Ferris State University — Attraction in Big Rapids

I truly desired to write creative inspirations about the wealth of knowledge and wisdom I would receive from this institution of higher learning. Unfortunately, what I experienced is a mill of higher education producing students as if a factory building cars on a production line. This review is the overall perspective of two areas in which I perused, education and business. First and foremost is the positive people I had the pleasure of dealing with at this "institution" (pun intended) who were few, Thank you for your absolute professionalism in my endeavors. You get 5 stars, and too bad, because you are worth more then this University has to offer and I hope they value you more than the experience I had. Second, the reason I do not attend this University anymore. I should have been more committed to understanding the new way of learning as an adult learner. I did not receive direction from many in the ways of navigating the student portal. Also the consistency of instruction was weak at best. The expectations were nothing short of hypocritical and the direction was the finger point of an averaged paid employee at a grocery store telling someone what they were looking for was "in the next isle". I asked a question in one of my classes to find a blank stare of confusion, another professor arriving late preaching timeliness and barking at students as if they were unintelligent prisoners of stupidity. The last reason is the suicide of one of the Veteran employee who, in story, received the pink slip of "Get out, we do not care about you". I am a disabled veteran myself who dealt with people at risk of suicide. Managed ignorance and cared for the welfare of others in my career in my service to our country. While few cared in this place, more seemed to be collecting a paycheck as stated by one of my professors: "I do not get paid to run the class, I get paid to just grade you on your work"! With this kind of blind eye and ignorance I cannot be associated with a degree I would not be proud of attaining and receiving guidance from such ignorance. Lastly, I am sorry to offend the wonderful folks who have dedicated their life to educating students in the rigors of life. I commend you for your service to take on a task in an environment such as this. To fight the self-entitled "good ol' boy system" and have hope in reaching some students. Some of you have inspired me and gave me a renewed sense of hope in my direction in life, which does not have Ferris State University in my future. Good people need to be in bad places to break the chain of selfishness, I hope the students who are teetering on the edge find you and have inspired hope in their...

Anyone planning on coming here I suggest you don’t. Besides the fact that the school is basically in the middle of nowhere it’s surrounded by weirdos and creeps it’s not safe at all nor does anyone do anything to make it safer. The teachers are terrible if you have online classes and the wifi is bad which it will be since it barley ever works your teacher will tell you that your problem or go to the library even if that’s what you were planning to do and just wanted a lil extension to get there or something and still fail you for that assignment. They don’t try to help you at all what’s so ever. I would call them out but I’ll stay quiet this time. The school is just terrible all together me and my roommate moved out our rooms they only gave us 48 hours to move turn in our keys and clean with no transportation no nothing everyone is absolutely useless here and if your coming here and you get into a situation rather fighting or anything if your African American all they will continue to do is threaten how you can get kicked out or bring up the color of your skin ever 5 seconds they won’t even try to hear how the problem was cause. The school is okay but definitely take the red flag that in the first semester like 3 people already died that’s just a big red flag. there are a lot of weird grown men around who don’t even go to the school and just pray on younger females. the teachers are just as useless has the people at this school who are supposed to keep you safe. remind you I’m not even fully finished with my first semester. THIS SCHOOL IS TRASH...

HORRIBLE SCHOOL FOR TRANSFER STUDENTS OR COMMUTERS:

This is not an ideal school for a transfer student of Junior standings or higher, because you have to wait until Freshman orientation to enroll in classes. This right here put me a year back on my expected Graduation date because I couldn't get the classes I needed. The classes for their CIS program aren't set up conveniently either. They set there courses up to provide for the traditional on-campus, straight out of high school students. Example: ISYS 216 and ISYS 272 are compliment classes that can only be taken in the spring. They offer ISYS 216 on TUE/THUR 9: 30-10:45 and ISYS 272 on TUE/THUR 4:30-5:45, this is ideal if you like unnecessary 8 hour days on campus.

More BAD: Some instructors/professors know that they'll never lose their job and they'll let you know it. In one of my classes the instructor told us, "If you plan on dropping this course; don't, I'm the only one who teaches it, so you'll see me again the next time you take it." Another instructor demanded that I drove 1 hour in a snow storm for a exam because it was required and he doesn't allow make-up exams; yes I got a 0% on that exam.

This is the worse school I have ever went to and this is my 5th school I've attended. If you're lucky like me, you can transfer to a new school when you get fed up, if not your stuck or you...