Emerson College

Date: Dec 17 2007
Major: Other (This Major's Salary over time)
Ok, so I'm currently a freshman at Emerson (Class of '11), and I was super-excited to come to this school. I always wanted to get out of the ultra-conservative, sports-heavy, macho jock environment that I had come from, I wanted to go to the Northeast, and I had my sights set on a degree in Radio. Emerson was my number one school from a list of about 6 (others being Syracuse, Ithaca, UMaryland, UNorth Carolina, Michigan State, and Northwestern). Its currently December, and I knew early into October of this (my first semester here), that I had to get out. Fast. Why, you ask? Well, let me start the list. First off, I was not an emo/indie loser in high school, so there's one strike against me. Secondly, I like to go out and party, and not sit around in the common room watching indie films on Friday nights. Next, I don't care about Indie Rock and/or Indie Films and/or poetry and/or obscure fiction literature. Also, I love sports. Bad idea. Finally, and possibly most importantly, the people here (for the most part) are extremely pretentious know-it-all hipsters who want to be "counter-culture" and "unique" so much it makes me sick. In a nutshell, I've come to the reaization that this place is the following: Very liberal indie kids who mooch off their upper middle class parents and think that in 30 years they are going to be seen as poetic geniuses in film/literature/theatre, ect…the sad thing is that I didn't see this before I came ($40,000 later)