RUN FOR THE BORDER

Introduction
I’m a senior in film and video studies, and I’m from Grandeville, Michigan.

Campus Life and Social Life
I went to Canada right when I turned 19 and it was absolutely insane.

You don’t want to get too drunk before you get back and cross the border and everything like that because they’re looking out for kids doing that kind of thing now.

My favorite bar here is Mitch’s. It’s both crazy and chill at the same time. If that’s possible, so I love it. It’s a good beer-drinking bar. Ashley’s is cool if you like all the different kinds of beer. They’ve got stuff from all over the world. If you’re more into the dancey frat boy, easty kind of thing, then you can go to Rick’s. That’s one of the more popular ones on campus. But that’s more of the dance club kind of thing. If you have a lot of money you go to Main street because there’s all kind of bars down there and they’re all really cool. Advertisement
Academics
In computer science majors, the work would kind of come all out at once, so you’d have a couple all nighters in a row and then you’d have a week where it’s just four or five days in a row you’d have to dedicate to it.

When I switched over to film, it became kind of my life because film’s one of those things that as much as you put into it, is as much as you’re going to get out of it. So constantly in projects and stuff like that. It pretty much took over completely.

When you are sophomore and a freshman you don’t get to know your professors that well, but once you get to your junior and senior year and stuff like that I started to get to know them pretty well. Especially when you’re hitting your senior year, you’ll go out to eat with them every once and a while. The film/video professors are really nice and they’ve become my friends. So that’s fantastic.

I think that when you’re in those kinds of science and techy majors you can probably get pretty cool research opportunities.

Student Body
I think there are snobby kids on every campus. There are the rich kids on this campus, I think like there is any other. Maybe more on this one because a lot of the out of state kids have rich parents who pay for everything. So you’ll see ‘em. But as long as your friend base is the kind of people you want to associate yourself with it’s not too much of a worry.

In Closing...
Pick you majors carefully, but make sure you love what you do. I guess my main advice for students coming here is just to meet as many people as possible and try to figure out who you want your friends to be. The sooner you have a social group, the sooner you can find out who you are. I think that’s the most important part about college is social development and if you end up leaving college and you don’t have any connections, any friends, its going to be an uphill battle all the way.