Florida State University

The social work program was good when I was there but I am hearing rumors it's being combined w/ psych or something. The school itself is nice and the people I encountered were friendly enough but I truly hated the location! Tallacrappy (as my wife lovingly called the town)is a horrible town w/ not much to do. There's a few clubs but they get old fast and the national chain restaurants everywhere get old even faster. We lived in grad housing over by the Mag Lab and it was seriously ghetto. Seriously, it's in the middle of the damn ghetto!! It's horrible and it's close proximity to FAMU makes the town south of campus even more ghetto. Live off campus and in the northern part of the town...close to I-10 so you can leave on the weekends. I was so disappointed by the town that I truly wish I had gone to school elsewhere. Diversity?!?! Not if means assaults, muggings, and drug dealing...

2nd Year Male -- Class 2006

Useful Schoolwork: A, Individual Value: F

Alumnus Male -- Class 2000

Two people got shot a couple blocks from my dorm two weeks before I got there, and I heard 4 gunshots in my first two weeks. Sometimes you would hear bloodcurtling screams go on for around 30 seconds, before stopping abruptly. The tunnel that connects my dorm to the main part of campus is known as the "Rape Tunnel".

The campus apparently spends all the money that it could be spending on lighting, on rape-stations. It also likes to openly brag that "FSU Men Measure Up: 9/10 FSU men believe a woman has the right to say 'no'", which means that 1/10 guys at FSU would totally rape you. And don't worry: only like a third of the campus likes to get wasted and drive in the middle of the week (and yes, FSU brags about this as well). I heard grey-haired professors talking about how wasted they got "last night on vodka" on a Tuesday.

And the students really like cocaine.
This is the partiest of party schools ever to have partied. But you'll probably be so drunk and coked out that you won't remember it.

I remember one guy who drank a whole handle of tequila in a half hour, passed out on my floor, woke up, and went clubbing. That was his pregame. I lived in a freaking dorm, not a frat house. I can't imagine how bad the frat houses must be.

DO NOT LIVE ON NORTH CAMPUS. It borders "French Town", one of the city's major ghettos. I lived in DeGraffe. That's why I heard so much screaming and gunshots.

South campus is pretty. But it's still FSU.
The class sizes are *huge*. I've gone to 3 universities now, and none had classes anywhere near FSU's sizes. I had classes of over 500 students here.

The teachers themselves are generally of pretty good caliber, and that's probably the only upshot of this university.

Beware the summer floods and visible clouds of mosquitos. Oh, and the plates at Suwannee often have VISIBLE CHUNKS OF DIRT. You know the only time they aren't covered in some kind of dirt? WHEN THE PARENTS ARE THERE.

1st Year Male -- Class 2016

Collaboration/Competitive: A, Perceived Campus Safety: F