The University of Tampa

Date: Sep 25 2010
Major: Biology (This Major's Salary over time)
University of Tampa is a finishing school. The majority of students are children from wealthy families who need a piece of paper "proving" they're qualified to run Daddy's business back home, or they're looking for husbands/wives from prominent families. Obviously, a great deal of the students here are rich prats who haven't worked a day in their lives, don't know the value of a dollar, and generally look down upon people who are of the middle class.

The faculty members I have met proved to be quite pleasant and helpful once I proved I wasn't a snotty four-letter word demanding a passing grade. School policy requires the professors to have designated office hours, and most will schedule appointments with students if extra help is needed.

From what I've seen, the course load is a joke (I'm a freshman biology major, so most of my classes were general education). However, I was under the impression honor students would undergo a more rigorous program than the general student body. Class sizes are relatively small; my largest class had about 70 people. You shouldn't believe the website's account of class sizes; the class average is way over 15 students now since President Vaughn has allowed more individuals in.

The dorms are quite nice. Most of the rooms have their own bathrooms (I think only two dorms have community restrooms), and quite a few halls are set up as apartments complete with kitchenettes (these cost an arm, a leg, and your first born though). The buildings are all right too for the most part. The science and business buildings are fairly new, but some of the old buildings smell like rodents died in them.

Campus security isn't very reliable or helpful. There were three rapes in the chapel construction site (that's in the MIDDLE of campus!), multiple muggings, the Night Ride stops running at 1 am (just when things start to get dangerous), and a shooting involving the death of a senior. Oh yeah, the Night Ride golf carts are driven by lesbians who make very suggestive (and CREEPY) remarks.

Tampa itself isn't very interesting either. "Downtown" Tampa includes about six sky scrapers, a plethora of bums who'll mug and/or rape anything wearing shoes, and a ghetto (located about 100 yards from Straz Hall) where the majority of the school's meth comes from. Fortunately, for all the druggies, pictures of campus security guards toking with students are passed out every semester for blackmail purposes. In short, Tampa shouldn't be called a city because everything closes at about 6 pm, and anything walking on the streets after that time is a target.

So, the people aren't very nice or classy (there are a few exceptions, but they generally hide from the douche bags), the professors are mediocre, the programs are below average, and crime is relatively high for such a small school. But not to worry; you'll have a nice dorm that costs a fortune where you'll be able to do recreational drugs all day… because that's all there is to do in Tampa.