The University of Texas at El Paso Top Questions

The one thing I wish someone told me about freshman year is I could work while I was under eighteen. If I was told this I would've began collecting money for college a long time ago thus having no issues with paying for college.

Since UTEP is a communter school, it is very hard to meet people which is what I wish I would have known before attendance. If you have close friends at UTEP, chances are you either have known them from high school or you are involved in some sort of extracurricular activity and met them that way. Through out my whole time at UTEP, it was very hard for me to meet people on my own.

I wish I had known the amount of studying it was going to take to pass classes. High school was very easy for me and studying was not necessary in most cases. In college I have had to learn how to study and make time to do it.

To apply early. I applied at an extremely late date and was accepted approximately two days before the final Freshman Orientation.

I wish I had known just how similar my situation would be when dealing with professors and students who are anti-Semitic.

I wish I would had known exactly what I wanted to study for before I came into this school. I spent half my four years trying to figure out what i wanted to finally go into and had taken several classes that only prolonged by initial decision of my career. Other than that this school has helped me rediscover my potential in many ways. And I now know what i want to spend my entire life doing.

Something that was very confusing for me that I wish it had been explained to me before was how degrees work. When entering college it was quite hard choosing a degree. There was a lot of pressure from the advisors and very little explanation. They assumed I comprehended the system and what a degree entitled. After a lot of stuggle an advisor finally sat and explained to me what a degree was and my career choises suddenly became clear and simple. I wished it had been explained by my highschool conselors instead.

I wish I would have known more about the clubs and acitivities of the university.

I wish I knew how classes would be. So I should have done more research about UTEP. It was important for me to know also about GPA and the costs. It was hard for me since I am the first from my family to go to a university.

I wish I had known what help was available to me. I didn't utilize campus resources as well as I could've. I was shy and afraid to approach other students, and I've realized it's a lot easier to know people in class and on campus.