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The best thing about this school is that despite the extremely large number of students, most of my teachers have learned my name, I am good friends with everyone in my major, and I feel safe on campus because someone I know is always close by. There are several construction projects going on right now, but they should be wrapping up soon. Otherwise, the campus is beautiful. There are plenty of park-like areas with shade trees and picnic tables to get away for a little while. Murfreesboro is a big town with small town feel. There is plenty to see and do, and I feel very safe wandering around town by myself or with my friends. The most frequent student complaints involve homework in some form or another. However, as far as the school itself goes, the only thing I personally find frustrating is the scholarship system. I received the presidential scholarship based on my high school GPA and my ACT scores, both of which I worked hard to obtain. I now have to work 75 hours per semester at the library, doing 5 hours a week. Any hours missed, including those when the library is closed, have to be made up during the week of my final exams. I feel like I am having to earn this scholarship twice. To end on a positive note, there is plenty of school spirit. My sister is in the Band of Blue, so I go to most of the football games. We have tailgating and pep rallies before every home game, and students get in free with a student ID. There are often people giving away free stuff on campus the week before a home game as well, particularly during homecoming and student appreciation week. There was one semester during my sophomore year that I got 5 free t-shirts in one week! Our football team has its good years and bad years, but our marching band is always on top of its game. At around 400 members, they are the largest group of cheerleaders you will ever see. They keep the fans and the team pumped up through the entire game. Their energy level never goes down. It's pretty cool to see.

The best thing about this school is that despite the extremely large number of students, most of my teachers have learned my name, I am good friends with everyone in my major, and I feel safe on campus because someone I know is always close by. There are several construction projects going on right now, but they should be wrapping up soon. Otherwise, the campus is beautiful. There are plenty of park-like areas with shade trees and picnic tables to get away for a little while. Murfreesboro is a big town with small town feel. There is plenty to see and do, and I feel very safe wandering around town by myself.

I love this school. My experience has been great. i have been exposed to a large range of diversity and have met many interesting people. The classes are top notch as well. You get a good, quality education for less of a cost than many schools that boast of a better educational experience. If you're looking for a bargain, MTSU is the way to go.

At MTSU, there are rarely classes where more than 100 students are enrolled. The majority of classes here at MTSU have 25-40 students. So, you get a more personal experience, more time with professors, and a better relationship with fellow classmates! Murfreesboro is fully of exciting things to do and see, so the area around MTSU is never dull. On campus, something is going on every night and the events calendars are easy to find. Making friends and networking with others are simple in this school and town. We have a small town feel but a large city mentality!

Overall opinion is I love it here. MTSU Is a university you can grow with and settle into. There is something for everyone and it is being updated all the time. One of the biggest controversial topics right now is the initialization of the no smoking on campus rule. This has alot of people Upset but even more people are happy about it. The most frequent student complaint is parking. Parking is horrible but biking is very pleasant there is also a good bus system.

This school is horrible. I started college at 24, after seven years in the Army, and when I came here, I was expecting to have the full college experience. I was hoping to make friends, experience college life, etc. Instead, I feel like I am in high school all over again. There are people here from different parts of the country, sure, but the great majority of students here are from TN, and they only make friends with the people they went to high school with. If you didn't come from their town, they don't want anything to do with you. People here seem nice at first, but there is a major difference betweeen polite and friendly. They are rude, self contained, and the majority have no desire to learn anything new or be challenged. Most people are here because they couldn't get into their first choice of schools. It's like nobody wants to be here. The athletes all wanted to go to UT or Memphis, the rich kids to Vandy, etc. This is the only division one school where you will walk around campus on an average day, and the majority of athletic gear you see represents another school. Why? Because that's where those people wanted to go. This town has over 100,000 people, but it is still run like the typical small southern town. The cops are corrupt, ten percent of the population is on probation, and the power structure is not accepting of newcomers. An MTSU grad student ran for city council this year, and the first thing said about him in the paper was he was only a six year resident. There is no effective public transportation in this city. The parking is horrendus. The school has over 32000 students, but less than 1000 computers available for use. It doesn't feel like I am going to school, it feels like I am going to a job. The majority of professors, like the students, are here because they are not qualified to teach somewhere else.

