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Tour de Academia.Feb 26 '00 Write an essay on this topic.When I was looking into colleges towards the end of my Air Force career, I took a road trip and went and visited them all. I ended up looking at each of them, seeing how many classes they all offered, which campuses looked the most secure, which dorms looked the nicest, and of course, which one had the most girls. Enter Western State College. I walked into the admissions office to get enrolment information, and before my eyes was a stunningly gorgeous brown headed beauty that I swear made my heart skip a beat. Western it would be for me. I now attend school at Western. There are 5 guys to every girl, and I think maybe two of them I would take out on a date if I thought my friends would see me. The lesson: Looks can be deceiving. Here's what I would do if I were going to look at another college. I would take the tour they offer, and then as soon as they were done I would find a random student, and make them tell me as much as they knew about the campus as we walked along the same route. If that student tells you differently, make a note of it. If that student doesn't know, run like mad. A campus that is uninformed about itself is a bad sign. It means the students have no school spirit and aren't involved in their campus. If they know but tell you differently, check with other students. Here are the things that someone would know about Western if they asked me as compared to the tour, which I've actually given: The bowling alley that is in the student union does not work. All four lanes are broken, and even when they do work, they're terrible. The pool tables are junk. The sticks are bent, the felt needs replacing, the balls are chipped and even some are the wrong size. We have some snooker balls that seem to have made their way into our lives. The only club on campus worth joining, is the History Club. Nothing else has enough support to really be much fun. There's always SGA and similar stuff, but non-campus running clubs are in dire straits here. There's a bunch of other stuff, but you didn't come here to read about my campus. This is the type of stuff though that no tour guide will tell you. You'll have to ask the students here about that. You'll have to watch and observe for more than a day to find any hint that that's a problem here. The best thing to do when looking at colleges is to take more than one day per college, and go talk to the people who actually go there. They're the best people in the world to ask. Of course, everyone says bad stuff about his or her own school, but not everyone says the same bad stuff. Don't be shy. It's your future.  |
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