What do you like and dslike about Stony Brook?

Joan52
Thu, 02 Jun 2011 00:07:23 +0000

Nonname -

Your generalizations are astonishing. The staff doesn’t care because they’re from LI? Well, where else SHOULD the staff be from? Wisconsin? New Delhi? The budget cuts are all over public schools.

As for the comments by you and others as to SB being a “suitcase school” - you are right. It’s been that way since my H went there in the 70’s; he left every weekend to work to earn his tuition money. All of my D’s friends who’ve started at SB in the past 3 years have transferred out.

My D refused to apply because she did not want to face the unrelenting pressure from my H for her to come home every weekend. Instead, she’s at an upstate SUNY with a nice percentage of LI’ers, who do not go home for the weekends. I also agree with you that SB is a hideously ugly campus.

If you’re not happy at SB, transfer. Nobody is holding you hostage.