Found the defensive UConn student

It's a shame the other state schools get overshadowed by UConn, particularly because there was a post here a few months ago about WCSU experiencing a financial/enrollment crisis, and now UConn is complaining about money. I attended one of the CSU schools and had an advisor who was outspoken about his dislike of UConn. He regularly said the only difference between CSU schools and UConn is that UConn is a D1 school. I don't know how big the difference in academic quality is, if there even is one. I never felt like I was in a disadvantage when mingling with UConn graduates.

The comment in the article that WCSU is a school without an identity is pretty spot on. I graduated from WCSU and in my opinion, it's a school people went to for three reasons: the nursing program, the art program, or because it was local and cheap.

In my experience, I didn't want to commute every morning to the UConn campus in Waterbury or Stamford, and didn't want to drown in student loans from living at Storrs. Looking back I kind of regret not attending a different school because maybe my social college life would have been completely different and more memorable, but I guess what ultimately matters in the end is the diploma.