Frat Culture is All-Pervasive
Over my three years at Michigan State I became increasingly intolerant of the overwhelming frat bro crush-your-beer-can-on-your-head atmosphere of Michigan State. I enjoy drinking, and occasionally drinking to excess, but what I don't enjoy is out-of-control pea-brained frat boys looking to punch any guy who looks at them the wrong way. This culture swings both sides of the gender spectrum of course, although the women are more likely to fall down in a gutter on their 7-inch heels and not get up, than to start a fight. Honestly, I can't say that I had one intelligent conversation with a Michigan State student the entire three years I was there. Let me qualify that by saying I wasn't the most social person while I was there (for reason: see above), however I DID go out at least once a week, and I spent two years in the MSU dorms.
I guess the main issue for me at Michigan State was that it definitely lived up to its reputation as a less-than-academic party school, which is tragic. Michigan State as a school has a lot of really exciting things going on academically, and some of the professors I had while there were outstanding. It is too bad that most of the students who go there are more concerned with being hot, getting drunk and getting laid than they are with their education. Having said that, I haven't visited a lot of other undergraduate colleges, so I can't say whether Michigan State is unique in this point. My guess is that most undergraduate colleges have similar atmospheres, so maybe I shouldn't fault MSU's culture for being so unbearably frivolous and immature.