I went to Dalhousie for 1.5 years and studied Creative Writing. I went into a severe acute…read morepsychosis and had severe paranoid delusions during that time. My school made the decision to call the mobile crisis line to get peace officers to come and do wellness checks on me daily sometimes multiple times a day for multiple days. The police and peace officers were extremly well trained to do their jobs. They invited me to church with them and ensured my well being was good. They came with 8 peace officers and involuntarily took me against my will to the emergency room and forcefully medicated me. They sat by my side, fed me snacks and talked to me for over 12 hours until I was admitted to the emergency room. I finally given psych treatment that I needed for over 3 years. The police and peace officers that Dal contacted actually advocated for me to get a TON of resources including assisted living, a work program for people with disabilities, psych nurses to come to my home weekly to check in on me and unlimited food. I am forever grateful for their decision to contact the peace officers to involuntarily admitted me into the psych unit because multiple professionals refused to get me treatment in the past for years and I got brain damage because of it. I thank God everyday for this school getting me the treatment and resources that I needed to survive and reach my full potential. Sadly I had to leave school due to my acute psychosis and brain damage but I will be forever grateful for them advocating for me to get the resources that I needed to survive and thrive.

Many of the professors at Dalhousie are great, but the university as a whole is a complete scam…read more Administration cares so little for its professors and students that they are willing to jeopardize staff and student health and safety. My college, the school of health and human performance, on campus was falling apart and reeked of dead rats. My residence was filled with asbestos and I would hazard to guess that proper precautions were not taken during renovations. Please, please go elsewhere. Any scholarship they offer you is simply a ploy to take more courses. Don't fall for Dalhousie's garbage. If I could rate this less than 1 star, I would.

What do I like about this campus? It is located in a nice spot in north end Halifax with views…read moreoverlooking the basin. One day I was talking to a construction worker at the water fountain and he told me the building recently had $6 million worth of renovations. There is a nice new library at the front of the building with large picture windows. I heard from the Novanet online librarian that NSCC will be getting electronic resources this year in November. That will put community college on par with the university libraries. At the front of the building there is a Starbucks and you can also get the Metro and the Coast. Another feature I like are the hydration stations where you can refill your water bottle with fresh clean cool water, with a Britta filter. There is a beautiful living wall of plants when you walk into the wings. I have never seen anything like it, anywhere! You get a lot of skill based training here which is important in today's job market. The building has wi-fi too. You can stay after class and work on the schools computers which have a lot of software on them. The cafeteria seems busy every day. I see people eating Italian food and wraps, so I think the menu is tasty and healthy too. And there is an active Student Association. Learn more at http://www.nscc.ca/

What do I not like about this campus? They hire people who don't know how to teach just because…read morethey know how to work in their field.

I was a transfer student with a 96% academic average and perfect attendance. I went into a severe…read moreacute psychosis and started demonstrating severe paranoid delisions during my third year. The professionals at the school did not take the time to talk to me and get to know me and isntead they labeled me as bullying my professors, expelled me and banned me from the property for life. They took away all forms of communication from me to prevent me from getting justice and told me I needed to hire a lawyer to talk to them while I was living in severe poverty. They never made sure that I got treatment from a peace officer for my acute psychosis and paranoid delusions so I stayed in my severe acute psychosis for over 3 years. Due to the length of time I went with my psychosis untreated I now have been diagnosed with severe brain damage and memory problems. They should have spent more time talk to me and getting to know my situation to ensure that they could have gotten me treatment from a peace officer and giving me involuntary treatment for my acute psychosis but their only goal was to maintain their reputation and sales so they didn't bother getting me treatment from a peace officer when they desperately should have done so. They ruined my transcripts with a false suspension and expulsion due to labeling my acute psychosis as breaking a rule and bullying my professors when it wasn't that at all and it has prevented me from getting into new schools and prevented me from getting a career. I demand that they remove my suspension and expulsion from my transcripts to ensure I can go to a new school across the country and get a career to be as successful as I can be. There was never a rule broken and they overlooked my acute psychosis while being very uneducated about how to get a peace officer to involuntarily give me treatment to prevent this from happening again to de escalate the situation. I demand justice and peace for myself and others in this situation. I demand that they reach out to me because they are ignoring me until I pay for a lawyer while living in severe poverty. My statute of limitations for legal actions would be extended about 3 years due to being in a psychosis for 3 years. They have threatened me with lawsuits with their lawyer as well which are baseless. I have NO FEARS and NOTHING else to loose from this school. I DEMAND JUSTICE IT'S BEEN OVER THREE YEARS.

