August 27, 2002 10:32 AM

Well, it's not exactly Cell Block D

Now here's something that you can threaten your high-school-aged children with; "If you don't knock it off, we're going to send you to the University of Missouri-Rolla!!" OH, GOD, NO...ANYTHING BUT THAT!!!!

The Princeton Reviews's latest college survey was, apparently, none too impressed with the school.

Citing "dungeon dorms," bad food and poor community relations, The Princeton Review's latest college survey says Agee and his classmates at the university should be the unhappiest students in the country....

The review, which surveyed 100,000 students nationwide, placed Missouri-Rolla last in the quality of life ranking of its "Best 345 Colleges" guide -- the bottom of the heap in a section called Purgatory.

The publication said Missouri-Rolla also suffered from inaccessible professors and political apathy. The school took more lumps for its tiny size and supposedly bad food -- it ranked 20th in the food ranking, making it the best of the bad.

Ask the students, though, and you get a much different picture:

Many students at the predominantly male college say they're content: Classes are rigorous, Internet access is top notch, and there's free cable in every dorm room. Yahoo! once ranked it one of the nation's most wired campuses.

If the students are in purgatory, that may be because they're waiting for better times: Within three months of graduation, nearly all students have jobs and earn an average salary of $47,000.

Which only goes to prove, I suppose, that you can be happy anywhere, if you put your mind to it. It appears that Missouri-Rolla has some distinguished company in Purgatory: Georgia Institute of Technology, Loyola Marymount University, Brandeis University and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

Of course, we all know what opinions are like, right??

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