University of Minnesota-Twin Cities Top Questions

The school is sold on Social Justice, yet students have recently become dollar signs instead of individuals. The school is focusing more on expanding and growing versus keeping the small community that they are trying to sell to incoming students. Tuition prices have more than doubled in the last 5 years. The school has been spending money on growing and increasing the student body, making lassroom sizes bigger and making staff and faculty overworked.

The worst thing about our school are the days that it is below zero outside because you sometimes have to walk a long way to class.

The in the mathematics and engineering classes the T.A. barely speak english and it is hard to learn from them. When the communication is hindered by a language barrier student are much less amped to seek out help when needed.

The busing can be slow at times, which can make it hard to get to class on time because there are two different campuses.

Perhaps the size and variety of options can be very daunting for new students. The University is home to 50,000 students and is very near the heart of a large metropolitan area. However, it does not take long for people to get acclamated and really get a small-town community feeling while on the campus and even out in the city. Despite the confusion, this place has a niche and something to offer for every person, sometimes it just take a bit of looking to find it.

Most of the social events revolve around sororities or fraternities. However, you can still easily get into fraternity parties.

The large classrooms.

I was a transfer student in the spring of 2007 and I felt that the resources to help transfer students adjust to the new campus were lacking.

I have more motivation to stay in bed on weekends or to miss class in the mornings because of the cold weather.

I'm really glad that they offer my unique major (Speech Language Hearing Sciences) but since not many students are enrolled under this major, they only offer each class at a single, specific time in the year. Having your classes layed out for you each semester isn't bad unless, for example, you learn about the major in the spring and find out that many classes of the introductory courses are only offered in the fall.

The weather during the winter - it canbe hard to get to classes when it is -20 degrees out. The U has a tunnel system called the Gopher Way that connects a lot of the buldings but in some areas of campus takes longer to walk through them then to go outside.

In the winter, the snowplow doesn't come as often as it should and the roads are really icy.

Its size scares people away.

The grading curve presents competition between students which makes it hard to cooperatively study for exams and group projects.

Honestly, I believe that the worst thing about this school is the size of the dorms. They are basically big enough for one closet and two bunk beds (the bed on top and the desk under - sorry don't know exact name for them). There is not enough room for privacy or even additional furniture.

Honestly? I think the food is the worst thing here. I lost 15 pounds the first month I was here (and I was not overweight at all) because the dorm food was inedible. There are restaurants in the student union, but that tends to get rather expensive. I would love it if I could get a decently healthy meal on campus for less than $7 .

Some classes do not offer enough individual attention, making it hard to learn in a different way than the class is taught. Teacher or TA office hours are either minimal or filled with other students, making it hard to get help or ask questions.

nothing really

Cost and advising...they just suck

The CLA building looks like crap, bathrooms are horrible. Price are rising like crazy. I don't know why they charge certain fees like Lab fees and we end up using the crapiest oldest materials. Art fees are just as bad, we pay so much and nothing is new, old crap. They also charged us for the NEW GOPHER STADUIM! which I didn't have a say at all, I truly believe we don't need a NEW staduim, but it is charged automatically. I DON'T UNDERSTAND THESE STUPID FEES they JUST KEEP CHARING ON US!!!!