Overview of Randolph-Macon College

Macon is primarily white and rich. If you're neither you'd better find some other middle-class minorities or get used to spending weekends alone. Your only real chance at making friends is Orientation Week, during Orientation Week you spend most of your time with your Orientation Group. If you can't connect with them you'd better take advantage of any time away from them to make friends or you're screwed. So social-wise, unless you're some combination of white, rich, and bubbly, you're going to be screwed. The food in the Dining Hall is terrible, if you have a car bring it, you're going to want to eat off-campus whenever you can. Macon Coffee is better but it is possible to get sick of hamburgers, wraps, and chicken tenders. When it comes to academics I can't complain and a Macon degree is definitely recognizable. The campus is beautiful and the professors are knowledgable, helpful, and friendly.

As an athlete and member of Alpha Phi Omega, Theta Omega chapter, I've found many ways to entertain myself outside of the classroom. The college offers a nook for everyone willing to lend their time to an extra club or organization; Greek life, varsity athletics, intramural sports, clubs and external activities such as Army ROTC keep the varieties of these options fresh. The staff and faculty are incredibly friendly; there isn't a problem finding a group of friends at this college.

The campus is like it's own community and everyone finds their own group of friends to fit into very quickly. The campus is really nice on sunny days when you can take a blanket and sit out on the grass and do work. I love being able to walk around campus and wave to people I know and not have to walk forever to get to my classes.

I get to know my professors here well. They know my name, and that personal relationship was important to me for my college education. It's not hard to know a good number of people at the college, whether staff, faculty, or students, because of the small school environment. When you get involved in different campus activities, you'll find that you can get to know different types of people on campus. The smaller numbers makes it easier to see the different activities that different students are involved in: you get to mix it up, but still build relationships...and I think that makes it very enjoyable.

I came here, as I said earlier, from a community college. I had no intention of being very involved on campus in terms of extra curricular activities or really even taking advantage of many of the college services as it was just not something I was used to. That quickly changed when I learned about all that this college had to offer. I joined the Political Science Student Association, the Young Democrats, and am the re-founding member of our colony of Phi Kappa Sigma fraternity (by the way, I hated the notion of Going Greek when I got here). I'm actually kind of sad that I'll graduate in Spring 2012.