Monday, September 8, 2014

A Letter From An Ex Jaguar

The following letter was written by a former Southwestern College student. The writer did not sign it, therefore I do not know who it is, but he/she was clearly disgruntled, and very honest.
Here it is:
 "I'm so happy to finally transfer out of this hell hole. It took me several years and a lot of semesters + summer sessions, but I finally transferred out and plan on attending San Diego State University with a 3.86 GPA. There were a lot of cool professors who were always willing to help and fully teach their interpretations of the material, but at the same time, there were some awful professors who have had long lasting careers on campus and that's a shame on SWC's behalf. Obviously, the dean doesn't listen to student's complaints and all the negative feedback about those professors or otherwise they would have replaced them by now. As far as the administration and counseling departments, there are some nice people but then there are some total A-holes who purposely sabotage your progress because they don't really care or lack the knowledge to help you graduate/transfer. Almost every single person who works in the financial aid department has been extremely rude and unhelpful. The same cannot be said about the staff in the cafeteria because the majority of the employees are friendly and I trust them preparing my food. Now, when discussing the atmosphere of this campus only one word comes to mind, and that's the word "Tijuana." This place is basically Tijuana 13th grade with around 80% of the population little social kids who live across the border and prefer to only speak Spanish and have their walkie talkie Nextels always chirping while they goof around all class and practically drop or fail every course they sign up for. I will not miss you Southwestern and your crowded parking lots, ticket happy police, and all of your budget cuts on classes when in reality you guys are spending millions of dollars expanding the campus. What's the point of building so many new facilities and classrooms if every semester they keep cutting classes and staff because they claim they have no money? You obviously have the millions of dollars to build a new cafeteria in the back and new facility on the corner of H Street yet you make all of your pupils suffer trying to crash and enlist up to 50 students on a wait list with no mercy or sense of urgency for your students."

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