University of Florida Top Questions

The worst thing about my school is probably the large class size for beginning courses. I was enrolled in a calculus one course with over 500 students enrolled. The University of Florida does try and combat this by having break out sessions with roughly 20 students once a week with a hired graduate student to answer questions and go over what was talked about in class that week.

Perhaps the worst part of my school was the academic advising team for my major. Since Biology/Chemistry is such a popular major, the academic advising in this department is responsible for a large array of students, which seemed to have caused them to be a bit more indifferent than I would've liked. The inability to accurately advise me on my academic situation, and the deliverance of incorrect information, caused me a lot of undue stress and headache when trying to complete the requirements for my major.

The worst thing about the school is that students aren't given much personal attention which is very necessary for them to succeed. Students must take their own initiative in a crowd of thousands of students.

The thing that I consider the worst at the University of Florida is the segregation of campus activities among the different ethnic communities. This is so because communities such as the black community and white community do exist, and instead of coming as one to help build the university into a mcuh larger one, it causes conflicting issues with power and racism.

Maybe the worst thing for me was adjusting to assembly classes where there aren't thirty but about a hundred students taking the same class

The counselors and setting up advising appointments is always difficult.

I wish that it was a more of a 'walkable' city. I had a car for almost every semester, so it wasn't a problem to get anything, but one Summer I didn't have the car and it definetly was more of a hassle to get things like groceries.

It is very large, so sometimes it is difficult to receive tailored assistance from professors, advisors, etc.

The worst thing is probably the size of the university. At times, it is difficult to register for classes because all the spots fill up very quickly. Nevertheless, the university can be as big or as small as you want it to be.

The atmosphere is a little to 'partyish' and students who are weak in the area of study can easily find themselves on probation because they have gotten 'caught' up in the atmosphere of sorority/fraternity life.