Yes, it's a fairly selective and very large university where not only humans but also angels, demons, lycans, vampires, demigods, fae, orcs, elves, and what have you (Yes, we have "WHAT!") can attend. Of course they all get alogn and relations with the town are just fine. Do I have some waterfront property in Brooklyn for sale. OK, you get the idea.
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| Vadali University Student Guide; Everything you need to know about VU | |
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Where is Vadali University? -- Mason West Virginia, just off of 4th St, just a few blocks from the Ohio River which is pretty impressive. How many students are there? -- 15,000, plus several thousand staff. That's a lot of people! -- That's the size of Cornell University or Syracuse University. Many state universities are larger. Of course the town has fewer than 10,000 souls, so you can imagine what the locals think. Let's just say the university is building its own city on a hill, and destroying the rural atmosphere. Also because the university is pretty much it, all students from freshpeople to graduates live on campus. There simply is nowhere else to go. This also means most of the employees and faculty also live in campus housing of one kind or another. West Virginia.... Don't they mine coal in West Virginia? Not right around VU and if they do, well, the industry has been depressed. West Virginia... let's try that again. It's in the middle of nowhere. There's nothing to do. What if I don't have a car... Where do I go to eat? OK, this is one of those nice, paternalistic, East Coast schools on steroids so there is a lot to do on campus, film club, dances, an Over-Under campus bar, theatricals, intermurals. There is also public transit. There is a Campus Courier that makes weekend trips to Columbus, the nearest large city, and there is Greyhound or a regional bus company that connects with Greyhound at Marietta and with whatever airports are nearby. The board plan is cheap and good and there is meal exchange for eating in restaurants, "late night" for those who can't make the dinner hours, lots of study breaks and midnight breakfasts. OK, but I'm stuck in a dorm for four years! If you're old enough to dread this, remember there simply is nowhere else to go. Students and employees outnumber the locals almost ten to one. If you're young enough in "real life" to think this is fine you need... Dorms 101 First let's get down the lingo. A dormitory is the building where you sleep. It may also include kitchen facilities if you are upper class people or transfers but not for freshpeople or most undergrads. You sleep in a bedroom. The bedroom may be a single (1 person, just you) a double (two people, you and a roommate), a triple (You and two roommates) or a quad (You and three people. Quads usually are suites of two or more rooms). Dormitories can have a long hall or suite plan. There are also townhouses but that would be married student housing if it existed. Long hall dormitories have the rooms on long corridors. The bathroom is down the hall most of the time. You keep your toiletries in a bucket and bring them with you along with clothes when you shower or wash. There is also a lounge that acts like a living room and sometimes as a kitchen as well. Suite dormitories have clusters or groups of rooms with a shared bathroom and lounge. Typically there are any where from six to twenty students per suite (6 to ten rooms depending on whther they are singles or doubles). Suite dormitories are more modern and they make for less vandalism. Most underclass dormitories at VU are suite-dorms. That said, your dorm room is an empty shell. There is a bed, but no bedding. A place to hook up television and internet, but no computers or TV's. There is a battered old desk or a new desk that soon will be a battered old desk but no school supplies. There are no landlines. A word about security This is a VERY BIG issue. Don't leave valuables unattended. Campuses crawl with thieves. Lock your car when you park it if you have a car. Every student has three keys/swipes for the dormitories, an outside key, a suite/cluster key, and a room key. Always lock the bedroom door when you leave the building. Often the suite and outside doors are locked as well. And yes, this is a big place In the course of getting to and from class and running errands a student can walk or bike several miles. Can I have a car? If you're from a graduated licensing state, probably not. Otherwise, still probably not. Parking is in short supply, and do you trust the locals to service it? What about sex, drugs, and rock and roll? Noise is a good way to piss people off so be careful about blasting your stereo. Remember your head phones and earbuds. As for the sex, you're over eighteen, or of consenting age. If you're partner consents, no one is going to care, except the roommate. Privacy is in short supply, but there are no parietal rules. I don't think abortions are easy to get in either West Virginia or southern Ohio. Use contraceptives, available at the campus health service. Yes, your character can get pregnant, but do you really want that happening? The drinking age is 21 and all the other stuff is illegal, but who is going to enforce the law, unless you make a nuiscence of yourself? As always, drunk/stoned and stupid is just that. Rude and