(Temple) I came here because I had a friend who

Educational Quality	C-	Faculty Accessibility	D+
Useful Schoolwork	B-	Excess Competition	C
Academic Success	D+	Creativity/ Innovation	F
Individual Value	D+	University Resource Use	B-
Campus Aesthetics/ Beauty	F	Friendliness	C-
Campus Maintenance	C-	Social Life	C+
Surrounding City	B-	Extra Curriculars	B-
Safety	D

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Male

1800

Bright

Creativity/ Innovation	F

Useful Schoolwork	B-

He cares more about Creativity/ Innovation than the average student.

Date: Jan 21 2013
Major: (This Major's Salary over time)
I came here because I had a friend who ranted and raved about the quality of the education department. Needless to say she no longer is a friend to me. There are 3 types of students here, the first (and most prominent) group are thugs who would like nothing better then to flip you over and have sex with you as soon as they see you. There is a reason it is called "ThugU" by locals. The second group is the sane people who are scared out of their mind. Sadly, this group is the smallest in size. Finally, the rest are arrogant pricks who are just sooooo happy to have been let into a college AT ALL with their 1.5 high school GPAs and dismal SATs. The area around the campus is dirty and scary. You are living in the smack middle of the Ghetto. Of course, if you go on a tour (which I did) you would be told that it was "up and coming" and to just use common sense. Well, that is not true. You will be sharing the streets with crack addicts (about half of which are your "classmates"), robbers, and rapists. Have fun! As for my main gripe, about the education department. It is only really applicable for teaching in Philadelphia (which is a dirty, crappy city anyway). My first day of the first education class I took, the teacher asked us where we wanted to work. When I said I wanted to go back home and teach there. He gave me this pointed look and then 'humphed". Needless to say, that was the beginning of a series of idiocy. That is the goal for Temple's education department: to keep spirting out urban teachers who will funnel into the Philadelphia school district. Good luck if you want to learn anything except how to react to a 5 year old who is overdosing on crack (literally one of the lectures I went to was focussed on this), I would avoid this.

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