I absolutely love it here. My only major complaint is that sometimes things coming from higher ups gets jumbled and it comes across as unorganized but they're restructuring everything to try to fix that. The main reason I chose PSU was how friendly everyone is. The staff is great and they specifically have the experts in the field teach the lessons on that topic so you get a lot of high quality information.
There's no competitive environment really. We just switched to unranked first 2 years pass/fail so there's no reason to be. They also are starting societies which are essentially like the houses at Hogwarts complete with the same colors which I love the idea of. I'll be able to give more insight to how they work in practice once it actually starts but the principle behind it is to give us a chance to network and build a career and to learn valuable lessons outside the classroom. I think it'll be great.
Everyone here seems happy. Although there isn't a gigantic amount of stuff to do on the town, you can always find good people to hang with. My friends and I have sushi nights where we make our own sushi and House nights where we watch episodes of house and try to find the things they did right and the things they did wrong.
