Miami University Ohio

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It’s gone down a lot in stature over the years.

Why do you think that’s the case? They are throwing a lot of money at my DC. We haven’t visited yet and aren’t sure what to think.

DP: I think it's just location. I don't think the quality of the education has declined, it's just not as popular as it once was. Kids aren't as moved by the idyllic college campus in a remote area as they used to be.

I would prefer my could go to college in a remote area.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Once upon a time, it was my top choice. Visited the campus one morning and saw a hung-over kid puking on the sidewalk. My dad wasn't keen on it after that, and talked me into a different school. My BF did attend, and she hated it and transferred to another school after the first year. It was very Greek and cliquey.

You need to write a short story or a screen play with that as the opening scene. Where you go from there, IDK, but the vision I have of you and your dad witnessing that made me chuckle.

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1. This school is in Ohio one of the stupidest states in the country.
2. Your child can not use the health center or they might end up in jail
3. Environmental sure lets drink water in OHIO.

Who in their right mind sends their kid to college in Ohio with Jim Jordan & JD Vance? Who?

Seriously great awesome parenting.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:1. This school is in Ohio one of the stupidest states in the country.
2. Your child can not use the health center or they might end up in jail
3. Environmental sure lets drink water in OHIO.

Who in their right mind sends their kid to college in Ohio with Jim Jordan & JD Vance? Who?

Seriously great awesome parenting.

go away.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:Anyone visited in person? What is it like? What is Oxford like?

The campus is beautiful. Classic Georgian architecture. Be sure to get out to Western campus (ironically located on the Eastern side of grounds -- it's the former Western College for Women). It's literally one of the most beautiful, prototypical university campuses in the nation. They've filmed movies here because of it (see Clooney's "Ides of March" and Jodie Foster's "Little Man Tate" and the forthcoming "Turtles All the Way Down")

Oxford (called "Uptown") is basically a classic college town. Overrun by students in the school year. Townies resent them. Etc. Frat houses everywhere (Miami is home to like four or five original fraternity chapters -- no sorority houses, just suites on campus due to laws that said unmarried women living together were houses of ill repute).

Not really close to anything. Cincinnati is like 40 minutes away. Dayton nearly an hour.

Great overview. Thanks. Do students find Oxford too small after a while?

Naw, I never did. That said, a favorite thing to do on weekends was to find a friend with a car and go to either Jungle Jim's or Forest Fair Mall. I think the latter is abandoned now, however. (I was there in the early 1990s).

That's when I was there as well. Traffic on Colerain Avenue heading into Cincinnati was terrible! But mostly we didn't leave town. With something like 16,000 other kids your age, there is plenty to do. In any event, my main hobbies were drinking, chasing girls and falling in love with them occasionally. Intramural sports sometimes. So, I was never bored. I stayed over the summers as well.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s gone down a lot in stature over the years.

Why do you think that’s the case? They are throwing a lot of money at my DC. We haven’t visited yet and aren’t sure what to think.

DP: I think it's just location. I don't think the quality of the education has declined, it's just not as popular as it once was. Kids aren't as moved by the idyllic college campus in a remote area as they used to be.

I would prefer my could go to college in a remote area.

For me, it was like starting to become a grown up with training wheels. There were limits to how much trouble I could get into!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Once upon a time, it was my top choice. Visited the campus one morning and saw a hung-over kid puking on the sidewalk. My dad wasn't keen on it after that, and talked me into a different school. My BF did attend, and she hated it and transferred to another school after the first year. It was very Greek and cliquey.

You need to write a short story or a screen play with that as the opening scene. Where you go from there, IDK, but the vision I have of you and your dad witnessing that made me chuckle.

DP. But, this reminds me of the summer of 1993 in Oxford, Ohio. They were filming a movie called "A Reason to Believe," (not released until 1995.) I got really drunk uptown and crashed at a friend's apartment in Campus Courts which was closer than my own apartment. I got up, hungover and bleary eyed. I'm sure I looked terrible and probably didn't smell great. As I was reaching for the door to exit the apartment building, the door opened as someone else was coming in. Sun flooded the hallway. God's flashlight. The person coming in was Allison Smith who I recognized as one of the daughters from "Kate and Allie." I inclined my head and said, "hey." She said, "hi." We continued on our respective ways. The end.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:1. This school is in Ohio one of the stupidest states in the country.
2. Your child can not use the health center or they might end up in jail
3. Environmental sure lets drink water in OHIO.

