Rollins people out there....anyone?? Anyone??

Floridalady
Thu, 03 May 2012 13:56:20 +0000

My daughter is just finishing her freshman year at Rollins and has loved every minute of it. We are a low income family but she was given one of the Cornell awards for which we are very thankful - otherwise we would not have been able to afford it. She has not found that campus is full of rich kids at all. A lot of her friends have jobs or work study to help with the cost. She is very low maintenance as far as clothes etc are concerned but she has not felt in the least inadequate in that department.

She applied for and has been given a Residents Assistants post for next year. She will use the money she receives to pay her Sorority dues and for summer travel etc.

She loves the campus and has been very involved. She loves the facilities, the location and has enjoyed Park Ave a lot. She is into the theatre and has taken part in a play and been involved in the department this year. She also takes photographs and because of that is now an honorary member of the Quidditch team :)

Lots of kids on campus have no transport but can always find a ride with someone else for trips to Universal Studios etc. We are lucky that she is only 2 hours away from home and can come home some weekends but has friends from out of state/country and they seem to go home some weekends with kids who live nearer.

She has really enjoyed the small classes at Rollins and feels close to some of her teachers. They certainly take an interest in the kids at Rollins - one of them, who is an alum of her sorority even went over to the sorority house last week to help them with their hair for formal.