Emerson College Sucks

Introduction
Ok, I came here Freshman year of college because it was the only place I got in. I only applied to three schools, and got nixed by UT because I fucked up my application. I transferred out and now I'm doing my first semester at UT and love it.

If you're from the northeast, insanely liberal, very driven and an expert in a certain field, and looking to get into show biz, Emerson is a great place for you, go for it. Otherwise, leave it the hell alone.

Campus Life and Social Life
The social life here, at least for me, was abysmal. I'm from Texas, and most of the kids from around the area (mostly New England) tended to label me as a dumbass and a neo-conservative (which I am not) just because of that.

There are typically only one or two parties going on per weekend, and they are usually way the hell far away from campus, meaning you have to spend a fortune in subway and taxi money, or walk in the freezing snow and rain. Typically these parties suck, too. Since Emerson is so small, house parties tend to have nearly the entire school there, so it's overcrowded and beer runs out way too fast.

Let me say this: women at Emerson=ugly. That's the long and the short of it. There are a few notable exceptions, but the overwhelming majority of Emersonian women are loud, annoying, fat, ugly bitches. Typically they are ultra-feminist too, not that there is anything wrong with being a feminist, but these are the type who think feminism equates to thinking that every man is the devil, and that being "independent" means being a total bitch to everybody, and going around with a chip on your shoulder. Also, there is a tiny Greek scene at Emerson and the few girls who are in the sorority, the token "hot girl" squads tend to think they own the fucking place, when they are really just idiotic bitches.

I know this sounds like Texas dumbassery, but this school is really waaaay too liberal. I'm not talking about liberal in the sense that they want to better everything and make America great again, I'm talking about the twenty-first century fashion-liberals, who are liberal because they think its cool and do nothing but bash everything anybody even remotely conservative does. The people at this school are fucking snobs. They look down on anybody who they deem to be less informed about politics, music, or art. I once was talking to somebody and when they asked where I was from I said "Texas". They said "That's too bad" and when I asked why they said "because Texas sucks. George Bush is from there." and they were being completely serious too.

A lot of the kids are really immature, and seem to look for some sort of drama in their lives. People are either really high-strung and intense or smoke so much pot they don't do anything at all but sit around listening to bad indie bands and talk about dada.

I had a terrible, terrible time at this school.

Also, the TAs are insanely strict about EVERYTHING, people get busted for drinking and pot all the goddamn time.

Also, Boston is depressing as hell. There's almost nothing to do if you're under 21, except go to shows, and that gets expensive. Everything is more expensive in Boston, it's cold and dreary all the fucking time, and people are jerks. The stereotype of the northeast is not faulty, people treat each other like shit, are loud, obnoxious, ignorant, and racist. I seethed every time somebody accused me of being a racist because I was from the south when I heard some guy on the street yelling "go home China" to a Chinese girl not twenty minutes ago. If it weren't for the Red Sox and clam chowder, nobody would live in Boston: it blows.

There is no campus: it's about three cement buildings. You always have to climb countless flights of stairs or wait nearly ten minutes for every elevator to come. The dorm rooms are old office buildings, so some dorm rooms are huge and some are tiny. The beds fucking suck, and it's always noisy outside, so it's hard to get to sleep. I developed insommnia there for three months, until I started taking natural sleeping supplements.

Boston is like New York, only if New York was really lame and had nothing to do. Advertisement
Academics
If you want to go into something like the technical side of filmmaking or art, this is a good place to do it. If you want a more broad liberal arts education, go somewhere else. This school is way too specialized, and the classes are way too free-form. A lot of the times your entire grade will be based on some bullshit final project that's along the lines of "a creative project that evokes the aesthetics of whatever art period blah blah blah". You can do absolutely nothing here and get A's, but you won't learn anything.

Student Body
Guys:

There is a very big gay population at Emerson, about half the student body. I have no problem with gays, but it can get annoying when you get on the elevator after your 9AM class and there are a buch of dudes singing showtunes at the top of their lungs (yes this actually happened to me). Gay or straight, look for really tight jeans, spiky, practiced messy hair, and t-shirts with obscure band names on them. Nearly everybody is heavily into film and music, and they will make it very clear that they know more about it than you do, and disdain you for not knowing anything. I wasn't a big jock in high school or anything, but this school brings to mind a college completely full of the kids in high school that everybody hated because they were annoying little whiners who just sat around and talked about how phony everybody in high school was. If Holden Caufield founded a school, it would be this one.

Girls:

Either overcompensatingly feminist, ugly bitches who always get in your face about everything, or really lame girls who sit in their rooms all the goddamn time and like to have "sleepovers" and watch Say Anything on a saturday night while eating Ben and Jerry's. LAME.

Also: peopl are really, really, really phony. Everybody will pretend to be all smiles and get along, but nobody ever wants to hang out, or call, or anything. They're also just...boring. Nobody ever really does anything except go to the lame parties and stand around sipping beer talking about retarded shit. There is no campus community, and everybody is always looking out for number one.

I hate the northeast.

In Closing...
Don't go to school here unless you're an asshole. It's way too expensive for the low quality of instruction you receive, horrible facilities, and lack of any campus. Go further south, and save your money.