Quinnipiac University

Date: Dec 30 2004
Major: Communications (This Major's Salary over time)
I just finished my first semester at QU and am now on winter break for 5 weeks, and I honestly can't wait to return to school. Everyone I have met there is friendly and approachable and I have made 10 close friends who I don't go a day without seeing. The academics there are great, and with a little effort it is very possible to do well there. I am a Mass Comm student and the resources at QU are amazing. There is the most updated technology possible. No matter what aspect of Communications a student is interested in there are extra curricular programs for you - anyone can get a radio show, write for the newspaper, work on the TV news station and more.

Many people feel that the school is too cliquey but thats because we have a smaller student body then a Northeastern or NYU would. People will find others that they connect with and stick with them - but no one that I have seen has ever turned anybody away from hanging out with them. Yes some people will be stuck up, but you will find that in any school. If you don't like someone, then just dont hang out with them, there will be plenty of people there that you do connect with. Also, people have said that there is much to do in the surrounding area of Hamden and New Haven, but if you look hard enough, there is as much to do there as anywhere else. There are movie theaters, restaurants, stores, clubs, bowling, movie theaters, etc. The campus is also directly across from the Sleeping Giant which is a mountain that is open and available for students to climb at any time, as is beautiful in the fall when the leaves arew changing colors. And there are things to do on campus as well if people are willing to commit to them. There are intramural sports to take part in, numerous clubs to join (which they have a fair for at the beginning of the fall semester to introduce them all to the students.) Yes people there do drink kind of often, but if your not into that then you can find plenty of people who also aren't and there is still ample opportunity to find other activities to take part in.