The University of Montana Top Questions

I wish I knew all the different activites that go on out of shool. All the different fishing, hunting, sking and out door activites that are put together by students.

The scholarships/financial aid, quite simply, is terrible. I wish I would have chosen schools who would give me more scholarship/grant opportunities.

I wish I had known my major before I came to school. My major was 'undecided' for my first semester of college. I was able to start off with mostly general education requirements. However, had I known my major I may have been able to get a head start of the classes I needed to work towards my degree. Now, I am slightly behind towards getting the credits I need in order to graduate. But I am prepared to work hard and try to complete my Medical Technology degree in order to begin a year-long internship.

I wish that i would have known more about the academic and career help that is offered.

That there is a lot of smoking around campus, but our school is trying to clean that act up.

Before coming to the university, I wish I would have known about the clubs that the school offers. After moving to the campus, I was not very involved in the school or in the community. However, after some initial research on the university website I was able to find my desired club. If I had been more keen on the clubs that are offered, I could have met more people and been more involved in community service and school projects.

I wish I had known that I would have to study harder than I did in high school because I did not study very much my first year of college and learned the hard way that studying is important. I now study every day for at least two to three hours.

It would have been beneficial to know that the weather in Missoula is quite unpredictable. Some days it is snowy and far below zero, others it is warm and dry. This fall, it was -10 degrees Fahrenheit during the homecoming parade, but now it is January and it is a balmy 32 degrees outside. It rains occasionally, snows during the winter, and is sometimes too sunny to walk outside without sunglasses. While it is inadvisable to take trip in Missoula without layering or putting a jacket in the backseat, it is undeniably gorgeous.

I wish I had known about the people I would meet coming to school. I have met the most knowledgable professors and teachers' assistants, and I couldn't ask for a better teaching staff. I wish I would have known more about the diversity of classes offered to me. There are so many classes I did not know were available to me and knowing that now makes the university much more appealing.

Before I came to the University of Montana, I wish that I was more aware of the scholarships they offered. I did apply for a few scholarships before I entered college, but it wasn't until I was midway through school when I became aware of the wide variety of scholarships offered there. Financial aid for college has always been a crucial issue to most incoming freshmen. Perhaps if there were easier, more user-friendly ways to look and apply for scholarships, more people could attend college without a significant financial burden.

The general consensus seems to be that the University of Montana as a whole is accepting of all: all religions, opinions, genders/sexual orientations, etc. However, I have found that politically, the scales are tipped far to the left. This is hardly unusual for a liberal arts school, but it was not something I had considered before coming here. Now that I am older, I have developed my political opinions more fully, and discovered that I am clearly in the minority at my school. I accept this fully, yet I would have liked to know what I was in for.

I wish I would have known how to snowboard, most of the students here love to go skiing and snowboarding. :)

Exactly what major i would want for sure, so i could finish in less time.

Nothing. I love everything about this school, I have not had any problems adjusting or any misconceptions about it.

I wish I had known about out of state tuition.

how much fun i would have

very very liberal campus. Many "hippies", but still love it! Have sort of turned to that lifestyle myself :D

I really can't think of anything. I grew up visiting it and knew pretty much all I needed to.

Not sure.

That it was going to take me 4 years to graduate instead of the 2 that I had planned on when I transferred from community college.