Quinnipiac University

Date: Dec 02 2004
Major: Design Arts - Industrial Design/Graphic Design/etc (This Major's Salary over time)
I will be entirely satisfied in leaving Quinnipiac University at the close of this semester, my third (plus the joke of a summer program I took part in through the Internet). I only wish I had gotten out sooner. For one thing, my major of eMedia within the School of Communications, which I declared upon acceptance into the university, is being discontinued and will continue to phase out. It has failed, even though administrators repeatedly told me last year that it was a sound program and that I need not worry about the future of my education. Now, the truth has been revealed and it sadly does not surprise me.

There is a highly superficial quality about Quinnipiac. Of course, the grounds are positively gorgeous in appearance, but the reasons why you should enroll into a school - for the academic programs and social life - are generally poor in my experience. Some of my classes have been quite satisfying, but they are unfortunately overshadowed in the ridiculousness of many of my other courses.

You will fit in well with Quinnipiac's social circles only if you easily assimilate into the most common college cliques. There is no short supply of clueless, vapid students who say like every other word and will drink themselves to excess at whichever party they manage to land at. There is no culture here, no sense of artfulness. Diversity rates have proportionally gone down over the past two years, not up as they have almost everywhere else. I would much much rather be friends with some of the professors since they are about the only sensible people walking campus. Even worse, I felt unsafe at times living in my freshman dorm last year. Gangs of drunk guys would heckle me (verbal abuse), throw things at me (trash cans), steal my clothes (then throw them into a running shower), etc. I suppose mostly because they felt they could. Plus, they must have been mean-spirited.

Quinnipiac is simply not worth tens of thousands of dollars a year, for these reasons and so many more I would tell you if I had additional space.