University of California-Santa Barbara Top Questions

How Expensive eveything is, and that the nearby places know we have no choice but to pay the outrageous prices.

It is very hard to acquire the classes one needs. The student to porfessor ratio is very high as well

That would have to be picking classes for each quarter, the freshman are just given all this information and we are expected to disect and figure it all out with minimal help, so for me the most frustrating thing would be picking classes at the start of every new quarter.

On the rare occasion that it decides to rain, the bike paths and pedestrian walkways can be flooded and make going to class or home more difficult.

The most frustrating thing is the fact that it is on a quarter system which means there are only 10 weeks of class and then we have finals. It can be challenging and overwhelming at times because it goes by very fast.

The most frustrating thing has to be the people who smoke on campus.

Almost every student has a problem with their campus in one way or another. During my stay on my campus I have found that trying to gain advice from councelors and advisors is a huge problem. There are many advisors that tell you to go somewhere else for answers and that turns into a very large circle of confusion. The people are very courteous but have little information, even in their own departments.

I do not really see anything to be fustrated about in my school. They have many helpful resources that you can go to. The people here are really nice, and helpful. We have many places were we can study, and do our homework.

For myself, probably that everyone expects everyone else to drink and smoke, while I do none of that.

large classrooms with many students. courses taught rapidly due to the quarter system.

If it is the weekend and you want to get any studying accomplished, you have to go to the librar or some other desognated study area. if you live in Isla Vista you will go out and party if you stay at home, its not like you'll be sleeping or studying with hundreds of people trapsing around outside.

How expensive it is and the lack of diversity there.

There are a lot of snobby students, or people who did not take education seriously.

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There are a lot of students! It can be hard to get popular prerequisite classes if you don't get priority registration for being in the honors program.

nothing.

The most frustrating thing about UCSB is the finals schedule. Finals are commonly on the same day.

Very body image focused. Everybody is very pretty.

The parking situation at UCSB is very frustrating.

The most frustrating thing about UC Santa Barbara is taking personal responsibility for your academic success. With the beach surrounding one side of campus and the mountains on the other, it is very easy to get distracted by outside activities and not focus on classes. It is each student's responsibilit to fight the "party school" reputation that SB has attracted in the past by showing the great academic success that can be achieved.