<p>Unless this has been made in the past, I thought this would be an interesting thread to start on this forum. Basically, each poster puts the name of their college and then adds a number from 1-100 that represents how happy they are, overall, at their school with 1 being the most unhappy and 100 being the happiest. I thought this would be an interesting way to see how happy students are at their college and could possibly help prospective students when observing feedback from current college students at specific schools. People are allowed to post comments along with their 1-100 score of their happiness at their school. </p>
<p>Every once in a while, I will post back with a results post of the averages for each college that has been mentioned on this thread in an order of happiest to unhappiest with the number of posts next to the average. </p>
<p>Please be realistic with these happiness scores. This means that a 12 out of 100 states that you are absolutely miserable at this school and that you truly wish you would rather be anywhere else on the planet instead of your school. This means that a 95 out of 100 states that this school has been more than you could ever dream of and has been the best thing that has ever happened to you where nothing could change the fact that this school is better than life itself. Get the idea?</p>
<p>Let me know about any concerns, questions, or comments. Thank you and please DON’T criticize other schools that aren’t your own.</p>
<p>I will start the survey with my own rating of my happiness in college.</p>
<p>College: UC San Diego (first year)
Happiness Score: 85
Comments: Overall I am happy at this school and I am glad with my decision. I am a premed which takes a lot of time out of my schedule and leaves limited room for fun and relaxing but I feel that I am getting a great education and at the same time retaining a social life and getting involved.</p>
<p>College University of Oregon
Happiness Score : 20
Comments: Made the wrong choice in choosing the local in state college , Sure it made sense since I wanted to major in Business. Yes the Football games are ok if your a Duckfan . The weather sucks and its always overcast or raining here. The dorms are small . Class sizes are too big , the teaching in most classes isn’t that good .</p>
<p>College: UC Davis
Happiness Score: 90
Comments: Fun campus, quaint town, nice people. I like that I have a lot of flexibility with the classes I take because the GEs are not that much (I’m double-majoring in linguistics and english [emphasis in creative writing] with a minor in latin). Most of my professors have been really fantastic (a few duds, but eh, what can you do? There are bound to be some at every school). My creative writing instructors in particular have been fantastic. Sometimes classes run a little large, which is my main complaint, but once you get into upper-division seminars and such they shrink quite a bit. And sometimes the weather here isn’t the greatest (constant rain in the winter and ridiculously hot in the summer), but fall and spring are usually gorgeous. Overall, it’s been a really, really great place for me, even though I was skeptical at first because UCs typically place such a great emphasis on the sciences, but I’ve been proved wrong and I find the humanities/social sciences to be excellent. Good times. :)</p>
<p>comments: i was pretty miserable at caltech but it is still the best place in the world and i can’t think of any school that would suit me better. it’s an intense place but the community is very tight-knit and we do a lot of fun stuff. where else do you make ice cream with liquid nitrogen?</p>
<p>and to answer fizix2’s question: pretty much any other school that gives students access to LN2? I’ve eaten MIT’s liquid nitrogen ice cream before and Harvard’s so far…</p>
<p>I am in high school (aww man im N/A for this :() </p>
<p>I hope my colleges are good. I am hoping to do business management at either UW-Seattle, UT-Austin, UIUC, IU-Bloomington, UVA, or UW-Madison. This month is basically judgment day for me, so I can’t wait to find out my decisions. </p>
<p>BTW HS stinks now. Everyday is boring as hell; I wanna go to college!</p>
<p>Michigan State
Happiness Level: 90
Comments: So much to do!!! Always many events going on near campus, whether its parties, concerts, sporting events, cultural celebrations, clubs etc. East Lansing is a great college town. I enjoy the breadth of choices for classes, the school spirit is amazing, and my profs are all pretty good. Living in the dorms, I made lots of great friends, have an awesome roommate, and college is pretty much exactly what I hoped for (coming out of high school). The main factor preventing me from being 100% happy is the fact that I am broke, all the time, and must work like a slave in order for me to avoid drowning in 50K in debt.</p>
<p>Carnegie Mellon University during undergrad
Happiness Score: 85
Comments: Pittsburgh was a great city to go to school in, CMU had fantastic people to meet, and the classes were top notch. The only thing dragging it down was the subpar campus food, dorms, and their inability to salt sidewalks properly during the winter.</p>
<p>Caltech for grad school
Happiness Score: 20, expected to go up to about 75 after candidacy in the spring
Comments: Campus is nice, professors are friendly, but the classes are absolute garbage. I’d learn a lot more just getting an apartment in Newport and reading on the beach for six hours a day (instead of doing problem sets all day/night in my office).</p>
<p>UW Madison
95
Really nice people and so much to do. Only downside is the weather but that just leads to drunken snowball fights. I don’t think I’ve been bored since I’ve been here.</p>
<p>UIUC (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
Happiness Score:88
Why?: Top 3 in physics, and top 5 in engineering. The departments are both wonderful and you have a lot of flexibility in pursuing what you want to do (not classes, I mean internships, extracurriculars and such). We’re in the middle of a corn field so housing, food, clothes, and everything is moderately priced. It’s nothing like going to university of Chicago and paying out the butt for everything because it’s in the city. Dorms are ok but almost everyone moves off-campus after sophomore year and the food is sort of ‘ehhhh’. It’s edible but it’s no three-course gourmet meal. Plus, I go to school almost for free because of aid and scholarships. Wooo!</p>
<p>Pros: For the most part, this place is awesome. Even thought the quarter system moves fast, it’s great because you get to take more classes and if you dislike the class you aren’t stuck with it for a long time. Greek life here is decently sized, and being in a fraternity myself, I do enjoy it. The food is great (even though I am getting tired of it), and so is the housing. Most of the first years live in triples, so it’s something different compared to most universities. I lucked out and both of my roommates are cool. There are a bunch of people here fom all over the world (literally) and it’s cool meeting them. Also Westwood is awesome and if there’s nothing to do on campus, I usually find myself going to a hookah bar there and chilling with friends. Santa Monica’s a 5 minute car drive away and Hollywood is about 20 or so. It’s great. The girls are also really hot. Weather for the most part is great. It’s usually pretty warm, although the past couple of weeks have been somewhat cool and rainy. The campus is gorgeous and very small and compact, meaning that everything is no more than a 15-20 minute walk away, faster if you have a skateboard or a bike. NCAA sports are great. Even though our football team was terrible this year, the games were really fun to go to. And it’s awesome cheering on the basketball team. Everyone has a lot of UCLA spirit, and you’ll see a billion UCLA sweaters, tshirts, etc. just walking around campus. It’s great.</p>
<p>Cons: My biggest con is the fact that I have yet to find a good circle of friends. I do have a bunch of acquaintances, but no one I could call a friend, yet. It’s only been four months though, and it usually does take me a while to form friendships with people, so I’m not too worried about that. It can also be really hard to get into competitive classes, and even having priority doesn’t help sometimes. The school doesn’t offer a real business major (the closest it comes to is business economics, which is just economics with accounting classes thrown in) so that does suck for those wanting to major in that field. Other than that, can’t think of too many cons.</p>
<p>Overall, I’m really enjoying it here. I never even considered going here (I thought I’d go to Cal or USC), but ended up here and can honestly say I love this place.</p>
<p>Hey, auscguy, could you elaborate on why you don’t like USC? I know alot of us here, myself included, are considering going there. I think your opinion could help us :)</p>
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