University of Massachusetts-Amherst Top Questions

The size! Though awesome, in the winter walking 20 minutes through snow to a class is tough. A lot of hill which can get icy and a little dangerous going to class. Class is almost never called off all day, usually only until around noon, once the roads are salted. The campus also floods a decent amount, and from late November to March and even into April, you can count on a LOT of precipitation.

All the smoking on campus is irritating. Also, being a state university with a reputation for being a party school, there are a lot of people that shouldn't even be in college in my personal opinion.

the campus is large, so when there is bad weather, going to class and where ever you neeed to go is so awful. Everything gets wet and then you have to either do laundry or hang all your wet stuff in your room so it smells funny.

The most frustrating thing is that course enrollment is often a difficult process. It seems as if University tries to offer perquisites for courses are in non consequential order. In summation I feel that the University tries to extend ones college career in order to increase profit. Th financial aid sytem is not balanced. I am a student from a single parent home, and I also have a younger brother. Financial aid does not take into acount, that the net gross of a single parent has to sustain three individuals not soley pay for a bachelors degree.

Probably the number of people you have to go through in order to find the person you actually need to talk to. The Dean of Students Office is very helpful at pointing you in the right direction, but a lot of the time I have questions that require input from multiple people in multiple departments, and it's difficult sometimes to schedule time to meet with all of them.

The most frustrating thing about my school is that it is very far away from resources that I as an African American female use in my everyday life. Also the grocercy stores in the area are very expensive.

The most frustrating thing about my school would be finding where things are located. Due to the size of the school its hard to find out where you need to go to complete certain tasks such as getting to class, speaking to an advisor, getting involved in activities, and finding friends. Asa result a lot of opportunites get missed that shouldn't be and this creates great stress.

MEFA has taken away its financial aid.

the snow clean up.

walking distance to classes.