The University of Texas at Austin Top Questions

The activities on campus are often hard to attend if you don't live near the campus

The University of Texas was a huge culture shock for me. I graduated with 96 students, including myself, and was thrown into a school with an unbelievable class size. The number of students at UT is responsible for the incredible diversity as well, which was strange. Looking back, the size and differences may not be bad, technically, it was just a huge shock for a small town girl.

The worst thing about the school might be that it is very big and hard to get to know your proffesors but if you really try and go out your way, it is possible.

Classes too large. Difficult to establish relationships with professors and system processes.

The worst thing about UT is the distance between your classes. Class periods vary by 10 - 15 minutes where as the school is so large that it takes longer walking to the location. The buses are also packed and dont run on time. This affects your punctuality and nothing more.

The Uniersity of Texas at Austin is very big and has many resourses, but there are very few people that know how to take full advantage of it all. There are many things goign on all the time and too many options. This can be very time consuming and overwhelming if not handled properly.

The worst thing about The University of Texas at Austin is that the campus is largely seperated by colleges or degree types and you find that co-mingling among the different colleges is few and far between. Each college has it's own library and general eating area/housing clusters which can be usefull when finding study partners and future field partners, but not so helpful when you want to branch out and discover knew things.

The worst thing about the university is that it seems to have grown too large for its own good. UT Austin currently accomodates 50,000 students and recently erected several brand new buildings on campus for a total of some 30+ million dollars; but, at the same time as it was doing this, budget cuts were proposed in the foreign language departments - the department of my major, Japanese Language. Because of this, the Russian Language studies department, one of the smaller departmnets, may not exist at UT in the fall of 2011.

Parking is very hard to find, and many people end up paying for a parking pass to a lot that isn't very close to the college. Also apartment prices in the area are very high.

The worst thing about the University of Texas at Austin is that for most of the year, the temperature exceeds 85 degrees, and walking to class can make you sweat. I had a 15-20 minute walk to every class because I lived in an off-campus dorm and most of the fall semester days were blazing hot.