FIU is the Best Choice

Introduction
Welcome to Golden Panther country located in the heart of Miami only 11 miles away from our rivals University of Miami. FIU has a large student body (35,000+) with over 100,000 alumni which translate to a great deal of connections in the job marketplace once you graduate.

Campus Life and Social Life
You cannot come to FIU if you’re not a into having a social life. You can come here, but you’re not going to have fun. Because it’s insane, you have to be involved, you have to love, it. It’s craziness, everyone is social, it’s If you’re not into parties and activities, you can still have a good time here. To be honest, when I first got here, I wasn’t into parties and clubs myself. The fact that you’re a student here, there’s a big amount of pride being a FIU Golden Panther. Academics
If you’re into journalism, this is the school for you. We have an awesome, awesome, killer journalism school. You’re going to have access to being a producer, you can have access to being an anchor, to being a reporter. We have cameras, you’re going to take TV classes, they’re going to let you go out and film, you’re going to interview people, you’re going to get probably the best experience you could ever get as a Journalism major at this school. Mostly because we have all of the amenities you need to do it. We’ve got $13,000 worth of equipment which they put into your hands and let you go out and use it. It’s pretty laid back first year, just to crack you into school. But after that it’s going to start to get hard and the course load is going to start to get heavier and because of that you’re going to find yourself probably having to study a lot more and being a little more involved.

Student Body
As far as dating is concerned, sororities and frats tend to date each other. If you are not in one, usually the dating scene’s pretty hot, everybody meets out around clubs. The beach or Coconut Grove is a big place to meet people. You’re going to find all different kinds of dating scenes: there’s the gay scene, there’s the bi-lesbian scene, there’s also just the straight scene, which is just like everybody. You have to be outgoing to meet someone, you don’t just walk in and meet someone to date. Usually the dating scene is hot because everybody goes out and everyone thinks they’re hot so they want to meet somebody. You’re not going to find any frat guys walking around like they’re bums because they have a little dress code, I believe, because I always see the frat guys in their little nice khakis and their college shirts. Well, according to the books, they say 15% of FIU is Greek life. I’d say when you walk around, it feels like the whole school is Greek. I think every school you go to, there’s a drug scene, I mean this is America. The drug scene is pretty much, you’re not going to see it if you’re not a part of it. If you’re a part of the drug scene, you’re going to see the drug scene. If you don’t smoke, you don’t smoke, if you smoke marijuana, you smoke marijuana, if you drink, then you drink, if you don’t drink, you don’t drink. People really don’t base their friendships on how involved you are with that stuff. I’ll say that drinking and smoking and all that stuff is a big part of college anywhere you go.

In Closing...
If you like people, and you want to have a good time and you’re into partying, but at the same time, you know that academics is important to you, I can’t see why you wouldn’t come here. If you’re going to come to a public university, this is the best choice.

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