[lorrin]

I'm studying at a community college in RI now (travel tourism major) and want to transfer to Hawaii Pacific for their travel industry management. Just wondering if anyone can tell me more about Hawaii Pacific and TIM. How's the atmosphere like? The students/professors? Any information is greatly appreciated.

[dogs7268]

I'm studying at a community college in RI now (travel tourism major) and want to transfer to Hawaii Pacific for their travel industry management. Just wondering if anyone can tell me more about Hawaii Pacific and TIM. How's the atmosphere like? The students/professors? Any information is greatly appreciated.

During club sign up week, I remember seeing a booth for travel industry management. I'm not really sure how the clubs are because I signed up for about 10 clubs and a lot of them never even started.

Hawai'i Pacific University consists of two major campuses. There's the Hawai'i Loa campus on the Windward side which is where the student dorms and cafeteria are located and the other is the Downtown Campus. Most of the science related courses (nursing) are taught at the Hawai'i Loa campus. One of my friends decided to use the school dorms located at Hawai'i Loa campus and he said it's very humid up there. There's no air conditioning and he had a lot of laundry to do at the end of the week. The benefits of that campus is the view (it's on the mountainside so you will be amazed at first), the cafeteria, and the workout gym. Also, it is much easier to meet people on that side of the campus because the dorms have a lounging area where most students hang out.

The downtown campus is on a street called Fort Street. This is basically a street crammed with restaurants and school buildings. There is a student center where you can buy food, use the pool table or foozball, watch tv, and use the wireless internet. A wise word of warning though, there are many homeless people who wander around this street because Chinatown is right next to the downtown campus. Besides that, the professors are really well rounded. They are very knowledgeable about their expertise and focus more on the students than bigger universities since HPU class sizes range from 15-20 people. I'm not sure about the nursing courses, or other science courses, but HPU in general is a small school. As for the students, every kind of culture can be found there.

If you decide to live on the Windward side, the shuttle service runs for most of the day and takes 15 minutes to arrive at the downtown campus. The downtown side will take 30 minutes from the Ohia, which is 1 of the 3 student housing buildings located downtown.

After 2-3 months, my friend on the Windward side told me he hated living up there because of the reasons listed above. Since I lived downtown, the beach was literally my backyard. It's a 5-10 minute walk from my student housing apartment to the beach. There are many tourists there since Waikiki, the town where the student apartments Ohia and Hana are located, is where the beach is, and where most of the hotels are located. Hawaii is VERY laid back. I heard on a tv show that some businesses don't operate on Saturday, but I know for a fact that businesses don't open until 2 P.M. on Sundays.

Let me know if you have any further questions.

[lorrin]

wow you are so great! thank you for the info!