Who in their right mind sends their kid to college in Ohio with Jim Jordan & JD Vance? Who?

Seriously great awesome parenting.

Are you one those dumping on the state in the other Ohio thread or just stupid yourself?

For one thing, East Palestine is about as far from Oxford as you can get in Ohio at 300 miles away.

JD Vance won with 53% of the vote, so nearly 47% voted against him. Sure, he's reprehensible, but the other senator is a Democrat.

There is reason to be concerned about reproductive health in Ohio now (thankfully, not when I was at Miami in the '80s) and that is a shame.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Anyone visited in person? What is it like? What is Oxford like?

The campus is beautiful. Classic Georgian architecture. Be sure to get out to Western campus (ironically located on the Eastern side of grounds -- it's the former Western College for Women). It's literally one of the most beautiful, prototypical university campuses in the nation. They've filmed movies here because of it (see Clooney's "Ides of March" and Jodie Foster's "Little Man Tate" and the forthcoming "Turtles All the Way Down")

Oxford (called "Uptown") is basically a classic college town. Overrun by students in the school year. Townies resent them. Etc. Frat houses everywhere (Miami is home to like four or five original fraternity chapters -- no sorority houses, just suites on campus due to laws that said unmarried women living together were houses of ill repute).

Not really close to anything. Cincinnati is like 40 minutes away. Dayton nearly an hour.

Great overview. Thanks. Do students find Oxford too small after a while?

I appreciate your honesty.

Naw, I never did. That said, a favorite thing to do on weekends was to find a friend with a car and go to either Jungle Jim's or Forest Fair Mall. I think the latter is abandoned now, however. (I was there in the early 1990s).

That's when I was there as well. Traffic on Colerain Avenue heading into Cincinnati was terrible! But mostly we didn't leave town. With something like 16,000 other kids your age, there is plenty to do. In any event, my main hobbies were drinking, chasing girls and falling in love with them occasionally. Intramural sports sometimes. So, I was never bored. I stayed over the summers as well.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s gone down a lot in stature over the years.

Why do you think that’s the case? They are throwing a lot of money at my DC. We haven’t visited yet and aren’t sure what to think.

DP: I think it's just location. I don't think the quality of the education has declined, it's just not as popular as it once was. Kids aren't as moved by the idyllic college campus in a remote area as they used to be.

I would prefer my could go to college in a remote area.

For me, it was like starting to become a grown up with training wheels. There were limits to how much trouble I could get into!

I mean, that is ideal.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:1. This school is in Ohio one of the stupidest states in the country.
2. Your child can not use the health center or they might end up in jail
3. Environmental sure lets drink water in OHIO.

Who in their right mind sends their kid to college in Ohio with Jim Jordan & JD Vance? Who?

Seriously great awesome parenting.

go away.

Seriously. This person won't give it a rest...

https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/45/1115851.page#24454351

https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/30/1115432.page#24438355

https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/1110663.page#24285103

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:1. This school is in Ohio one of the stupidest states in the country.
2. Your child can not use the health center or they might end up in jail
3. Environmental sure lets drink water in OHIO.

Who in their right mind sends their kid to college in Ohio with Jim Jordan & JD Vance? Who?

Seriously great awesome parenting.

go away.

Seriously. This person won't give it a rest...

https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/45/1115851.page#24454351

https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/30/1115432.page#24438355

https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/1110663.page#24285103

Lol, you have an impressive memory

[Anonymous]

DC was admitted with a scholarship. The campus is beautiful but is the town too small? That's the one big concern for us.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:1. This school is in Ohio one of the stupidest states in the country.
2. Your child can not use the health center or they might end up in jail
3. Environmental sure lets drink water in OHIO.

Who in their right mind sends their kid to college in Ohio with Jim Jordan & JD Vance? Who?

Seriously great awesome parenting.

Oxford is 7 miles from Indiana. East Palestine is in Eastern Ohio.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:1. This school is in Ohio one of the stupidest states in the country.
2. Your child can not use the health center or they might end up in jail
3. Environmental sure lets drink water in OHIO.

Who in their right mind sends their kid to college in Ohio with Jim Jordan & JD Vance? Who?

Seriously great awesome parenting.

Oxford is 7 miles from Indiana. East Palestine is in Eastern Ohio.

East Palestine is closer to DC than to Oxford. Just saying.

Now who is the stupidest?