If I could pick a zero I would!Worst experience at a university. A lot of the professors don't care…read moreabout their students. They don't work with you in anyway to help you achieve your goals. This university just wants your money and nothing more. No one to support their students! Shameful!

I was a student of the centre for arts and technology. Not the one in Halifax so I can't speak…read moreabout that campus but I can speak about the Fredericton campus. I left half way through. If you do go to the centre for arts and technology make sure you only pay by quarter because getting a refund is a nightmare. The first three months of my animation program was made up of Word, PowerPoint, and Excel. No animation. There was an insane amount of professional development. I guess that's cheap to teach. Most of the instructors seem to be right out of school or out of their element. And VCU, don't get me started on trying to learn animation by VCU (Video conference unit). They seem to be moving more toward VCU becasue more of my classes were being taught from another campus. My advice, for any college you plan to attend not just the centre for arts and technology, talk to current and former students. If the college doesn't let you - walk away. I paid alot for my year there. It was an expensive lesson. Ronald Reagan said it best, and this relates to recruiters, "trust but verify"

I can only speak for the Animation course in which I say you'll be met with brilliant, funny,…read morecaring teachers, who have a passion and interest in the industry. When students come back after graduating to visit they are greeted like an old friend who they generally are interested to hear from and curious to see improvements. I suffer with dysthymia and generalized anxiety disorder in which I worried.. naturally, but they are respectful and flexible with my conditions. This is a wonderful course if you have the drive and persistence for animation.

What do I like about this building? Strong wifi and lots of power outlets…read more Sure, there are floors of offices, labs, classrooms, servers, Big Brother, mainframes, hackers, geeks, nerds, mad geniuses, and ... okay, I have no idea what's in this building. I have one class there but I like what I see. The downstairs area is home to a Second Cup (which is almost never busy!) and a student lounge area. Some might mistake this as a study area - it's not. Students can get quite loud and boisterous. But as above, powerful wifi and lots of outlets for your devices.

Small class sizes, but felt like high school all over again…read more I was very surprised that so many students had some kind of disability. Many of the profs do not communicate well with students. It was even more sad to find out most profs were NOT FULL TIME EMPLOYEES, meaning they were only there for a few months and then poof they are gone forever! Cheap tuition but personally I think this university is terrible in comparison to NSCC, Dal and SMU. The people in general can be a lot better and more supportive than at MSVU.

If I were to go back to school, the only way I'd return to Mount Saint Vincent University is if I…read morewas taking my Education course. I attended the Mount for a very short period of time. I found that more than 70% of the population were woman and not very friendly. I found most of them to be 'stuck up'. The only positive about this school is that your are more than a student than a 'student number'. The classes were quite a bit smaller so you seemed like an actually person. The University itself is probably one of the smaller ones in Halifax. It's always clean and the gym there was great.

I spend a lot of time here. Not for the College of Continuing Ed, but because the College of…read moreSustainability is on the first floor. They have a really nice work space in their office space that I like to take advantage of while I'm at the university, and the perks of having a kettle available are definitely not lost on this caffeine lover! The seating in the "common areas" of the Mona Campbell building (which is where the College of Continuing Ed and College of Sustainability are) is usually full of students, but if you can nab one it's a pretty comfy place to sit and work or to people watch. There are lots of students around all the time! The pizza place, Topio's, also does pretty great fast-food style pizza. A slice is huge and they have a decent variety. But I gotta say I much prefer their coffee - definitely some of the best on campus!

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