Fundy U: BJU edition

[LMcC]

(01-23-2011 01:27 PM)mrsthommy Wrote:  I survived one full semester of BJU. Couldn't hack it because I'd already had a taste of life in the real world.
I always felt an overwhelming sense of being trapped because of the fence and the fact that I had no vehicle. I got in trouble for my clothing, which was not in violation of any rule, I just happened to be a curvy girl.

Oh man, don't get me started on BJU and weird ideas about the bodies of female students. I had the misfortune of starting college early, as in my 17th birthday. That's bad enough, and it gets worse. I had this complete shrew of a roommate at the beginning of my junior year who was recovering from an eating disorder (can't fault her for this) and accused me of having one when she would never even talk to me herself (will fault her all over the place for this). She had a heyday when some of my Artist Series dresses from the previous year no longer checked, or were borderline. Deneen Lawson (I'm not going to cover for her anymore) called me into her office and treated me like absolute dirt, accusing me of having an eating disorder, accusing me of being pregnant when I knew I wasn't, you name it. She was horrible. I actually had to sneak around and hide from my roommates and her when I wanted simple snacks after that. It's a miracle I did not actually develop an eating disorder that semester. At Thanksgiving, I went home and had to go to the doctor for an illness. To my surprise, I found out I had a last-gasp growth spurt. Yes, I had gained weight from the year before, but I had also grown an inch taller. Yes, I was in so much trouble for... growth. I lost all respect for Deneen and never regained any of it.