<p>It’s just not possible for “the large majority of the student body is thoroughly dissatisfied with their experience at Stony Brook, and that’s a fact.” Just not possible. If that were the case, then we wouldn’t have filled the residence halls so quickly, and classes wouldn’t fill up, and we wouldn’t have to close admissions early. It just doesn’t make any sense.</p>
<p>We’re a campus of 15,000 students – of course not all of them are going to be happy. If even five percent of them are unhappy, that’s 750 students; that’s a big group, and they’re going to be heard. You want to hear success stories? Look around the Stony Brook Web site. Read the blog posts. Check out what’s going on around campus.</p>
<p>Do NOT assume that if just because a major is “hard” (which is a VERY relative term) you’re not going to enjoy yourself, and do NOT assume that communications (which we don’t offer, it’s specifically a journalism program, and a pretty intense one at that) or history are “easy” majors where everybody spends their day singing about how ecstatic they are.</p>
<p>The people who say it’s dead on the weekends aren’t here on the weekends; they’re commuters who don’t care or they’re residents who are too lazy to get out of their rooms and do anything. Please don’t let a handful of message board posters, or a BS “review” site, color your impressions of the campus.</p>
<p>We’re too big and too diverse to color with one paintbrush.</p>
<p>-Chris</p>