Stony Brook University Top Questions

lack of security, quality of food, size of classes

SB is unique in that it is incredibly diverse (culturally, in interests, majors, background, religion, everything), yet so many of the students live in NYC. The first and second year students tend to go home to NYC on the weekends. They are used to the overstimulating environment of NYC so they think that there is "nothing to do" at SB on weekends. As students get older they realize there is plenty of fun (and work) to be had on the weekends, so they don't venture back to NYC. This is why some claim SB is dead on weekends.

The worst thing about being a student at SUNY Stony Brook is not knowing what I want to do with my life and not having any real guidance to help ease the pain. With a world of opportunities available to me, Stony Brook's counselors will only give me a positive reinforcement of anything which I might come up with and are programmed to say things which are first read to them anyway. They have no actual opinion and because of this, they can not actually answer my questions.

The music department is not performanced-based and the art department doesn't really have any sub-genres it's just either 'studio art' or 'art history', really lacking! Many of your professors will be foreign in the sciences and some other classes. Classes/lectures can range from 20 to 200 and it takes 10 minutes to walk from any dorm to classes and the busses are a horrible way to get around and you can't have a car freshman year unless you commute. People aren't very sociable. Most social parties including drinking, smoking up and/or videogames.

The worst thing is that though it is diverse, nobody mixes. The Jews hang out together, the Asians (over 45{4a082faed443b016e84c6ea63012b481c58f64867aa2dc62fff66e22ad7dff6c} asian) hang out together, the Republicans, the artists, etc. The school is diverse but very segregated.

food is expensice and the quality is not good.

Administrators

The worst thing about this school is the lack of pride and enthusiasm which negatively affects attitudes in all aspects of life.

Long lines for food. Food is expensive. Get rain boots

The amount of students in classes are absolutely absurd. The workload they expect of us is defenitely much different than what is expected of my friends in other colleges. It makes me feel like I'm not going to get a good GPA working so hard while my friends can just "get by" with the bare minimum and attain a much higher GPA than me.