University of Washington-Seattle Campus Top Questions

The campus is very large and isn't all on flat terrain, so there is tons of walking that takes some getting used to.

The most frustrating thing about my school is working on group projects with other students since it is all online. It makes it a lot harder to communicated with other students across the globe. We have made it work through the use of conference calls, discussion boards, emails, and wikis. Currently I am working on a project where four students have to write one paper. To accomplish this task I setup a wiki so we could work on the same document and see the changes others are making. This has worked really well so far.

There are restrictions on who can take classes and when they can take them. I debated trying to major in architecture but when i tried to register for the classes I found out you can only apply as a freshman or sophmore and I had missed a class I had to take in fall quarter. So the most frustrating thing is that majors are so competitive there are limited oppurtunities to apply and limited time to decide what you want to do.

There are over five thousand freshman, and it is virtually impossible to get a scholarships to help pay for school, even if your parents don't help pay for it. It would be so much nicer at the University of Washington if they had more opportunities to make the cost of attendance a little more affordable when I will be living off campus in an apartment and working to pay for rent and living costs.

There aren't a lot of Spanish classes - if you aren't a Spanish major, there is pretty much no way you'll be able to take Spanish. I had to give up on my minor because of this.

There was no advising help whatsoever at the UW. I had to find any and all answers to problems on my own. It would have been helpful to have someone knowledgable to speak to about financial aid, courses, and scheduling.

Proabably siiting through prerequisites that can be very boring depending on the teacher. I got lucky for the first quarters but the last one was horrible in this one sociology class that i thought would be interesting.

It can be pretty hard to meet people here they are extremly shy to others who don't act or look like themselves, not hateful but very shy. The girls her are especialy shy, and most are fairly boring (they do much but study, drink, and watch TV)

The most frustrating thing was that this school is extremely reluctant to close during bad weather. It doesn't snow much in Seattle, but even with the roads covered in a solid inch of ice after an ice storm, UW refused to close and most students could not show up for class safely. I think the UW loses money from research grants for every day that it is completely closed, and that may contribute to its reluctance to do so. Still, I was pretty furious at what I saw as a choice students were forced to make about their safety.

All libraries except the Undergraduate library are closed early.