Johns Hopkins University
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Educational Quality | A | Faculty Accessibility | A- |
Useful Schoolwork | A | Excess Competition | A- |
Academic Success | A | Creativity/ Innovation | B+ |
Individual Value | A- | University Resource Use | B+ |
Campus Aesthetics/ Beauty | A- | Friendliness | A |
Campus Maintenance | B- | Social Life | C |
Surrounding City | C+ | Extra Curriculars | B+ |
Safety | A- | ||
Describes the student body as: Friendly, ApproachableDescribes the faculty as: Friendly, Helpful |
Lowest Rating Social Life | C |
Highest Rating Educational Quality | A |
Major: Mechanical Engineering (This Major's Salary over time)
I really like it here. I'm an engineering student, but I chose Hopkins because of what it had in addition to engineering. Most of the Humanities are very strong, so I knew that if I had a change of heart, or just wanted to take some quality electives, Hopkins would deliver. The classes and the homework have often been very difficult, but not unfairly so. I've never had a single experience where another student acted cutthroat, or know a person who has encountered an experience like that, so that myth should be thrown out. I love the Mechanical Engineering Department here. I know and am friendly with almost all of the MechE students in my class, and any one of them would be willing to help me out if I needed a hand with some homework. My advisor is extraordinarily nice and helpful, and so far I've liked all of the Engineering Professors. Academically the only thing negative has been my Calculus courses, which were a big frustrating mess due to poor Professors and Textbooks. Try to AP out of as much Calculus as possible!Living here has it's ups and downs. I have thought the campus was beautiful since the first time I saw it: White marble over red bricks, red brick walkways, nice quads, and it even looks better at night with the spaced lamps and lit clocktower. Baltimore has a lot of blue sky, especially compared to where I'm from, which adds to the whole feel. I have many friends here, and as a sophomore, continue to make more as this semester goes on. The social life isn't too great, but it's not particularly bad. Joining club sports or organizations helps, and there is always something going on somewhere. Now lots of people like to bitch about the administration, but they get things done. Last year security complaints starting turning up, to which the administration made a list of solid changes, and they've completed all of them. Currently, constrution's going on all around campus as a new dorm, cafeteria, book store, parking garage, quad, and admissions center are being built. Then the University bought large parts of the surrounding neighborhood and subcontracted new apartments, all to improve housing. This school just keeps getting better. The food still sucks, though.Overall, Hopkins is very hard, and requires a lot of energy and drive, as well as an ability to accept academic setbacks whereas most of the incoming students glided through High School. The difficulty of this place never goes away. But I feel very grateful; I graduated from a large, lower-middle class High School, and now I'm able to study at an elite school, in a great department, with other students I like, and Hopkin's huge endowment is paying for most of my education!