Texas A & M University - College Station

Date: Mar 30 2002
Major: PreMed and Medical (This Major's Salary over time)
Texas A&M University is an outstanding educational institution! I am currently in a Radiology residency at Harvard Medical School and my education at Texas A&M really provided the foundation for my career. If you strive to do well and succeed at TAMU you can make it anywhere.

TAMU was an all male military school until 1964. The student body is greater than 55% male. Also the Corps of Cadets is very central to the social life and student administration. 6:30 am Monday -Friday they will be marching behind George Bush Drive. Yell practice on Friday night before the football games at the stadium is quite an experience. You will see lots of military uniforms on the campus. There are also sororities and fraternities on campus.

If you want to have a social life at A&M it is will help if you are involved in the Corps or a fraternity if you are male. Every once in a while there is some antagonism between the two groups but it is really very modest at worst.

There is not much to do at College Station, besides go to the Dixie Chicken (Corps hangout) or Dudley's Draw. They are right across the Street from the North end of campus and next door to each other, so it makes the mingling easy. There are keg parties off campus that are occasionally fun. Los Nortenos in down town Bryan serves outstanding Mexican Food. There is nothing like 6th Street in Austin in College Station. Lake Summerville is west of town and the Country Inn there is an outstanding steak place. The Sailing Club has outings at Lake Summerville which can be quite fun.

TAMU is an outstanding educational institution. The social life is a little lame, but the education more than makes up for it.