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All-round good'un.

Rating: 2/5 (98 ratings)
Introduction
The classes are pretty small. I think the biggest class you have has maybe 300 kids, but the professors get to know you pretty well so it's pretty good. The English classes are pretty relaxed – the professors are really nice at giving out good grades and they’re just not that intense – and they’re kind of a nice break from you’re other classes.

It can be really competitive if you want it to be - it’s hard to get an A, but if you’re OK with getting B’s and C’s everything’s pretty peachy.

Campus Life and Social Life
As being social chair in the dorm that entails planning most of the parties in the dorm – people are still able to throw individual room parties but if they invite everybody in the whole dorm we reimburse them – we do everything from Happy hours Friday afternoon to barbeques we do a huge concert here in the Spring we have a couple formals we do.

Greek life is really important. There are 27 frats I think, and 5 sororities. Most of the guys end up being in Frats – the great thing about this place though is that the parties are pretty much always open so you don’t have to be in a fraternity or a sorority to get in to the parties – I think most of the bigger schools that’s kind of the case – and every ones pretty welcoming – you know, you can walk into pretty much any Frat and just hang out and get to know the brothers – I mean so its pretty important.
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Academics
Most of the other colleges end up coming here to party which I think is really funny – we have a lot more relaxed alcohol policy so you know if campus police see you walking around drunk you don’t get picked up and hauled off or anything like that.

The campus is extremely diverse – you know where I’m from it’s not a really diverse place and you come up here and you hear all sorts of different languages when you’re walking around and you don’t really understand what people say. The one hard thing about the diversity up here is a lot of the professors and the grad students are foreign so sometimes it can be really hard to understand their accents in class. The TA’s are interesting – sometimes – its really luck of the draw, sometimes you get a really good one that really actually cares.

Student Body
Suicide Mondays are awesome. It’s really great that we get three day weekends – it’s needed most times.
Definitely in class it can get really obnoxious when there’s some kid that just has to insist on fighting with the professor and proving that there smarter and asking about things that we haven’t even covered yet.

In Closing...
On West Campus I’d say it’s a little less nerdy. There are more kids that played soccer in High School and went out and did fun things but depending on the living groups – I know stereotypically East campus tends to be a little maybe more unique I guess – those kids are absolutely brilliant but kind of on a different kind of life style path – I don’t know how to say that politely. But you can definitely find cool, normal people up here. You just got to know where to look.
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