Ithaca College

Everything about this school is average. Most of my professors have no idea how to create a lesson plan, let alone teach. Half the professors go on tangents about random shit that is completely irrelevant. Many of the students spend class time on their laptops playing games or going on Facebook; there's rarely any class engagement or discussion because nobody cares.

The campus center and most of the buildings have the atmosphere of a McDonalds that was built in the early 90's. Buildings are really unattractive, smelly, and poorly maintained.

Don't even think about attending this school unless it's your only choice. Also, work hard in high school so you don't end up going to a college that is AVERAGE, or in other words, shitty.

1st Year Male -- Class 2018

Faculty Accessibility: A+, Education Quality: F

Ithaca College is a pretty terrible institution. If you have any other choices, I urge you to go somewhere else.

Social Life:
If you're a little shy and the world does not turn around drinking and smoking pot you will probably make no friends at all. It's a very harsh environment and no one will reach out to you. There is basically nothing to do at Ithaca ever, so expect to be bored and friendless.

Academics:
If you took any difficult classes in high school prepare yourself for a relatively smooth sail. The classes are painfully easy, some have mind numbing busy work but most just have lots of reading that you don't really have to do anyways. You most likely won't learn anything in your classes.p

Staff:
The staff here is unwilling to help and almost impossible to contact. Both me and my room mate transferred after one semester and we both got routed in and out of 4 different places before finding out whether or not we needed to do any paperwork to make our leaving official. I never met with my advisor, not even one time, I don't even know what she looked like.

Students:
The vast majority of kids are assholes with attitudes. This statement isn't really fair, but the loudest kids and the ones you see more frequently stammering through hallways act like stuck up jackasses. The rest of the students are actually quite nice but again they probably spend all of their time drinking and doing drugs. The few kids you will meet that aren't obsessed with doing illicit acts exist there but are totally miserable so they just stay in their rooms.

Dorms:
The dorms suck, and it's pretty outrageous that the school is so obsessed with money that they won't let students live off-campus.

Also, the school crushes your creative spirit.
If you attend here, expect to be bored about 99% of the time.I urge anyone considering Ithaca College to think again, I transferred after one semester and I couldn't be happier. It's important to be in a place with diversity (I'm pretty sure my entire time on campus I saw no asian people and a handful of African Americans and about three people who weren't from the east coast) and that doesn't just treat you like a number with a money machine attached.

1st Year Female -- Class 2012

Faculty Accessibility: C, Education Quality: F

DO NOT ATTEND THIS SCHOOL! Ithaca College has a very shiny veneer with a top notch "administrative" building and focuses on campus visit during the few warm spells that occur on campus. The admissions office does a great job of hiding the massive faults of the school that you will only become aware of once they've fooled you into attending.

If you want a good idea of how horrible this place is, visit it during January or February when then school is truly covered in snow and is freezing cold. This is what it will be like for 75% of the school year. Attending this school means you will only have 2-3 months of the school year where the weather is actually warm.

The dining hall food is abhorrent. Do not eat at campus center dining hall. In my first year, I lost 5 pounds because I wasn't able to properly stomach the food. The saving grace of the food plans are the terrace dining halls. Eat at the Kosher kitchen, it's the only place where the food is moderately palatable.

The campus is a prime example of brutalist architecture from the 60s. Expect big , drab, and dreary buildings devoid of any pleasant architecture. The 2-3 months of warm weather make for a somewhat nice campus, but once the cold weather hits you'll be staying in your dorm.

And did I say dorm? Don't expect to be able to let off steam here by drinking or smoking pot. Your gestapo representative (er RA) will most likely bust you for being either too loud, drinking, smoking, or you know just being a college student. Because god forbid college students act like college students.

The only nice freshmen dorms are Boothroyd. Big rooms. Everything else is once again a drab nasty leftover of the 60s. The towers are somewhat nice. Just make sure to get a lakeside view. The terraces are absolutely disgusting. They were originally constructed as temporary housing in the late 70s. The quality shows.

Once you get old enough to move off campus (because dorms are stupidly over priced) you will deal with a town that is the epitome of liberal idiocracy. Expect 1 am closing calls at the downtown bars, townies that think they're the shit, paying for trash stickers for trash pick up, terrible slow drivers, and crack houses off of seneca street. This is ground zero for every libtard policy under the sun.

Spend lots of time going to Cornell's campus to feel what a real university looks like. Watch them have real concerts and shows come to their venues. Maybe if you're lucky you'll have someone get you into slope day because we all know Ithaca College is too cheap to even bother with getting a real concert or have a real end of the year party. Kendell day, the "unofficial off campus block party" will have cops swarming it and arresting you in the street. Visiting Cornell will make you understand what you are truly lacking at IC.

The Comm school is considered to be "the second best" in the country. This is hogwash. Don't waste your money at this degree mill. If you want to get a comm degree, go to a tier 1 school our west like USC or UCLA or go to NYU. You want to be near the action if you want to get a job in these fields.

You will not be challenged academically at this place. You will learn new things for about a year after high school. After that you will get an excellent BS in Bullshit. IC is the epitome of something trying to be something it isn't. Expect to be surrounded by other mediocre kids who have money and come from Long Island, New Jersey, Mass, and Connecticut.

4th Year Male -- Class 2012

Perceived Campus Safety: B, Useful Schoolwork: F