Not Exactly a Diverse Campus

Introduction
There’s not a whole lot of diversity. I know lots of people from all sorts of states that go to A&M Galvaston, but A&M college station, I know someone from Colorado and actually I know a guy from Nigeria, I work with a guy from Nigeria, that’s about it.

Campus Life and Social Life
The community is so accepting of us and it’s just like a giant family here so that’s pretty much what being an Aggie is to me, it’s knowing you’re going to be at a home away from home. That’s kind of how it is here. It’s either you just fit in immediately and you love it and I know a lot of people coming here expecting not to like it and they just fall in love with the campus, fall in love with the people and they stay here, but some people come and they really wanted to come to A&M and they just find it’s not really how they liked it. Generally speaking, most people I know pretty much dig this place. Advertisement
Academics
You do kind of feel like a number. But it gets better because as you find your niche and find out where you fit into it, it really doesn’t get that way and you kind of start to get a more personal connection with people, with professors just as you go along. It’s competitive because there are so many people here that are very well-educated and wanting to be even more so and be the top of their class that you’re always going to be like right underneath that curve. It’s very competitive, but that’s a good thing also because it makes you do a little better. In the classes where there’s just hundreds of people. You’re going to have a lot of reading to do and a lot of figuring it out on your own kind of stuff because you’re basically going to have like 3 or 4 tests first semester and those are going to be your grades. You might have a lot of reading but you’re not going to have a lot of grades to turn in.

Student Body
Political views are pretty conservative. It’s a pretty homogenous group, we’re all very pretty much conservative, but it’s not THAT bad, everybody here basically comes from the same type of background. Most people here are from Texas, actually. Religion is actually pretty big here. A lot of people pretty much go to church every Sunday. I mean there are huge crowds of them. There are probably 4 or 5 churches on Northgate, right by the bars. And a couple spread throughout the campus. I mean they’re of every denomination. There’s a huge Catholic group here. You got a lot of protestant, just there’s a lot of religion stuff going on here and there’s a couple of actually non denominational churches. So if you don’t feel like choosing something, it just kind of caters to everyone.

In Closing...
A&M is real big on school spirit; we are the home of the fine Texas Aggie 12th man. It’s real big; our football stadium always completely full, all of our basketball games, all of our stuff is just really full. We have a lot of school spirit here. Campus is covered in Maroon. Texas is football. I mean that’s all there is to it. If you don’t like football, you’re going to have to learn to like it or find something you like just as much because football is everywhere. It’s just like A&M is like the giant Texas high school for football. I mean everybody comes out literally, the town shuts down on days that it’s football.