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I have spent 4 years of my life at this place, and that's not an insignificant amount of time!  Looking back, I'd have to say that I did enjoy my time at Johnny Hops, but I also know that I could have been happier if I had gone elsewhere.  (Disclaimer:  these are just my own thoughts.  I'm sure there are others who loved JHU all around.)  Academically the university is phenomenal... so I guess the education really is worth the $30,000+ per year it cost me (well, my parent's really).  I met some real geniuses at Johns Hopkins, and it was a place that really did stimulate deep thought.

On the flip side, I felt that the university suffered from lack of student involvement.  There was the student council, student activities commission, and other student organizations just like any other college, but I found myself wondering why the enthusiastic student spirit was not there.  I felt it was a problem with Hopkins... or maybe my expectations were too high. 

My freshman year at Hopkins was my best year by far =)  I was in Willard AMR I, aka crazy/fun/wild house!  I really enjoyed experiencing the dorm life because I was able to see it for myself and formulate my own opinions on it rather than hearing all these stereotypes and basing my opinions on those.  I lived in a very friendly dorm, and my frosh year I made many friends, many of whom I still keep in touch with.  Of course there was the occassional drunken roommate puking all over my floor aka *khana chore*, but other than that it was smooth sailing... ;)  My sophomore year, I lived in the Bradford in an efficiency.         
My junior and senior years, I lived in University One Condominiums right across from Hopkins with a roommate, Uma.  We had some fun and crazy times! 

In my second year at JHU, I realized that I had an interest in entrepreneuship, so I picked up a minor as well (entrepreneurship & business management).  I was enjoying my civil engineering classes along with my business classes, but I decided to enhance my experience even further by joining several organizations on campus.  In my sophomore year, I was the vice-president of the Muslim Students' Association.  I was also heavily involved in the Interfaith Council my four years.  In my junior year, I became the president of the MSA.  At the end of my junior year, I felt a void at Hopkins.  I did not see a cultural organization that I could really be a part of, so I decided to take on the challenge with a few awesome people (Ali, Imran, Asad, Zainab) to start a Pakistani Students' Association (PSA). My senior year I was the co-president of the PSA and the president of the Society of Women Engineers (SWE).   
Gilman Tower at Johns Hopkins