Western Michigan University...and Why You Should Go There

The following is my contribution the future/prospective students of my beloved alma mater, Western Michigan University.

Students, welcome to a place full of diversity. Welcome to a smaller city that will know your name. Prepare to be surrounded by some flagpoles, fraternity houses, promising kiss-ups and drunk hipster wannabes. Prepare yourself for a Midwestern way of preparing for the real world, which is a lot like life just before the "real world." They are both not as cool as elementary school.

I studied Journalism at Western, and I can say one thing: I was taught what I needed to know. Most of the people that go to this highly-populated (well, enrollment did decline in recent years, but that president has since been fired. The wretch!) public university are in for a good time. A lot of the international people inspire the rest of us to hit the books, and sometimes we actually did. But the good time kind of meant more than boozing, debauchery and immoral behavior. We were a large family. There is an honors college, which I think I went into one time. There is a place called the Bernhard Center, where there were some restaurant choices, a bank, a computer lab, and at one time a bowling alley. What ever happened to the bowling? 

Now, some people call it Wastern as opposed to Western. About that I would like to say, if you are a partier, you will be very pleased. At Western, it didn't feel wrong. It wasn't wrong. It was part of being a true Western student. You accept the fact that class is more fun hungover. For every party animal, there are 10 model students. I would have liked to be like them, but we are all different. We are no better than each other, or worse. We just are.