University of Massachusetts-Amherst Top Questions

What's the most frustrating thing about University of Massachusetts-Amherst?

Derya

The most frustrating thing is getting spaces in classes.

Vanessa

When I lived on campus, the laundry rooms were poorly maintained.

Lauren

The most frustrating thing comes as an effect of its size. It's easy become to discouraged by the idea that you're "just a number". A lot of classes are huge, and sometimes, getting the classes you want seems impossible. Still, for such a large school, the faculty is very responsive to students in general. It's only frustrating that we have to cooperate with tens of thousands of others,

Melanie

Not enough diversity, it's in the middle of nowhere

Amanda

The most frustrating thng about my school is that there is so manny people that when it comes time to choose housing, its hard to get the room you want if you do not get a good picking date. geting a picking date is also comepletely random, I beileve that it should be the same as picking classes, you get your date based on how manny credits you have.

Azeez

Being a senior and unable to acquire a single room residency. Seniors should be given preference on single room selection because they are only there for one more year and should be treated with respect and fair accomodation.

Ashton

Again, the size could be frusterating because as with any large school, there are students who slack off and party too much, with attracts more media than the overwhelming amount of students who excell and take their college experience seriously and that was very frusterating for me throughout my undergraduate experience. Also the students who attend the Isenberg School of Management are privileged over the other students when it comes to funding and quality of life (the classrooms and funded traveling expenses...etc).

Lindsey

The size makes it hard to meet new people and keep in touch with them. The class structure is lecture based which can be hard for learning and developing relationships

Nhan

The school would hire incompetent professors (not sure if they are qualified as professors) to teach the students; however, those professors would not do their job right rather than giving impossible tasks and never teach the class without relying on books or powerpoints.

Faried

Getting into the habit of going to the library everyday. I found this works well for me, and it helps me. It is hard doing homework in the dorm room where all your friends are.