuition payment electronically. They profited \).86 off me this summer. At 30,000 students, that's around $25,000 grand they are getting for free.) Faculty is laughable. If you ever get a real professor, and not a Teaching Assistant, you're likely to either be in a class of 250 students, trying to understand their accent or dealing with a superinflated ego. Students are inconsiderate b******s. 75% are going to school with daddy's money, driving new sportscars or SUVs with the bass system going, and getting drunk nightly. If this is your situation, you will love it here. You'll graduate a success, because the money you'll need will already be available. You really don't even need to come here. As for me, a student who actually wanted an education, my current plan upon December graduation is going to a trade school to learn something that might actually get me a job someday.