Freshmen cal poly student warning you not too come

Colleges & Universities Cal Poly San Luis Obispo
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<p>The OP has an interesting prospective. I’m not joining this bashing fest on her because she was just trying to give her honest opinion, whatever you think of her personally.
I’m a freshman at Cal Poly right now as well. </p>

<h2>I agree with her on some places, but here are my pro’s and cons for people considering cal poly- </h2>

<p>CON’S
-The campus food is just terrible.
-Changing your major is impossible almost.
-The ability to graduate in 4 years concerns many.
-Classes are difficult to get if you have a bad reg. date. GE’s always difficult.
-A good group of people aren’t serious about school here. Lots of drunken partying on the weekends and screwing around that i frankly didn’t expect to see. I feel as though if you don’t partake in this, you miss out to a LARGE extent on the social scene and making new friends.

  • The school is career based and geared towards engineering. For someone who has to go to graduate school and isn’t an engineer, this is little weird. Not a huge deal though if your on the ball about your curriculum.
    -Rich kids seem abundant </p>

<h2>-Classrooms are dated, equipment is old. </h2>

<p>PRO’s

  • the town of SLO is just amazing. Recently rated one of the happiest places to live.
  • Cal Poly and SLO are just happy places to be. I can’t really describe this feeling.
  • the weather is great
    -The racial “problem” doesn’t bug me at all. It’s just as diverse as other universities in my opinion.
    -I like the professors here so far and the classes. They are always willing to help out in office hours and are mostly qualified individuals.
    -People are generally nice, may not be the most friendly though.
  • The Quarter system is good.
  • I like how much hard work is involved to do well here.
  • The Cerro Vista apartments are nice.
    -Biking, running, everything for outdoors people is here!
  • The campus is pleasant and organized well, except for the construction :confused: . </p>

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<li>I’m sure i’m forgetting alot of pro’s. Even though there are some con’s for me, it’s still a great place to be and a great match for new students that are thinking of coming here. I definitely won’t be transferring, unless classes get extremely difficult to enroll in because of budget cuts or the likewise.</li>
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