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Johns Hopkins University

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Date: Nov 08 2005
Major: History/Histories (art history/etc.) (This Major's Salary over time)
There are so many negative things about Johsn Hopkins that I do not know where to begin. Simple put, there is little purpose for undergraduates on that campus besides paying tuition. Faculty are arrogant, haughty, disinterested in your education/welfare as an undergraduate and absurdly lazy. A few years back, they protested mightily when asked to teach more classes on Fridays (all but the most junior take 3 or 4 day weekends every week). Most "grunt work" is delegated to graduate "teaching" assistants whose bathing abilities are almost as poor as their teaching abilities. If you major in the Sciences… good luck! The sadists who teach those courses will curve you downward. At other universities, there is rightly a concern over grade INFLATION. At Johns Hopkins, the concern is over grade DEFLATION. Your chances for graduate school admission will be adveresly impacted as a result of these practices if you attend Johns Hopkins.

Socially, the university is sadly deficient in activities, funds and ideas. Fraternities offer a social outlet which is, at best, lame. The University does not try to provide constructive alternative activites to students. Instead, it calls in the Baltimore Police for a periodic lockup of fraternity brothers. Other activities cost money - calling the police is free. I'm not always a fan of fraternities, but the things for which the University goes after fraternities are generally trivial and have little to do with health, welfare and safety and have far more to do with university image enhancememnt, insurance premium reduction and the general sour-puss mentality which pervades administrative corridors.

The adminisitration is dysfuntional and doesn't care even slightly about the problems of the university or about its students. They even did a survey several years back which determined that this sentiment was widespread. I can remember when I needed the associate dean, Dean Sheppard, to sign 1 piece of paper for my law school application stating that I had never had disciplinary problems (I had none), she never did it, despite the fact that I called nearly every day for a month, and emailed, visited, etc. That is just oen example of what you can expect as a JHu undergraduate student.

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