Popped-collar polo shirt. Pink Pearls and polos.

Introduction
The second I drove onto the campus I knew Miami was for me. It was a beautiful, sunny day and it’s just like the most gorgeous campus you’ve ever been to.
Oxford is Miami. I mean it’s its own little bubble. You have to go 40 min. to find like a mall or like anything outside of Oxford. So that’s not the greatest. I guess we go to Cincinnati a lot. People are bored so they drink. I grew up in a pretty small town, but I was like 20 minutes outside NYC, so I always had that readily available when I got sick of the small town. So that’s hard here because there’s nothing. I mean Cincinnati’s not, I mean, I can’t even consider that a city basically, it’s nothing like NY, so if I want to like go see a show, I mean, Cincinnati has stuff like that, but it’s not the same and it was hard for me at first to be stuck in a bunch of cornfields.


I would say Artsy people would hate Miami…we call them “people in Western,” but they tend to be bitter towards everyone else. Miami’s like a big high school. Like people have their own little cliques…So if you liked high school, you’ll probably like Miami. Coming from the East Coast, I expected it to find really stuck up people to hang out with, but my housemates are all from the Midwest and they’re all just really relaxed and down to earth and nothing like my friends at home. Most of my friends I lived with my freshman year in my quarter of my dorm, and also through my sorority.

The usual happening is you go to the bar, you get out, and you go get some food. Usually a house party will go on afterwards or some Frat Annex party will be late night and you just go there and hang out.

Campus Life and Social Life
I wanted to do communications when I got here, but they didn’t tell us that you have to take an entrance exam. They changed the entrance rules to the communications department my actual year coming into Miami. So, I knew I wanted to do communications but I didn’t think I would have the right requirements to get in so I actually changed my major like twice, but at the end I realized communications is just something I really wanted to do so I’m hope fully back doing Communication major taking the entrance exam this fall.

Miami Plan sucks. Basically, it’s a bunch of core classes that you have to take that you’ve no interest in whatsoever and they are just there to screw up your GPA, what it did to me and you have no interest in those classes therefore, you have no motivation or drive to study for them. I’m a communications major. I could really care less about Geology. I have it strategically planned out that most classes you can miss about 3 a semester. So, I miss, my 3, I’ll put it that way, but I won’t miss more than it counts, when it starts taking away from your grade, I won’t miss those. I’m not really in my specific major yet so I’ve only taken the big lectures, but I’ve loved them all. I’ve actually gotten good grades in them. So that shows if you are motivated to work for something that you want to do, you can actually like achieve it. They’re all really big lectures, though, probably over 200 in each of my classes. Advertisement
Academics
As much as I don’t like most of my professors and I don’t think they’re bad teachers, everyone’s open for office hours. Everyone makes it clear they are open for office hours. They give certain office hours, you can come in any time. I had a Botany TA who was from Nicaragua and I could not understand a word he said the entire class and it was the most frustrating thing, but they tend to grade easier.

There are about 2 career fairs each semester and you can send in your resume and offer to get internships or jobs, but the problem I had with them is basically, most of them are based out of Cincinnati or Chicago and they don’t offer a lot on East Coast. So I found it pointless because I don’t want to intern—spend my summer in Cincinnati or Chicago. So it’s hard if you want to find an internship on the East Coast.

Student Body
Living off campus, when the streets are dark and the alleys are dark, we try not to walk by ourselves. Like me and my housemates always try to make sure we’re together, but I think it’s very underplayed because you don’t want all these incoming students to see all this, all the rapes and stuff that happened. But it happens on every campus and you just got to be careful and know what to do and what not to do.

Weather sucks. Ohio has the weirdest weather in the entire world. It could be sunny and beautiful out and then 10 minutes later it will start to rain. It has the most inconsistent weather. It’s pretty much, you get all 4 seasons, but it seems to rain a lot more than other places.

But the dorm was a really good experience for me. I got really close to my whole corridor at the end, even though I was probably in one of the smallest rooms on-campus, it still worked out fine, I wouldn’t change that for the world.

We couldn’t un-bunk our beds most people can freshman year or a lot of them can and our desks were sitting right next to each other. We had a fridge right in the middle of our desks and that was pretty much all our whole room. We couldn’t really have friends over. If they wanted to they had to sit on the floor. There’s no place to put an extra chair. The closets are tiny, don’t bring as much clothes as you have because you’ll never fit it all in there, but it really just depends on where you get placed freshman year.

In Closing...
See, I read that we have like the top 20 best foods of the campuses, but I don’t think it’s good at all. They have a lot of stuff to offer, but it gets really boring, the same stuff over and over again. Freshman year there was really only one dining hall we really went to so it got really old after a while. Basically in the town, all there is to eat is Mexican or sandwiches. There’s about 50 Sub Shops and about 6 Mexican restaurants. Which is even worse, because it offers no diversity in terms of food.

It’s another of Miami’s known for not having any diversity whatsoever…Minorities usually hang out together, it’s like known. If you’re a minority you can pretty much get money from Miami, so that’s good. So if you want to get some money it’s a good place to go…they’re trying to make it more diverse. But I don’t see that happening in the nearby future.

There are a fair # of virgins. My roommate’s a virgin. So it’s all about morals whatever you believe. Some guys find that hot, so. You’re in the middle of corn fields. There’s really not much else to do besides drink and go to the bars and then go to a frat. That’s pretty much all there is to do in Miami.