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March 27, 2007 |
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This is a big university that thinks its a small university. To be honest, there are things I adore, but there are also drawbacks to attending Western. The community is welcoming, open, and clean. The city is small, but populated enough to attract concerts and touring shows, easy to navigate and diverse. The university offers many majors, though some are difficult to get into because of over-crowding and under-funding. The professors are well chosen and often over qualified, students are treated as equals. The biggest drawback is limited room. While thousands of students attend classes are still created for a much smaller university. GURs (General University Requirement courses) are nearly impossible to get into your freshman year, and who wants to spend their senior year taking Biology 101? Anyways, if you're an Indstrial Design or Enviromental Studies/Science major I definitely recommend the college, but if you're an English major I'd probably look somewhere else. |
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February 13, 2007 |
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This was a wonderful university to attend. It has a lovely campus, a comfortable student population around 12,000, is situated in a small, lively town and it's not far from either Vancouver and Seattle. The university has added added new buildings as well as remodeled most of the older facilities. It's a modernized campus.
The students are friendly. People you don't know or never seen before will say, "HI" when passing by. The common perception of college education is that all staff are professors. Which is not the case. Some classes are taught be TAs. Some are regular teachers. In my experience, it was hard to actually have a professor but I suppose, at the higher levels, one does get professors as opposed to teachers.
There are plenty of classes and majors to choose from. Better yet, Fairhaven College has a design-your-own-major program. It allows students to bypass a lot of the 'useless' classes and focus on what it needed. As well, one can create their own major which isn't even offered!
Food service is decent. A few steps up from camp food and if you can handle that, it makes life easier. The campus is small and not spread out like a bigger university. I would love to return there and earn a different major.
One of the most interesting deparmtents is their alternative automotive engineering program. It is here that the students work on alternative energy sources for vehicles. |
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January 07, 2007 |
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Western is in a gorgeous location, and Bellingham is a fun and distinctive town. I loved all the nature and trails, I loved the cute shops downtown, I loved the people in general. In fact, it's a warning. There are tons of students who love it so much they end up staying there for life and not using their degree at all. It is extremely liberal and environmentally focused... even the cafeteria has vegan options.
I really enjoyed most of the classes, and though some people complain at so many GURs, I feel it was good to be required to go outside my interests... I wouldn't have because my major was so intense it didn't give me time for them, and if they hadn't been required, I would have missed out on a lot I ended up being passionate about.
The number of clubs is astounding. Personally, I found the Christian clubs to be amazing. However there are also 5 Pagan/Wiccan clubs, Hooka clubs, a club only for people named Sarah... you name it, you'll find your interest. The variety at Western is phenomenal.
A warning to music majors. I went in with a dream of being a professional musician. Some of the instrument programs would have helped me in that dream, however, as a flutist, it ended up being dashed to the ground. The situation may have changed, but be sure to check up on it before you go in. The music program is so intense that by the time I realized my mistake, it was too late to go for another degree. Even so, it took 5 years. The TESOL program is amazing, though, and so I feel my college years were not wasted.
I would advise doing a lot of your GURs first, because I was positive I knew what I wanted in life and college and I was wrong. If I had done GURs first, I would have discovered other interests and who knows where I would be now?
All in all, Western is an amazing school. My problem just happened to be an one subsection anomoly in a great major in a great school. |
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