Carnegie Mellon University

it's impossible to get out:

in spring i decided to definitely transfer schools. there's only one problem with transfering though, your gpa sux. unless you work day and night, especially studio based majors, you will not do well. this means that it's really hard to transfer, not many schools want someone with a 2.5 which is around the average for archis.

sports:
i was on the crew team for fall semester. it was awful. i rowed for 3 years in highschool and my senior year we were undefeated until youth states. when i came here i was amazed at how aweful the team was. one positive thing is that by having to wake up at 415am 6 days a week it doesn't give u a chance to go out. it would have been worth it to get up at early if the cmu team wasn't slower than my highschool team. and i must say that the coach was by far the worst coach that i have ever had. in highschool i went through 3 coaches and probably around 15 more at various training camps during summers. the cmu coach was terrible.

social life:
there isn't one. well, there is if you try really really hard. join a frat, or if you're female then go to frats. there are house parties fairly frequently they're just really hard to find out about. there are some kids that party the majority of the nights of the week. i found them spring semester and succeeded in lowering my gpa by .5 because i wasn't in studio every night like the other archis.

pittsburgh:
overall pittsburgh kinda sux. i like it alot better than i did when i first got here but it's still not that great. when feb comes around it makes u wanna kill yourself. this year the sun didn't come out for about 3 weeks straight. it's the most depressing place ever in winter.

dorms:
dorms suck. the rooms are really small. i actually ended up living in a frat house because the school kicked them off campus and turned their house into a freshman dorm. i think being directly adjoined to a frat contributed alot to my having any social life at all. also the fact that my roomate knew a senior in the adjoining frat helped. if i had lived in a freshman dorm with a bad roomate (which is very easy to get) i think i probably would have left after first semester.anyways. i really really despise cmu with the greatest hate that i have known for a while. i'm taking next year off because i don't know where i'd rather go to school and i really couldn't bear to go back there for another year. basically don't go to cmu unless you're one of the unfortunate ones and you're being forced to go by you're parents. feel free to email me i'd be happy to rant some more