The State University of New York Binghamton

I am an international student and going to SUNY Binghamton was the biggest mistake I have ever made in my entire life. I did not know that I was about to hate everything in binghamton: people, food, academics, weather, city, administration, faculty, etc... That is why:

The majority of students are not friendly at all, unsociable, arrogant, cold, closeminded, snob, etc... If you are an international student and wish to make new friends in BU, don't even try, you're gonna get no succes doing that, nobody is going to accept you in their group or even bother make a new friend... people have already filled out their circle of friends or are members of a fraternity, the only thing is that you will " know " people that live in your dorm, or with who you had the opportunity to work with in study groups, saying "hi" "hello" "how are you", that's it. If you meet some compatriots that's a chance. If you do not, transfer at all costs.

If you really want to enjoy binghamton life, you gotta be a drinker and party all week-ends in downtown houses. you gotta also try to pledge to a stupid frat and then PAYING for having friends and fun. Personally, the frat concept is the stupidest thing I have ever known in my life, the thing is that you are paying each semester 100 $ or more for having a social life and for drinking free beer each friday night. You can have fun with them playing a popular moronic game : beer pong... that's it end of story, don't listen to those frat boys seeking for pledgers that they are "a family" and "brothers", that they will "help you academically"... LIES, they want MONEY from you and they want to have drink beer and have fun, if you want to fail from school then pledge...

If you're going to live on campus, I highly recommand you to live in the apartments to make your OWN food because if you go the regular dorms you will have to have a meal plan and the dining halls offer the CRAPPIEST food in the US. The jail food id probably tastier than the shit that is served to you 3 times a day.

Academically, if you are an international student and want to study as an undergraduate I will definitely advice to not do that, most international students come as graduate students and transfer from schools abroad. The courses are difficult for no reasons, tests are hard, averages are low, academical adviser are no help, professors are zeros...

One thing, don't ever listen to your academic adviser ! I have experienced that and I can say the engineering academic adviser (Sharon Santobuono to cite her) has ruined my carreer at binghamton, she gave me sophomore classes while I was just a freshman, she gave the classes she wanted just to fill them up. If you need advice anyways talk to Lorna Wells she's better.

Administration are cold arrogant and does not want to help, they are just trying to get out, there are thousands of offices in all the buidings the campus have, if you have a specific problem with payment or something the student accounts office can not help you, they're just a bunch of stupid robots that do the same tasks each day.

Since binghamton is the asshole of The United States of America, the weather is horrible, 5 entire months of snowing , everything else is raining or terrible cold with a big gray cloud in the sky, just 2 or 3 days of clement weather approaching the end of the spring semester.

The city of binghamton is populated with old and disabled people. The surroundings are a bunch of houses next to each other. The only distraction for binghamton people is going to wall-mart. It's not a ciy it's a SHITY !!!

Now, I have finsihed my freshman year at BU and I am transfering faaaaar from binghamton and I know that I have made a wise decision and I'm happy.

Anyways, if you want to have the 4 worst years of your life, come to binghamton.
Good luck

1st Year Male -- Class 2009