University of New Mexico-Main Campus Top Questions

The most frustrating thing about the University of New Mexico is getting through the administrative paper work and process. There is a lot to keep on top of, but I don't think that it is unique to a University setting. Other than that, I feel that this school does a great job in all other aspects.

The cost of attending is rising and I fear that we may see les qualified professors teaching at the school because of state budget cuts.

The social situation is quite bad. On the weekends there are hardly any students on campus. Most students live off campus, far away, which means that after classes there are few students left around campus.

The most frustrating thing would have to be having to work part time and and still meet the requirements of bills, tuition, and my course load. I receive some financial aid by what is know as the Lottery Scholarships, as most students at my school also receive, but the cost of tuition and books force me to work more and focus on school less. This also makes it hard to stay on track with my degree curriculum. Also the core curriculum that my school requires every student to take. It takes 3 or 4 semesters to complete that core curriculum.

The different departments such as Registrar, Bursars, etc are not on the same page. One department will say one thing, and the other will say something else. Students here have to be on top of everything by themselves, otherwise the school and mess up there information and it will be a hard time fixing it. The constant construction is frustrating too because it limits the availability of certain classes, which makes it difficult to create a good schedule or the schedule that will work best.

Every higher level math teacher is foreign. And of course they all have a really thick accent. Its discouraging when you are trying to understands the fundamentals of calculus and you have no idea what your teacher is saying.

At UNM, a student will often find themselves hard-pressed to find answers to general queries that seem simple, being tossed back and forth between several different departments before even the inkling of an answer has been found. When tossed into the whirlwind processes of the University's bureaucratic system, the answers have been lost, become untouchable, and can destroy the "can-do attitude" of nearly any striving student. This could be a very intricately hidden means of creating that self reliance a student needs to thrive in the college environment. If that's so, then, "Congratulations, UNM!"

The most frustrating thing about my school is that the students have so many petty complaints about insignificant things and the teachers go along with all of their complaint-tactics and accomodate that small percentage of students that complain about ridiculous things.

The food at my cafeteria

Hands down, the advisement for classes! they're awful!