Student Profile
Sarah
- Class: Senior
- Major: English
- Gender: F
- High School:
- Transfer Student: Y
Big Picture
SLU is the PERFECT size. Small enough that you'll see the same faces (sometimes), and large enough that there are always new people to meet. SLU has a great reputation too - not just the school, but the students. There's a joke that goes, "How do you get a SLU student to get off of your doorstep?" "Pay him for the pizza." But, to be honest, SLU's reputation has played a HUGE part in helping me to network and find jobs. However, if you go there, don't expect to live on-campus past your first year - what housing there is is totally run-down, and it's hard to find a place. There are lots of nearby off-campus (walkable) apartment buildings, though, that are really popular with upperclassmen.
Academic Life
Professors are really great here. I spent a year elsewhere where I thought that professors cared, but here they like, really do. Most of them are great about responding to emails promptly and the ones that weren't were just scatterbrained, but hunting them down worked just fine. In the upper-level courses they're obsessed with what they're teaching, and in the lower-level courses they still care. Watch out for the Earth and Atmospheric Sciences guys, though - they'd rather dig for fossils next to the parking lot than come to their own classes. There are a few oddballs, but I've had some really great professors that'll even like, go for a walk and conversation down West Pine.
Student Body
Nobody is really competitive, even though there's a lot of studying going on. Study groups are more like, groups of people studying, not groups of people trying to pass the other for grades. Some people are religious, some people aren't - I'm one of the not types, but it's been pretty cool. This one girl used to always invite me to Sunday Night Mass, and I'd decline, and then we'd talk about world religions some - good times. Most everyone mingles - rich, poor, international, local, that sort of thing. Only black students tend to stick with black students, but the Black Student Alliance is a really popular group, so that's why.
The Best Things
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The Worst Things
Administration
