University of California-Riverside Top Questions

The lack of a football team and activites on campus during the weekends. This is also exacerbated by the lack of a Greek row of housing, thusly fraternities and sororities plan parties during the weekdays and at scatterred venues throughout the area.

I believe that every school has its pros and cons, but for Riverside, the most frustrating thing about this school is the way that people look towards this school. It frustrates me when people tend to think of UCR as not a very academic school compared to UCLA. It is obvious that UCLA has much more resources and is a bigger campus, but UCR does have standards, and I believe is a better school to attend rather than junior colleges. Riverside is not a horrible school in general. It is a University and a place to receive your degree.

The neighborhood around campus is not the best; lots of friends had things stolen from their homes.

The excess amount of commuters. Everyone leaves on the weekends and this makes it difficult to arrange a study group or even check out a party with a friend from class! Not to mention you need a car to get around, the closest clubs/good bars are in L.A. which is an hour and a half drive from here (in no traffic).

The recreation center is a joke compared to other UC campuses.

Certain professors, some intro classes are very large

UCR hires the worst TAs. They don't even speak correct english and have heavy accents. Facilities are run down. Some teacher are just plain rude and unhelpful and no one ever either understands them or learns anything from the class. Tests aren't even from the lectures or books read. Terrible.

The crowds during construction. So many people trying to get through small areas, and then you get the people who are too busy doing something else to realize they are moving too slow.

The most frustrating thing about my school are the prices for book, they are expensive. And there is no beach. The closest beach is Newport. So that means you need a car.

The most frustrating thing about my school is its location, I wish it was closer to my hometown