University of Washington-Seattle Campus Top Questions

It can be hard to find friends or a community for yourself, especially is you're from a small town and aren't used to such a huge place. But the worst worst thing is that 75{4a082faed443b016e84c6ea63012b481c58f64867aa2dc62fff66e22ad7dff6c} of the prof's have difficulty using their own technology/laptops, or the classroom technology - so often the first 10-15 minutes of a class is spent waiting for tech support, or for someone in class to go up and help the teacher.

Most frustrating thing about the school is that some of the 100 level classes have hundreds of students in them, so it's difficult to receive one-on-one attention.

Unclear grading and curving in classes.

Calculus, the three classes needed to complete the seriers are the hardest three classes I have ever taken in my life. If your not good at math these classes are gonna kill you.

The lack of student willingness to make friends. I have struggled with making friends, coming from a caribbean - muslim background, its hard to find people accepting of me. Most students I run into are white or asian. I feel out of place in class, just because I am different and people aren't that sociable in class... and I have tried attending on campus events to make friends - and people tend to stick with their clicks and it's difficult to get people to be receptive. People are just too busy with class work to make new friends I guess.

That our football team didn't win a single game this past season.

The fact that so many things aren't acutally owned by the school (such as the on campus housing and even the performing arts hall). It makes it frustrating because they don't recieve funding from the state, so everything is even more expensive than it has to be.

That I can't find a close group of friends.

The most frustrating thing about the University of Washington would be that every student here was the top of their class in high school and it is hard to realize that now I am not the smartest person in my class.

If you don't make an effort to make friends, it won't happen. You have to put yourself out there, which can be hard, but if you do it you can make amazing friends.