Welcome back, race-baiting troll. Thought we were all rid of you but I guess not. DP |
Why on earth would a student be sitting inside his/her dorm room on a Saturday afternoon? Do you even hear yourself? |
Football, fraternity life, on-campus weekend activities |
+1 Someone must have an enormous chip on their shoulder to read that post and come away with some kind of racial slant. Report the race-baiting troll. |
Wow this thread has some of the nastiest posters Ive seen on DCUM. For what? Bunch of bozos trying to discredit a school because it wasn’t right for their kid?? |
actually, GMU was started as a branch of UVA in 1949 and continued to be until 1966. |
Freshman are required to live on campus at GMU unless they get a waiver. My kid was in the dorms all four years and loved it - she was actually concerned about not getting a dorm room (and GMU's dorms are nice suites) but in the end was able to stay with friends in dorms for all four years |
Much more difficult. I had one in a community college course and one in the same subject at GMU at the same time. Huge difference. Of course you can always pull a bad prof but generally I was impressed with GMU faculty. NOT impressed with the adjuncts at NVCC at all |
Oooo.... My HS student had a similar experience with a Chem prof. at NVCC during the summer. She was like the Soup Nazi (Seinfeld). It was kind of crushing. My other kid is at UMW and took Chem 1 and 2 there -- the profs were SOOO much more helpful/kind/accomodating. You still had to do well on the exams and labs. They weren't giving away good grades just for pleasantries. But the profs at UMW weren't trying to screw you over as a student left and right. They understood that you were a freshman and might not know what to do for the first lab. At NVCC, the female prof. was brutally tough about the smallest things -- which meant you couldn't do the lab or you couldn't get ANY points for X if you didn't do something right. It seemed that the NVCC prof was burned too many times by students trying to get one over on her, so she was SUPER strict. At UMW, the prof's mindset was to work with the students toward success. At NVCC the mindset seemed to be "how can we fail you in this class?" (a mindset that students are not to be trusted). |
It's true that football does create a common focal point for school spirit -- I'll give you that. But, "fraternity life" is NOT a positive. I was in a sorority. I know what goes on. For the most part, fraternities are toxic male culture. Not a selling point. |
Right! They are either asleep, in the library, or out exploring the community. They aren't going to be sitting around in the lounge watching tv on a Sat. afternoon. |
I wasn’t in a sorority but I loved going to frat parties. |
I agree completely and I was Prez of my sorority. huge mistake. But, for the recird, GMU has 40 national and international soririties and frats. They met on Sunday nights when DS was at GMU. No houses back then. That mayhave changed |
GMU also has a club football team that plays against other schools. It’s not DI, but there are, in fact, home football games you can attend. |
DP. JMU Greek life is only about 20% of the student population - there’s a lot of over things to do there. I have two kids at JMU who aren’t Greek and are having a great time in their various activities. |