Providence College

Gross or Expensive

At PC there are two dining halls, Ray and Alumni. Ray is buffet style with a meal plan, and the quality of food is generally not so great. The variety is okay, but the pasta is overcooked, the meat is always dry, and vegetables are usually soaked in so much butter and oil that they're inedible. Alumni has really good food and a great variety, but everything is overpriced. You have to pay for packets of salad dressing, and they even charge you for an empty cup.

Cold and Wet

Providence is beautiful on warm, clear, sunny days. Unfortunately, we don't get a lot of those here. Most of the time it is so cold I dread having to walk outside to go to class. With New England weather, you never know when it's randomly going to start down-pouring. Most of the year it is dark and gloomy, very depressing.

Only Crowded During Finals Week

There are usually plenty of computers available at the library and a few computer labs on campus too. The only time it's hard to get a computer is during finals week because for some, that is the only week they actually go to the library. Students are given a good amount of printing for "free" (as part of tuition), which lasts most of us through the semester. Wireless connection isn't great. I was never able to connect to the school's wireless and relied on my roommate's router.