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Intro

If you like to wear eyepatches to class, keep your hidden treasure under your bed, and cackle like a pirate while your team crushes the opposition, I'm the school for you. I'm Millersvillle U, but they call the Marauder.

So yes, please read this in pirate-voice.

I began as a school for teachers. I've got awesome business and biology programs, but education be me forte. In fact, teachers who graduated from me have sailed over to each of the fifty states. Not bad, eh?

Not to be too much of a braggart, but I'm pretty sure my students are going to take over the world. And no, I don't mean taking over the world "Dr. Evil-style." They've helped me win awards in diversity, community outreach programs, and having an environmentally-friendly campus. I'm pretty sure they're all pirate rock stars.

Okay...so I'm not an actual pirate. I'm truthfully more known for my two swans that live on campus, Miller and S'Ville (who are basically joined at the hip). They're my unofficial mascots and known for being partners for life. It's definitely cute, but I don't want people to forget I can be a pirate sometimes too.

Name

The Marauder

Hometown

Millersville, Pennsylvania, and if you can't find me, just look in the backyard of Lancaster, PA.

Birthdate

1855

Body Type

I prefer to stay on the slim side, with around 8,500 students. Even though I'm smaller than the other public schools around me, I still have just as much to offer my students: Greek life, research grants, student-run organizations, and a club for just about anything. The longboarding club is pretty notorious around these parts.

Love to learn in giant, crowded lecture halls? Great, me neither. I have a student to faculty ratio of 22:1, so chances are you'll get to know your professors and other students really well. In fact, I have some of the most caring and dedicated professors around. They might not answer your text at 4:00AM, but they will certainly stay after their scheduled office hours to help students in need. You're in good hands, my friend.

Current Living Situation

So here's the deal. Freshmen, I hate to say it, but you don't really get a choice your first year here: you have to live in the dorms, you don't get to pick what hall, and you get a random roommate. Want to share a dorm with your best friend from high school? It probably won't happen.

Like I said, I'm big on diversity, so you'll meet or live with other students who have a different ethnic or religious background than you. International students from all over the world will open your eyes to new thoughts and experiences. Whether or not your roommate will end up being your soulmate or your arch-nemesis, I can't say.

When you hit the sixty credit mark around your sophomore year, the housing department will set you free to fend for yourself in the wild. Well, not really. By then you can choose to live off campus. You could share an old house on George Street with three (or more) of your closest companions, or find an apartment in one of the several awesome complexes near downtown Lancaster. 

Whether you want to live near a cornfield, or reside within the boundaries of the artsy and growing Lancaster City, the choice is up to you.

Relationship Status

If you're looking for a football-style Batman and Joker rivalry during the fall semester, I'm probably not the choice for you. Truthfully, girls' field hockey is more competitive here than football. When it comes to rivalries or competitors, I don't really have any.

Religion

No affiliations here, but if you're interested in me, remember: I really do care about the diversity of my students. You'll see atheists, Roman Catholics, Mennonites, Buddhists, Muslims, and almost everything in between on my campus. Don't be turned off by the name Lancaster, you really have to keep an open mind around here.

Politics

Like I said earlier, no affiliations but keep an open mind here. My student's political opinions are all over the map: you'll meet the typical right and left-wing parties, but you'll also see anarchists, Marxists, libertarians, and anything else you can think of. What's also pretty great here is that you can spend your time learning about all of them, and not believing in any single one of them. Freedom, dude.

You should apply to me if...

you're more interested in sitting around with friends on a Saturday night planning to solve world hunger than watching a football game.

Website

http://www.millersville.edu/