Texas State University — Attraction in San Marcos

Looks legit on the outside. Inside? A four-year holding cell for your potential.

🎓 The Promise:

“Come find yourself. Follow your dreams. Get a degree. Get a job. Live the dream.”

🚨 The Reality:

You’ll spend 4 years learning irrelevant information from people who’ve never built anything in the real world… Then graduate with debt, depression, and a résumé that gets ghosted harder than your last situationship.

📚 Academics: ★☆☆☆☆

You’ll memorize theories that expired before TikTok existed, write 2,000-word essays no one will ever read, and listen to professors read off slides you could find online.

Want to build a business? Launch a podcast? Become financially free? Not in this syllabus.

💸 Value: ★☆☆☆☆

$40K–$80K+ for lectures, fees, and a glorified PDF certificate. Meanwhile, ChatGPT is out here giving you better answers for free in 3 seconds.

This is like paying for Blockbuster in the age of Netflix.

🤝 Networking: ★☆☆☆☆

They’ll say “it’s not what you know, it’s who you know.” Cool—except your “network” is mostly other broke 20-somethings trying to find a job on LinkedIn. Meanwhile, real connections are being made in Discord servers, masterminds, and online communities that actually ship things.

🎉 Campus Life: ★★☆☆☆

You’ll either drown in Red Bull and anxiety… or in jungle juice and regret. Colleges now double as institutionalized party zones, where binge drinking is normalized and personal growth is postponed until "after graduation" (aka never).

🧠 Mental Health: ★☆☆☆☆

Anxiety? Sky high. Direction? Nonexistent. Support? Wait 3 weeks for a 10-minute session with a counselor who’s just as overwhelmed.

The system is not designed to grow you. It’s designed to manage you.

📈 Career Prep: ★☆☆☆☆

Want a job after graduation? Cool—just compete with 40,000 other grads for the same 12 entry-level roles. And don’t worry, your Career Center has a workshop called “How to Build a Resume in 10 Steps.” That’ll definitely save you. 👍

🧠 What You Could Do Instead (aka Real Life):

✅ Learn from world-class mentors online ✅ Use AI to accelerate your skill set ✅ Build a real business, personal brand, or digital income stream ✅ Travel, grow, create, explore ✅ Keep your curiosity alive without feeding it to a debt-hungry institution

🔥 Final Verdict: 1 Star

College in 2025 is a vibe killer, a creativity crusher, and a four-year detour disguised as “the smart path.”

✅ TL;DR:

You’ll pay thousands to sit in rooms you don’t want to be in

Learn things you’ll never use

Miss the window where your energy is highest and your mind is sharpest

And graduate trained to obey, not to create.

The new elite don’t have degrees. They have drive, vision, and execution.

⭐ So unless you're becoming a surgeon or astronaut:

Drop out of the illusion. Drop into your power. And start your real...

I have applied for jobs multiple times here and not once have I been an acceptable candidate for hire. Jobs that I know I am capable of, jobs that I know I am extremely overqualified for as well. Not to mention, all the documents they require and frankly stupid, repetitive questions they ask. I have sent emails requesting job application updates just to receive email responses with improper choice of words, poor grammar, punctuation, run on sentences. They also didn't entirely know the hiring process. I was in shock reading these emails and being told that I was not a candidate. (Rhetorically, thinking to myself how did you manage to get a job with poor grammar and choice of words?) Some of these people in HR under Talent Acquisition Recruiter need proper email etiquette. You're not sending a text to your BFF! Laughable. Some recruiters don't even have HR related degrees. Being a university it also amazes me that some positions available have multiple job titles squeezed into one title at a sad pay rate and work hours. Separate the job titles and pay accurately. All while their simple administrative positions are getting the same pay, if not close. Many companies are smashing titles simply because they intertwine/overlap with each other and overloading employees with multiple responsibilities just because they don't want to pay. Examples; an Engineer/Electrician, Marketing/Graphic Design, Teacher/Counselor, are not the same, so no you would not create a job title to have one employee do both job responsibilities. I didn't think a university would do that. Sadly, I am a TXST grad and apparently my degree is mediocre to them. Although, I do have other complaints as far as the university goes, because they do need to get off their high horse, but this review is for their job recruitment. They need to revisit their hiring process and organize their job titles with the correct job responsibilities, the...

Texas State University of San Marcos has great education. But life here is questionable at best and miserable at its worst. The buildings and architecture are historic in a negative way. Many of the lecture halls and dormitories are falling apart, and many students living on campus are forced to live in terrible conditions. With many suffering from being poisoned by the mold growths in the ventilation of their living halls. Some of the buildings also smell bad no matter where you go inside. TSU also forces freshman students to live on campus with no way to opt out. Which means you’re going to lose several hundred to several thousand dollars depending on your budget. The student culture here is also difficult to adjust to. Half of the campus is populated by party animals who regularly partake in alcohol and illegal substances. If you don’t conform or constantly avoid the party animals, you will be alienated. In both dorms I previously lived, the conditions were poor and I had roommates involved with illegal substances. One of which severely impacted my health by their substances traveling through the dorm’s ventilation into my room. In my second dorm, one roommate partook in illegal substances and invited friends to the dorm who provided additional illegal substances. The only redeeming quality of TSU is the education and the professors. I had great professors and they structured their learning material well. And every professor I worked with was friendly, compassionate, and understanding. TSU also has a wide variety of programs to choose from for undergraduate and...