I was just made an offer to teach Italian at SMU in Dallas, but I have no clue what it is like, what it looks like, what life is like there, and so on...I apologise
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I saw you posting in many of my communities...pinkpiggyJune 25 2005, 18:02:23 UTC
I live in Dallas and have many friends who attended SMU. I find it to be a fantastic school. I attend many events there still. Don't let the fact that George W. wants to build his Presidential Library on/near campus scare you. In Dallas, the man only won by a few thousand votes (considering the population of Dallas, it wasn't much). To address the comments above mine, Texas does have flat plains and a bunch of cattle. Of course if you were living in Dallas you wouldn't really notice that. Not much room for cattle in the city or it's 'burbs because there are so many interesting museums, nature centers, restaurants, markets, etc. We also have many decent sports teams! Living in Dallas also gives you the option of taking weekend trips to the hill country (great for biking!), piney woods, Big Bend, the gulf coast, or other great metro cities like Austin, San Antonio, and Houston. Yes Dallas does have it's share of crime. I'm not sure you'd actually be living in Dallas if you moved here. There are numerous suburbs and housing is cheaper if you don't mind tacking on an additional few minutes to your morning drive. If you choose to live in Dallas, you can easily access a crime report on your part of the city. The high crime areas seem to be contained to low income parts of town.
I've only been to Grand Rapids once so I can't say much.
Re: I saw you posting in many of my communities...damboJune 25 2005, 18:09:20 UTC
thanks so much, this is precious info.
could you please tell me more about SMU's students and stuff? some people mentioned how most are into pre-law and business, while the website says a lot are in liberal arts and sciences.
also, i just found out about crime...could you tell me more about it? what kinda crime? if i lived around SMU, would that be a good choice then?
Re: I saw you posting in many of my communities...pinkpiggyJune 25 2005, 22:26:33 UTC
Business is their most popular major. I have two friends that went that route and one friend currently enrolled in pre-law. Social Sciences (economics, Political Science, etc.) is probably second. Girls Gone Wild actually tried to set up shop for a few days at SMU. I think they got one taker. Many students at SMU have more money then the average college student. It's common to see the students riding around in Porches and attending football games in collared shirts & khakis(I've seen this first-hand). Other's don't have daddy to pay for their expenses and work extra hard to ace each course.
My grandparents actually live close to SMU. It's about a ten minute walk from their house to the school's campus. Their neighborhood is very nice and has very low crime. The crimes reported in Highland Park are often just irritating things the students do like possession and consumption of alcohol and annoying telephone calls(yes, that is actually in the police reports). Here are some crime stats of the campus: http://www.smu.edu/pd/clerystats/mainstats.asp
If Highland Park is out of your price range, there are some nice, less expensive communities in Dallas that have low crime.
I've only been to Grand Rapids once so I can't say much.
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could you please tell me more about SMU's students and stuff? some people mentioned how most are into pre-law and business, while the website says a lot are in liberal arts and sciences.
also, i just found out about crime...could you tell me more about it? what kinda crime? if i lived around SMU, would that be a good choice then?
thank you so much :)
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My grandparents actually live close to SMU. It's about a ten minute walk from their house to the school's campus. Their neighborhood is very nice and has very low crime. The crimes reported in Highland Park are often just irritating things the students do like possession and consumption of alcohol and annoying telephone calls(yes, that is actually in the police reports). Here are some crime stats of the campus:
http://www.smu.edu/pd/clerystats/mainstats.asp
If Highland Park is out of your price range, there are some nice, less expensive communities in Dallas that have low crime.
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