The State University of New York Binghamton

I transferred to Bing 2 years ago and it hasn?t really been a pleasant experience. The classes have a lot of pointless busy work with condescending professor. Word of warning, If you want to go pre-med, look elsewhere. The classes set you up to for failure, the pre-med students are annoying and contrary to popular belief, Binghamton isn?t that great of a school. I mean if you want waste four years of your life studying so you can attend university of sketch city in the Caribbean, go right ahead.

The campus looks like it was designed by blind architects taking a bet on who can create the ugliest and most impractical buildings. There?s tons of construction everywhere all the time. Just when you think it will end, more springs up. The surrounding city isn?t much to write home about. Vestal parkway has just about every suburban thing you need. There?s also a wegmans and a mediocre mall. The city of Binghamton has a few good restaurants but has seen much better days. Everyone goes out to the 3 overcrowded, dirty bars on state street and then complains how crappy the nightlife is compared to NYC.

Speaking of NYC, most of the students are either minorities from NYC or Jewish Long Islanders with a bunch international students thrown in for good measure. All of these groups only hang out with people exactly like themselves. If you?re not jewish, a minority or international and don?t play on a sports team and aren?t an uber nerd, you need to get extremely lucky to find people who will accept you. I have not encountered as much racism and discrimination as I have here in Bing. It?s definitely a huge reason of why I don?t really like it here.

The school is cheap but it?s super obvious the place is dirt poor. Its endowment is probably $5 Billy Baldwin gave to it out of pity. The money they do have they waste on constructing fugly, poorly built buildings and printer paper. The facilities aren?t that nice and a lot of the dorms and classrooms look dirty. The dining halls are the worst. They always smell really bad and are dirty. Not to mention, the food is disgusting. The school contracts out food service to a company called sodexo who overcharges everyone for 2 day old leftovers shipped from a local prisons. If you eat sodexo you will get food poisoning.

At the end of the day if you?re the type of person who buys imperfect carpet remnants at the local liquidator?s warehouse, you?re going to love it at Bing. If you want low prices, low quality, sketchy surroundings and weird people you can?t go wrong.