Purdue University Northwest - Hammond Campus — Attraction in North Township

Horrible. The university and campus look great. Then the nice goes away. Personal examples. Admissions/financial ad. Make the hour plus trip to them to turn in documentation that they say they need. Then they won’t take any of it and send me back home because I didn’t have all pieces. The one piece that was on the way was coming electronically from the IRS, why couldn’t they take what I had? I told them how far away I live and they knew the one piece had to come from someone else. They don’t care. .................................................................. Classes: They will cancel a class and send you no heads up via email or phone call. The blackboard system they have loses hard work that you have turned in. Poof gone. ............................................... Students are left to hang when it comes to poor teachers. I have had an calculus teacher whose heavy Chinese (?) accent was so bad that no one could understand her. Now how do you learn in that class? We would ask each other “what did she just say” and none of us had a clue. But the 100 reimbursement ends the very first day of class so nah nah boo boo to you. So you lose money when you get a class in which the teacher speaks horribly broken Englishy speak. Why would they do that?................................................ Parking lot fees for students whose degree are totally online...priceless. Disconnected...yep. When you get towards the finality of your degree you will have great difficulty finding those last classes that you need to complete your degree. Yes some of them will not be offered for a few semesters...why would they do this. Crazy. and if your lucky enough to see them offered it will be at the weirdest time possible. Yes Purdue makes new degrees and then forgets about students who are working on degrees they had four or three years earlier. Apparently no one runs the departments who actually offered the degrees in the first place. .............................. Transfer credits. yes they will tell you what some of them equivalent to but the rest will be transferred in to Purdue and yet hold no value and are no substitution for anything. Yet they are from regionally accredited universities. Many of which will hold eerily similar names to existing classes. Thanks......................................... Bottom line. +++++ There are a lot of colleges out there that make the college process pleasant that don’t have the attitude of "well , if you want a degree from us we are going to make you run in needless circles just because we want too". I went there three plus years and was on the deans list every semester and in the end I got so sick of the games I went to somewhere else...somewhere...

I've been a student here for 3 years now.

I had a B GPA and both a Core 40 and Academic Honors from high school. I didn't participate in sports or extracurriculars, and I still got in. My friend with ADHD who did well in sports got in too.

If you're not sure what you want for a major, select "undecided" on your application. I didn't know this, and so I chose Human Resources Administration out of my metaphorical hat.

You pay more if you lived out of state because Illinois or other state property taxes don't not fund the ample grants and scholarships that us Hoosiers have paid for.

My time here has made me realize that I won't thrive in an office 8 hours a day. I'm going to slowly die of a heart attack as Stanley Hudson from the Office put it, in his comparison between his and Ryan's generations.

This is what college is about. Challenging your naivete and resolve in your chosen career. Whatever high school didn't help in constructing your character, PNW professors will. What you get here is what you're willing to sacrifice intangibly, like time and energy to read the damn book.

If you think you're going to drop out, it's in your best interest to not apply until you are ready. I'm not trying to sound like a jingoist military veteran saying there's an archetype you need to mimick.

College dropouts have it harder to obtain a job than those who never went to college, according to the Bureau of Labor Stats and Adam Conover from TruTv's "Adam Ruins Everything."

In regards to parking, the early bird gets the worm. You can call the staff security to give you a jump or gas if needed. You are paying for it after all.

I guess the worst thing in my vicarious experience are my friends' grievance about their grants and FAFSA's not...

I applied for disability accommodation services over a weekend of illness surrounding chemotherapy treatments during a take-home exam in which the professor accepted late with penalty. (I had notified the professor in advance, but he ignored me.) In addition, I had difficulty completing my first two assignments due to illness and due to difficulty contacting the professor (he did not answer emails.) I had questions regarding the assignments, but was put off by the professor twice stating, “if you do not understand the material, get out of the classroom.” Upon meeting with him in his office after the end of the semester, I found that he meant this as a joke to illustrate the ease of the material (despite other students being afraid to ask questions.)

I received 50% on the first homework assignment and 25% on my second homework assignment (he didn't mark the assignment, he just gave a blanket grade.) During the semester, when I asked him if he would consider removing the reduction in grade, he just yelled at me. When I asked him about accommodations so I could take chemo, he ignored me. As a result of both this and my performance in the course, I withdrew from chemotherapy.

Professor refused to follow his syllabus, removed material, and assigned grades differently than shown in syllabus.

Even disability accommodation services attempted to contact him FOUR times before he got back to them.

Response by dean was pretty much, "life is unfair." Disability accommodations office said him taking my exam with penalty was "above and beyond." When I submitted a grade appeal, the professor threatened to argue to reduce my grade further (got it on tape. wooo, Indiana one-party consent.)

I'm a senior and this dropped me from 3.65...