MTSU is an amazing school. I transferred here from Penn State and it has been a welcome change. I am in the Recording Industry program and can say that it's rank as one of the nations best programs is right on target. We have an amazing staff and an amazing facility and studios in which to do some outstanding work. Our graduates of this program are some of the most sought after graduates in the recording industry. And being 30 minutes from Nashville doesn't hurt either. It's not just country music here, there is so much more and so many opportunities. I am in the songwriting concentration and I have a mentor the works on Music Row that I get to go meet and visit with. How awesome is that?!?!? Anyways I think MTSU is the biggest University in TN student body wise. I think our enrollment is up to about 25,000 students but it does have room to grow. MTSU is undergoing a lot of improvements and construction now. We are getting new parking garages, adding on to our already huge rec center, and we are getting a new student center and new dorms. Parking is insane on campus because like a said earlier, everyone commutes. So hopefully the new parking garages will help, if not, get to class eeeaaaaarrrly or take the bus. Our sports teams aren't bad. Our womens volleyball team went to nationals this year and mens and womens basketball didn't do too badly either. Coming from two power house college in football previously, WVU and Penn State, it was really hard to come here and see that our football team wasn't the greatest and this town does not have much team spirit. We broke the record 3 times this year for most attendance at our games and it was a staggering 24,000. We can't even get the student body worth there which is a shame and I would really like to see that change.

First of all, I'd like to point out that this is a STATE school; it receives federal funding from income tax revenue. That said, every person in the country contributes to the well-being of this and every other state-sponsored institution. Now that I've pointed that out, I'd like to take the time to express my absolute disgust with this place; I bear nothing but contempt for the school as a whole. MTSU's sports teams are "Blue Raiders." From what I understand, that nickname was assigned to Nathan Bedford Forrest, Confederate General during the Civil War. The school also has a building named after him. I find that only somewhat distasteful. What truly disgusts me, however, is that Forrest was the first Imperial Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, and the perpetrator of the Fort Pillow massacre, a notorious Civil War atrocity committed primarily against black Union soldiers. The former is a fact, the latter is somewhat disputed. Regardless, it makes me SICK that every person in this country contributes money to a school that PRIDES itself on its link to a disgusting racist of legendary proportions. Having gotten this out of my system, there are a few other gripes I'd like to share. First, for a town as large as Murfreesboro, there's surprisingly little to do. Most students pack up and go home on the weekends anyway. That alone is pitiful. There's nothing within walking distance of campus. You have to drive everywhere. No one rides bikes. They just drive their hand-me-down BMWs and monster trucks to the closest douchebag-ridden frat boy or hillbilly bar and drink shitty beer; there's not much else here. If you want to go eat somewhere decent, prepare for nothing but chain restaurants. And there's not a SINGLE coffee shop in this wretched hellhole. The last one just closed up. Hmmm, maybe it's because they closed at EIGHT O'CLOCK. This is a fucked up town for anyone who's ever lived anywhere other than Middle Tennessee.

Murfreesboro is definately a college town in the best sense of the word. There's lots of opportunities for good food, inexpensive entertainment options, employment, and shopping. Traffic is pretty commuter friendly as well. The campus is very large which can make it seem a little impersonal since many classes are also large, limiting student-instructor interaction. The most frequent student complaint is always, parking. The parking here is horrible, you generally need to arrive on campus at least forty five minutes early for any class that starts after 9:00 a.m, even then any parking space you find guarantees you a twenty to twenty-five minute walk to class. The off campus public transportation has been a little unreliable to date. It's hard to plan on taking public transportation when the schedule varies as often as it does concerning arrival times.

I would change the way that the money is filtered out. A majority of the money goes directly to the sports programs and less to Agriculture, Biology and Chemistry. Yes, we have farms that are great for hands on work, but there is not a lot there for us to do. Less money is going to the care of the animals and the actual facilities... ie no bathrooms at any of the animal science labortories. People think that the Ag department does not matter, but Agriculture is what helps everyone in every day situations, ie. Food and clothing.