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Clemson is pretty amazing. It gives you that small town feel while still having around 15,000 kids attending. The camput is beautiful and the opportunities are endless. Everyone has a place at Clemson.

Best Thing: School Spirit Change: a little TOO rural if you are looking to shop, have to drive a distance. but then again I'm from NJ and I have like 6 malls in less than 30mins from me... Size: Just right. You get all the big school pride and wide range of academic opportunities while being in a student body of under 20,000. Reactions: People say, Oh that's a good school. My so and so went there..., It seems like everyone knows someone who went to Clemson and is proud of it. Time on Campus: In Brackett, where all my classes were. Otherwise, in sports buildings and fields. COLLEGE TOWN: I have yet to hear of any other school where atleast every other shop in town, and the surrounding area, works in the College's name into the title and, get this, has big orange paw prints leading into the town for MILES on the highway. They start right after you turn off of 85. Administration: Only complaint is that they spelled my name wrong on my diploma and I have to pay for the change...mean. Controversy: A student was murdered a few years off campus. Usually some new story pops up about drinking issues at a fraternity, a death or injury, sometimes just weird hazing rumors. School Pride: HUGE Unusual: I've never seen so many people travel to and leave a place so quickly. Before and after football games you do not drive for about 3 hours unless you absolutely have to. The Stadium seats something like 86,000 and I swear 80,000 people come into town. Half of the tailgaters don't even go to the game, they just come for the party! Experience: Crying when we lost to BC in 2007. We could have gone to the ACC Championship... and- When I visited campus the spring before I attended. I immediately fell in love with it. Complaints: No parking where you want it

Clemson is absolutely wonderful and I love it, and everyone else around me feels the same way. There is so much pride associated with being a Clemson student, and school spirit radiates across campus and in the community. On Fridays everyone wears orange, especially in the fall. The campus is beautiful, lots of grass and green all over campus. Additionally I think Clemson is a great size. There are 12,000-13,000 undergrad students (I think) which is big enough to meet lots of people and find your niche, but small enough that you always see someone you know when walking across campus. Clemson is definitely a college town. It is not a huge place, but I like that Clemson is off on its own. The community is all about Clemson, and everything is centered around the university. Because it is slightly off the beaten path, there are all sorts of waterfalls and great hiking places nearby, but major cities aren't too far away. We are 45 minutes from Greenville, SC, 2 hours from Atlanta, and 2 hours an 15 minutes from Charlotte, NC. The biggest complaint about Clemson is parking, but I think parking is a problem at most universities. There are definitely enough places to park on campus, but the number of parking lots gets smaller the closer you get to the center of campus. I don't mind though because it makes campus more compact because you are not walking through huge parking lots to get to class. Plus the bus system on campus is great, and buses are always running to and from commuter parking lots and they run to a lot of the off campus apartment complexes. The administration is really great. Our current president, President Barker, really respects the students and has a lot of school pride. I see him all the time at various sporting events, but also organizational events and just around campus. I have heard stories of people knocking on his door and inviting him to play frisbee or other games on Bowman Field (the huge field on campus), and I know he has gone out there a time or two to play. Furthermore, the school really does a good job of addressing student complaints. Almost any complaint I have ever heard or given, besides parking, has been dealt with. And people are working on the parking problem, but it is tough to find a good solution. One of my favorite things to do at Clemson is to spend an afternoon on Bowman Field. On a pretty day, there are always lots of students out there playing frisbee, reading, throwing a football, or playing some other game.

No one knows where Clemson is let alone ever heard of it. It is a nice small college town: few bars and clubs on Main st. There is only one major road with anything to do and that is Main st. Lots of school pride everywhere. beautiful historical campus. great for sports fans. school is not big and not too small.

The campus is beautiful and a great environment to live and work in. The classes are challenging but genuinely interesting. The athletics provide constant entertainment and fun. The students are fun, funny, and friendly even if there is a huge element of conformity. Overall Clemson feels more like an academic community than a college.

The school is large, but you get a small community feeling since the school is in its own town. Everybody loves games!! Whether it be football, basketball, baseball, or really anything that shouts SOLID ORANGE, everybody bleeds orange.

Overall, class size is just right. You can't find a dorm that is close to EVERYTHING unless you live in Johnstone which is a craphole. Clemson is shooting for top 20 status which will make our degrees worth more when we go out into the work force. There are lots of places to just chill on campus especially on sunny South Carolina days. Clemson is a college town (if the college weren't there, the whole place would be like the rest of SC).

The best thing about Clemson is that it is a very campus oriented college. The campus is very nice and houses the Football stadium. I would change parking if I could. The size of the school is just right due to it being located in a small town and parking is hard enough as is. I spend most of my time on campus in the classroom, library, or out on bowman field where many can be found laying out or throwing the frisbee. The downtown scene is small but sufficient. There is one street that houses all the bars which total to around 6 or 7. There is a ton of school pride especially in football. I will never forget the day Gameday came to Clemson for the Georgia tech game. Parking is probably the biggest complaint students have today.

Clemson is perfect in every way. I love it and have had so much fun. Football season is great, followed by basketball and baseball. It is a blast that can never be done again!! So much fun. The students are awesome. Downtown cant be beat.

Clemson is a well-known campus with many opportunities. They are here for the students. I am an older student, and I feel that Clemson is accomodating to us also. The biggest reaction I get when I tell people I go to Clemson is the fact that I am a tiger fan. I love being associated with being a tiger fan. I feel also that Clemson is a big asset to the community and the state of South Carolina.Most individuals that are not familiar with Southern culture think that we are all slow. Having a college with a great reputation helps to identify that in fact the South is a progressive place to reside