Recent content by Simona

People think I'm crazy. I'm leaving UT Austin — one of the best public universities in the country — for Schreiner University. A school most people have never heard of. My friends asked if I was failing out. I wasn't. I was drowning. 🌊 UT Austin is huge. 50,000 students. My intro classes had...

Schreiner makes a big deal about their "First-Year Experience" program. All freshmen take a seminar together, live in the same dorms, and do outdoor orientation trips. It sounds like summer camp. Is that good or bad? 🏕️ I talked to a current student. She said the outdoor trip — four days of...

I'm from Houston. 2.3 million people. Schreiner University is in Kerrville. Population 25,000. That's not a city. That's a large neighborhood. 🏙️ I visited last spring. The campus is pretty — hills, trees, quiet. But quiet scares me. I'm used to noise. I'm used to options. Restaurants open at...