An Actor Speaks

Introduction
I chose this school for the acting conservatory. An Arts student pursuing Dance, Visual Art, Acting, Creative Writing and Dramatic Writing will find Purchase to be a challenging but enlightening experience. As for the Liberal Arts students on this campus, there are some spectacular professors and great opportunities, but also a tendency to find too much time on your hands and too many illegal drugs in your back pocket.

Campus Life and Social Life
For the arts conservatory students, time is limited. Fridays and Saturdays can be spent walking around and engaging in the age-old red-cup-in-hand evening, but weeknights are spent behind closed doors. Liberal Arts students find more time to party, whether it be a Tuesday, Wednesday, or made up holiday. I know this because they live above me and have fallen on the ground drunk so many times my ceiling light spent the night in bed with me once. Advertisement
Academics
The workload for the actors is very heavy, dancers have classes and rehearsals everyday including Saturdays and Sundays. Some great professors teach the History classes on campus, and some in other areas, but the good always come with the fucking terrible.

Student Body
A lot of students, especially the Liberal Arts students are from New York because Purchase is a state school and definetely cuts down the cost for in-state residents. As for the student population, we range from black to white to gay to football ass-slapping womanizers to nerds to pirates who fight each other with swords in the night...to the ratio of few women: huge number of men. But don't come to SUNY Purchase seeking love, because unless you're in love with the bottle, there isn't much there to choose from.

In Closing...
Anywhere you are, you'll have moments of ecstasy and moments of the opposite, so in choosing a school, don't necessarily leave after one semester because it doesn't work right away. Just give it time and eventually you'll get used to the place.