Loyola is just the right size for a student that doesn't want to be lost in a crowd but also doesn't want to know every single person in the school. The administration only listens to the students when it wants to, but overall they do keep us safe and do give us quite a few amenities. Their club sports are really strong even though the money and the field space they give us doesn't reflect that. Loyola is the type of school that needs proactive students because since we do not have a lot of team spirit, students really need to go looking for friends. Friends don't find them.

Best Thing: Professors who care, not all of course, but most

Change: Make president garanzini actually care about the students as much as he cares about loyola's reputation

Size: Just Right

Reaction: most people back home don't know what it is, most only know of loyola marymount since I'm from southern california. When people do know they are impressed

Time Spent: Info Commons/Library when studying, when I'm not I'm at Rambler

College City really

Administration: they are hard to get a hold of, there's a lot of bureaucratic red tape

Recent Controversy: Police Officers and Campus Security being racist

School Pride: No

Unusual: i don't think so

Always Remember: The first time I went to the local college bar: Hamiltons

Frequent Student Complaints: 8-ride's slowness, the inconsistency of the shuttle, loyola's strictness on alcohol, garanzini not listening to the students, unnecessary spending of school funds

Since I am in a small program, all of the professors know my name. Most programs are at least minimally like that as well. Students are competitive but just with themselves, there is not an overall school rivalry to get ahead. Most of the classes are geared toward getting a job, but there are quite a few classes, if a student wishes to take them, that are just based around learning for its own sake.

The computer science department, although lacking in the networking major, is overall a great department. It is small, but that is helpful because students get direct contact with their professors and can do research projects as collaborators with them.

Professors know my name, but since I'm in computer science its a really small program

Students study about 1-6 hours a day depending on if its close to midterms or finals or not

Class participation really isn't that common

Intellectual conversations do occur often, but usually not in a pretentious way

Students are competitive but are rarely forced to be competitive, it is usually by choice

The core requirements aren't too intense and do have some leeway although definitely not enough

The computer science program is pretty much geared to getting a job, some of the other majors are more focused on learning

Loyola students are tolerant and accepting, but there does seem to be quite a bit of segregation on campus.

Any student that is not a white upper middle class student. It seems that color and religion matter more than sexuality or socio-economic status.

A northface and ugg boots

Yes, but you rarely see a white and a black student walking together or dating, its probably more of a midwest mentality more than anything.

One of blacks, one of asians, one of the good white christians, and one of the partying crowd

Midwest and west coast

Upper Middle Class

Politically Aware: Yes, Active: No

There is a complete mix

Yes, most do, some don't know what they are going to do so can only hope or just don't care

Sports such as Rugby, Lacrosse, Volleyball and Soccer

Rugby is the partying crowd on campus and are known as such.

It depends what dorm you are in. For freshmen dorms mertz and simpson they do, regis most do not. Sophomore dorms are apartment style, but most people know their neighbors.

Popular events at Loyola? Thats a joke

Dating scene? A quarter of the students are guys and half of them are gay, there is barely any dating scene.

I met my closest friends in sports and on my floor in mertz.

I'm in the Information Commons working on homework

There's the loyola all-nighter and the big basketball game against UIC

Depends who you are, you have the people who party once a month, which is the majority of the students, and then you have the people who party more than once a week

It seems like a pretty good number of people are in them, but they don't run the campus or anything like that

Partied every night

nothing, the library isn't even open on saturday night. Well I guess you could go up to evanston and catch dinner and a movie

Go downtown and walk around, go to evanston and watch a movie. Catch dinner somewhere around chicago. Go to bars/clubs.

Preppy, white, mainly girls, the only guys that go to the school are gay

preppy, upper class, well-dressed northface and ugg wearing students

ya overall they r

Except for the few rogue students, overall its true