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| Major: Mechanical Engineering (This Major's Salary over time) | | Gender: Male | This person cares more about Academic Success than the average student. | Intelligence:
Average | | ACT: | | SAT: 600 | | Lowest Rating
Excess Competition F | Describes the student body mostly as:
Friendly, ApproachableDescribes the faculty mostly as:
Friendly, Arrogant, Unhelpful, Self Absorbed | Highest Rating
Campus Maintenance B+ | How this student rated the school:
| Educational Quality | C- | Faculty Accessibility | C- | | Useful Schoolwork | D | Excess Competition | F | | Academic Success | F | Creativity/Innovation | D | | Individual Value | F | University Resource Use | C+ | | Campus Aesthetics/Beauty | C | Friendliness | C | | Campus Maintenance | B+ | Social Life | C- | | Surrounding City | D | Extra Curriculars | B+ | | Safety | B- |
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If
your going into engineering this place isn't bad, but there
are some things you should know. You must be good
at math because most of the math department speaks english
(my teacher was from Greece, my room mates was from
Russia, and my neighbors was from Japan). In intro to
engineering the teacher is very intimidating and expects you to
know everything and win the nobel prize. I am given
homework with questions about things I have never seen in
my entire life, not even in class. A big turn-off
in intro to engineering is the fact that 50% of
your grade is your final project. I have english twice
a week and have to have a new essay written
almost every time I show up. Some teachers are nice
friendly people that you can go to for help while
others are just there as T.A.'s (teachers assistants) and could
care less if you understand it. I've been to study
sessions and they are horrible the teacher was a T.A.
and didn't really know his stuff. I have yet to
try the tutoring but it wont be long because the
stuff you learn in class isn't the stuff on the
tests. Theres not much in town, a mall, a bunch
of strip malls, a few bars, restraunts, and chain stores.
On the weekends the major activity is, no surprise, drinking.
You can stay in your dorm or pay 5 dollars
and get into to a frat (probably the funnest thing
I've ever done! theres a little bit of sarcasm there).
I'm in the ski and board club and thats the
only thing I look forward to other than the weekend. LAGNAF! The people are nice, but as usual you have
some who walk around campus with a cold look on
their face. If you want an internship you have to
be persistant and go every day.If your looking for a
job when you graduate, a speaker told me he had
an internship freshman, sophomore and senior year both summer and
winter breaks and was certified for everything prior to graduation,
he was also in almost all of the engineering clubs.
The campus has a newspaper which often advertises studies you
can participate in and get paid, they also advertise jobs.
I really wish I went to a small engineering school
in a city (but I dont think one exists which
I could get into) or one with better help resources
because from what i've seen so far, this school isn't
really worth it. It is probably only going to drag
down my GPA and kill my chances of transfering. Good
luck with your choices and what you see on the
outside isn't always whats on this inside. Spend a night
here or anywhere before making that school your choice, I
kick myself all the time for not doing it.
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