dew2459 t1_jbq4gpm wrote on March 10, 2023 at 9:16 PM

Reply to comment by SeasonalBlackout in UMass warns about people drinking 'borgs' after 28 ambulances called by MarcoVinicius

Someone I know worked very hard her freshman year to get accepted into the honors program there. Why? Not because she was especially interested in the honors program, but it guaranteed she could move from the towers to different dorm housing.

She said, after the first couple months, despite being on the 5th of 6th floor (I forget which one) she started using the stairs a lot because the the horrible vomit smell in all the elevators, esp Fri-Sun, was too gross to deal with.

photinakis t1_jbq8u3f wrote on March 10, 2023 at 9:45 PM

Where you live at UMass changes your experience there so much. I was in the honors program back in the Zoomass days (when there was still a frat row) and really enjoyed it, and stayed in the nerd dorms and it was quiet and clean the whole time. Could not be more different from colleagues who spent their years on the exact opposite side of campus honestly.

Moonracer2000 t1_jbrvh3m wrote on March 11, 2023 at 5:43 AM

Yeah, Southwest was well known as the Jock hell hole late 90s. Central was mostly potheads, Northeast was nerds. Sylvan (sp?) was were you went to disappear.

femtoinfluencer t1_jbttahm wrote on March 11, 2023 at 5:39 PM

twas the same in the mid 2000s

SeasonalBlackout t1_jbq5ets wrote on March 10, 2023 at 9:22 PM

I had a friend who graduated from Umass Amherst, but mid way through got so hopped up on drugs and alcohol that he assaulted several people outside at an event including a campus cop who was trying to get him under control, got arrested (obv) and kicked out of campus housing and ended up in court-ordered rehab before he got his shit back together. They still let him finish his degree and attend classes but he had to live off campus.

TheBetaBridgeBandit t1_jbr7hoy wrote on March 11, 2023 at 2:04 AM

Meanwhile my (pretty upstanding) friend who went to the honors college there almost got expelled for doing some pseudo-white hat hacking on the dining website and bringing a vulnerability to the attention of the school's IT department. Wack.

dew2459 t1_jbq743h wrote on March 10, 2023 at 9:33 PM

That is a bit like one of my high school classmates... except he also had terrible grades and did some major property damage, so UMass just threw him out permanently. He was allowed to go to a state college.

That was over 25 years ago when UMass Amherst was still earning a spot on some annual "top 10 party schools in the US" lists.