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Warning to clinical applicants: Central Michigan University is not a good place.

Currently attending CMU and not enjoying it.

Don't attend CMU. Everyone hates it here. -Current student

My two cents: 1) The town sucks. I have lived in multiple college towns in my life and this is by far the worst one. There's literally nothing to do, ever. There are no good places to eat. No interesting events. No malls. No good outdoor activities. Anyone who thinks hiking here is good is full of crap. I've been to urban areas with better, longer, prettier hiking than this town, despite it being in the middle of nowhere. Oh, and we have a "river." It's like 3 inches deep, smells like shit, and is full of sharp rocks, bugs, animals, and branches, and it cracks me up every summer watching college students try to float down the river in inner tubes. There are always inner tubes ripped to shreds snagged on piles of branches, sprinkled with shattered beer bottles from the frat douches who litter all the way down the river. 2) The demographics suck. Because this is a university with just a handful of tiny graduate programs, there are very few people above the age of 21 in the entire city (besides families). Wanna date? Better be okay with dating children. And online dating isn't much better; still all children. Want night life? There are like 3 bars half-worth going to, and they are swimming with undergrads; hide in a booth with your grad school friends screaming over the deafening pop-country and pray the students you TA for don't run into you. 3) The price sucks. Mt. Pleasant, for its po-dunk size, is astonishingly expensive. I have lived in cities with hundreds of thousands of residents and found rent for cheaper than in Mt. Pleasant. And oh, you want heat? Have fun paying +$200 each month to prevent frostbite. The food is also ridiculously expensive; I've lived in larger cities with far cheaper, far tastier, far more varied fare. And oh yea, you better like Applebees. All you're getting here is boring American chains, no interesting local restaurants or cafes. Well, maybe one or two, but they are crazy expensive. 4) The location sucks. You are literally hours away from anything else interesting (not even interesting wilderness, because everything is just flat farmland for miles and miles), except maybe Lansing, and even that is over an hour away. Also, even if you did drive several hours to the lake or something, it's just a LAKE. Nothing compared to literally any beach I've been to in the entire world. And our biggest nearby city is Detroit, which is America's largest ghost town. 5) The weather sucks. Do you like 15-minutes-to-frostbite temperatures? Welcome to Mt. Pleasant, where it's below freezing for the majority of the year and has one of the lowest amounts of annual sunlight of any city in the country. And we're broke, so don't expect clear roads in the winter. We can't afford the salt to clear it. 6) The culture sucks. You'll live in the shadow of a midwestern party school with no discernable community outside of the undergraduate bloc. And it's practically a commuter campus. It's a ghost town on the weekends because everyone goes home. Nobody, not even the students, wants to be here. 7) The campus sucks. Nothing every happens except for loud, drunken undergraduate parties (and those also happen all over town off-campus. Enjoy trying to sleep Thursday-Saturday). And there are no trees on campus. None. It's just an ugly, flat wasteland. I've worked at multiple university campuses; Mt. Pleasant is by far the ugliest. There's more, but who cares.