Miami sucks, FIU blows (?) (how much, private school, universities)

[Jon F Moss]

Wow....awesome thread and good posts by everyone so far.
F- I - Who(?) is a good school, and you should do just fine. Being a Sunblazer... errrr.....Golden Panther alumnus & a Phi Delt I can attest to its worthiness.

Like it was said...you'll need a car though....Miami chicks won't be impressed with your Metro pass!

[Hempdiddy]

thanks for the response!

just to clear one thing up though - i thought long and hard about impressing the women of miami with my metro pass and decided against it. I DO have a car and realize i'll need it quite frequently, but wanted to locate myself in a place where i didnt need to use it on a daily basis to get to and from work. It seems that living downtown or the grove won't be a problem.

Who's lived downtown? What was your experience? Did you want to get away from the commotion ASAP or did you find it exciting/convenient?

Who's lived in the grove? Was it TOO expensive? Laid-back? Intense? Comfortable?

Thanks!

- JH

[Jon F Moss]

I used to work downtown back in the early 90's and thought it was a fun place to be. Our office was right across the street from Bayside. there are a lot of homeless down there, but after a while you get to know them (if you care to) and it doesn't seem as threatening as it might to those just visiting. The Design District just to the north is starting to take off, and you're right in the middle of all the action. SoBe is just over the causeway, Grove & Gables to the south, and Ft Lauderdale is a straight shot up 95.

My brother lives in Coconut Grove, and his family loves it. It's expensive to live on the right street, but again you're surrounded by everything you need. The Grove is one of those neighborhoods where you'll be on a street with $1 million townhouses, and a block over you'll be in cracktown so be safe! There are all kinds of little parks & rec areas for kids, and even a dog park for the canines (of which there are a lot of down there) It's as laid back as you want it to be, or as intense as you want it to be.

Be sure to visit the Barnacle, a state park listed as a historical site...it'll give you an idea of what life in Miami was like back in the day

[RI_D]

so you work as a planner...

the transportation is being developed - look at the master plan.

As far as the graduate MIRE from FIU -let's just say you got in early.

the school's a sound investment -your reached the world.

RI_-D

[Jon F Moss]

huh?

I don't get it

[kevinkagy]

FIU is a really good school. It's gotten a lot better these last few years, and it's earned top ranks in its Business School, Architecture and College of Law. A couple of weeks the FIU College of Medicine was recently accreditation, so the university is definitely headed in a really good direction.

[caliberton]

Miami is not a tipical American city, but is neither a latin american city, I think it became a world City where ethnicity doesn't matter that much, unless it matters to you. Very cosmopolitan, beaches: Fabulosas, night life; rocks, and when you are ready to settle down it has some pretty quiet white neighborhoods for ex. Miami shores (so quiet sometimes is called Miami snores)
vente pa ca chico!!! We love white boys!!!!!

[nitokenshi]

I went to fiu for a semester it was craptastic. Teachers were horrible, extremely high extra fees for certain classes. I said this before in another thread but FIU feels like a low tier CC. Miami as a whole does suck nothing to do there and everyone is rude there. Of course you can get by with English since nobody will be talking to you.

[illini84]

Hempdiddy,
I am a Planner myself, but work in the private sector. We work very closely with the City of Miami Planning Department and I've gotten to know many of them well. I can only think of 1 or 2 people in the entire department who are not Hispanic. Often on my trips to the City building, I find everyone speaking Spanish while going about their daily activities. Of course though, they switch to English once the meeting starts. If this doesn't bother you, then go for it. They do have a nice facility with a gym in it and it's right downtown.

[MiamiVice1985]

Originally Posted by illini84

Hempdiddy,
I am a Planner myself, but work in the private sector. We work very closely with the City of Miami Planning Department and I've gotten to know many of them well. I can only think of 1 or 2 people in the entire department who are not Hispanic. Often on my trips to the City building, I find everyone speaking Spanish while going about their daily activities. Of course though, they switch to English once the meeting starts. If this doesn't bother you, then go for it. They do have a nice facility with a gym in it and it's right downtown.

FIU is a very good school that only costs me $1800 a semester. That's a good value for a STATE SCHOOL(State is Good/Private sucks and is expensivo). And there's like 300 majors to be had here. The business school, one of the more popular schools on campus, is highly overrated. I was a business student until last year, when I switched to Public Admin.

Truths about the business school at FIU....

1)It is hard to take a class that is actually IN CLASS!!!!!

2)At least half of all business classes are "online" at FIU, and that was last year, it is probably more by now.

3)You learn nothing from an online class.

4)Considering that most grades are dependent on 2(two) tests, most people cheat. I am not kidding, at the library there were rows of people from the same class taking the same test, and the professors do nothing because its department policy to look the other way. Hey- the school's making money, why stop 'em!!!???

5)I learned through a source that FIU is making a fortune offering online classes. They charge an extra $300 fee on top of the original $100 per credit hour, $700 online fee if you are out of state). The fact is that there are so many greedy little business students who have Tony Montana-like aspirations to own the world that FIU had to dumbify its Business curriculum to address the sheer volume of new business students.

6)One magazine in 2005, not 2006 or 2007, said that FIU's Graduate Chapman school of International Business was in the top 20, another in 2006 said the Ryder School of Business(Undergraduate) was in the top 100, and a Hispanic magazine of unknown origin named FIU the best value for hispanic students. If that is what you call "ranked," you have your head in the sand.

7)You can graduate with a beachelors degree in business from FIU with little understanding of the English language. My buddy Ivan from Peru is a testament to that.