Purdue to Marian

When asked why in the hell would I pass up a great education from a well known school to go ride my bike at some school in Indianapolis that most people have never heard of, it took me a while to come up with a full and complete answer. After having completed my first semester at Marian now, I have come to realize how much happier I am here. I tried to keep the whole transfer thing quite last year but it got out of hand. All I heard was that the only reason I was going to this school was because I was going to get a free bike. I can assure you that that was not and is not the case. I can also assure you that I paid for this new bike I am riding.

I think that the real reason I did transfer was because I was not happy being in such a large school. Classes that exceeded 300 students were not for me. Having 4 of your 5 classes in Class 0f 1950 sucked. Now that I am here at Marian I think that my largest class was only 45 people with the other only being 25-30 people. I feel more at home in these smaller and easier to work environments. Another great thing about this school is the fact that you have an actual professor teach the classes. Not some TA or grad student. So when you have a real question regarding something about the class or the way something was graded you can go to the prof and not have to look up some person you did not even know was the prof for your class.

I think that all the shit I took last year when every one found out I was leaving Purdue can finally and truthfully be answered that I did not leave for the reasons that were rumored, but for the reasons that I discovered as this semester went on. I thought my whole life that I wanted to be the 4th generation Purdue grad from my family and now I realize that I would rather be the first generation from my family to graduate from Marian College.