boorish is just that. Having a nice, perfect, character who enjoys herself is harder than you think. What about food? -- There are a few places to go out to eat, but unless you have VixBucks, you will be eating on campus. A typical dining hall (And there are probably seven to ten of them because, face it, an army travels on its stomach) serves four entrees, three or four hot sides, three or four cold sides, and a variety of desserts, beverages, etc... In addition there are specialty bars such as short order (hamburgers, omeletes, sandwiches), pizza, Italian, ethnic, etc... Since we have some not quite human species here, I'm not sure what they eat. For the homo sapiens sapiens there is always a very wide variety of cold serials and energy bars, and even chips and chocolate covered doodies (candy covered in chocolate or carob. It's my "real world" mother's name for these things) as well as breads (Matzoh at Passover) and peanut butter, Jams and jellies, honey, and butter, yoghrt (one flavor), cottage cheese etc... out at all meals. Breakfast is also multi item. Use your imagination if you get up early enough. There is food available from 7am to midnight. Just come in and graze. You have reentry and "snack" and if you miss dinner you can do "late night." If you didn't have to walk everywhere, the freshperson fifteen would be the freshperson twenty. The upside of this is that the dining halls (They are truly worthy of that name) are great social meeting grounds. I wonder though how the different species and students from different parts of the world share meals together. What about classes? Some are online. Some meet several times a week. Some have three hour, four hour, or open labs. Expect to spend a lot of time studying in the library, lounge, or your bedroom. That is just the way it is. There are eight undergraduate collegs at Vadali University. Arts and Letters -- Humanities (English, history, drama etc...) and Social Sciences (Psychology, Sociology, Anthropology)... etc... Also area studies. Applied Social Science -- Business, Economics, Criminal Justice and Social Work Science, Environment, Pre Health Professions -- Biology, Environmental Science, Forestry (but not agriculture), Chemistry, Physics, Geology, Mathematics, and Computer Science. Premed is a group of courses and usually involves a biology or chemistry major. Human Ecology and Allied Health -- Sorry there is no nursing, but there is Consumer Economics, Fashion Technology, Nutrition, Nutrition Education, Therapeutic Education, Child Life. There is no occupational therapy, physical therapy, or nursing. This is due to accreditation issues. Engineering -- Civil, Mechanical, Electrical, and Chemical Engineering, Computer Science (It's offered in two divisions), Applied Phyics, Organizational and Industrial Engineering, Materials Science, Applied Mathematics. Education -- Early childhood, special Ed, PreK -- 12 in most subjects. Educational Psychology (Almost a duplicate) This happens a lot. And yes, Physical Education and Health Education too. Fine and Performing Arts -- Fine Arts, Art History, Drama/Theater, Music, and Graphic Arts Applied Theology -- Theology, Comparative Religions, Occult Stuides, Magick On the graduate level Vengenace U just offers: MBA -- Yes, that's a business degree. Why not... MAT -- Master of Arts in Teaching, good in nearly all fifty states! MSW -- Master of Social Work MEng -- Masters in Engineering in most fields but not aerospace PhD in the Humanities, social sciences, some natural and physical sciences, and mathematics. I don't see a major/subject I want! Sometimes this happens. Vadali U DOES NOT offer: Agriculture (It does offer Forestry and you can do biology with a botany or zoology concentration) Nursing, Occupational, or Physical Therapy -- The last two are five year masters degree programs and all of them have huge accreditation requirements. Law -- There are too many lawyers in the world. Medicine -- Medicine is a graduate program and again there are big accreditation issues. Preparation for the Rabbinate -- This again is the province of yeshivot. Think accreditation issues. Yes, you can be a Near Eastern Studies or Theology major with lots of Hebrew if this is what you want. Aerospace Engineering -- Just not offered. Architecture -- Another five year degree. You can substitute graphic arts or civil engineering with lots of art electives. What about magic/magick? Let's just say it's got limits and comes at a price. You can't make buildings appear. You can't use it to avoid arrest if you commit a crime off campus, and using it to influence your grades is.... cheating. What about the locals? Oh, you think demons, devils, and angels are bad. Mix a bunch of folks who have been here forever and love their "rural lifestyle" or "mountain lifestyle" with a bunch of terminally privileged or not-quite-human best and brightest living in highrises and having everything shipped to receiving in the big warehouse by the river, and you can smell the envy and disgust in the air. Let's just say relations between town and gown are a trifle sour and leave it at that. The locals are glad to sometimes not serve you, vandalize your car or bike (or maybe steal it), give you bad directions, and treat you like garbage. Any one wanting to play a "townie" is welcome to do so. It might be fun. |
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