University of Florida Top Questions

The work load can get overwhelming if you don't keep up with it.

Nothing, I love it!

The most frustrating thing about the University of Florida is the size and seemingly unplanned layout of the campus. You see, the University of Florida started sitting on University Avenue and blossomed from there, organically, without any true rhyme or reason. Departments will pop up in one place, and then expand a few years later, in a distant and confusingly misplaced part of campus. On the bright side of this however, you'll find your buildings you need to go and your shortcuts you need to take in no time, and soon enough, it'll be just like home.

The most frustrating thing about the University of Florida is one of the more superficial reasons. The facilities are simply old. The laboratories are in a state of disrepair and a lot of the equipment is old and rusty. The elevators in my dorm are consistently broken down and some of the desktops seem to have been made for people half the average student’s size. Other than that though, there’s not much to complain about. The faculty is top notch and I’ve learned an immense amount in my short time here.

Parking on campus

The Advising office always gave me poor advice - reccomended classes I didn't need or talked me out of pre-req's I wanted to take (i.e. wanting to take pre-chemistry since I had never had chemistry. They advised against it and I struggled in the Chem 1 course and all the following because I never mastered the basics.) I never had the same advisor twice. Also many of the professors and TA's were not english-speaking natives which made understanding lectures and asking questions difficult at times.

Not knowing my way around campus yet makes it hard to feel confident about where my classes are. Summer sessions are shorter than most and I feel like I have not had much time to mingle and make new friends as quickly as I would have wanted.

The most frustrating thing about UF is the feeling of getting lost in the immenseness of the school. Class sizes are large for general education requirements, which can make you feel like just another student in the crowd instead of an individual. It can take time to figure out your personal place in the school because there are so many different oppurtunities and groups pulling you in different directions.

The most frustrating thing about my school was adjusting academically and socially to the rediculously large campus.

Professors sometimes do not care about their students and accordingly students don't do well.