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The University of Maine is the best school that I have visited over my years of living in the United States. I have visited schools like Boston College, University of New Hampshire, Husson, St. Josephs, etc. The best thing about UMaine is the community feeling you get on campus. Everything is within a 10-15 minute walk and it makes life very accessible. Therefore, I would say UMaine is the perfect size. The best thing about UMaine is our hockey team - weekends are always spent by students cheering on our Black Bears celebrating in victory or... celebrating in loss anyway. For me, most of my time is spent on campus playing intramural and club sports or keeping up with homework. There is a ton of school pride in our hockey program. When the team is on the road, we often take fan buses or people drive up to opposing team's arenas to show our pride. I will never forget the trip to Boston College when our hockey chants were louder than the Boston College's home team chants. The only real student complaint is that there is not enough to do here in the cold weather of Orono, Maine. But, among a ton of good friends, there are always opportunities for good times.

My overall opinion of the University of Maine is that it is a school that makes you feel like your home. The classroom sizes tend to be small and the professors all take a interest in making sure you are passing. If you come from a small town this school will be a great fit for you.

The campus at the University of Maine, Orono is so beautiful. It has been around for years and years so you will see some older buildings as well as newer buildings. It is a big campus with 10,000 students but eventually it doesn't feel so big and overwhelming. The professors are really nice, and very knowledgable. They are easy to talk to and approach for questions. There is limited parking at times so that can be frusterating. That is one of the few things I would change. Orono is definantly a College town, it is so small and the biggest attraction is definantly the University, also it is located on an Island. I like that it's a small town, with a big school.

I love UMaine, but then again I'm biased =]. As a freshman, you spend most of your time over on the Hilltop, where they put most of the freshman and where they help you adjust to campus living. But I'm going to tell you a secret, GO TO YORK TO EAT. York Dining Hall, located at the southern end of campus is where it's at. Every Wednesday, there's Buffalo Chicken wrap night and out of the three dining halls on campus, York has the most options, best atmosphere, and of course best food! I was lucky that my freshman year I lived on the south end of campus, so I was introduced to York's glory early, but tell your friends, tell your classmates, and most importantly tell your roommate, and get your butt over to York to eat! Other than York dining, the Hilltop part of campus does have its benefits. The amazing Recreation Center, finished in the 2000s, complete with incredible workout facility and POOL, is a great place to work out and hang out. That part of campus is also where the sporting events take place. Football is generally a good turnout and the games are fun, but men's ice hockey is an incredible experience. The student section is above the opposing goalie and the same chants have been used for the past five decades. You can tell the freshman right away because they don't know the chants, but they learn quickly! If you think you want to be a Black Bear, go to a UMaine men's hockey game, sneak into the student section, and there is no way you won't be able to feel the pride and excitement about being a BLACK BEAR (and kicking ass).

There is always something to do. Campus Activities and Student Engagement and other groups on campus always have something planned for basically every night of the week and there's a lot of free things to attend during the weekends. For example, on Wednesday nights in the Collins Center for the Arts, there is free movie played on a the big screen that hasn't been released on DVD yet. As well as many of the singing groups on campus perform and the concert is free. There is always something to do. I don't think I'd change anything about UMaine. I think it is a perfect size. Though it may be intimidating to some students, the community is still very strong. I cannot walk across campus without running into at least one person that I know and recognize by name. The people are friendly. There is also a lot of school pride. UMaine's campus is separate from the surrounding towns of Orono and Old Town. I think once a black bear, always a black bear.

After my first year, I can say I fell in love with my choice of college. The friendly atmosphere, helpful and resourceful academic administration, available extra-curricular activities, superb engineering program and student entertainment on this campus all for in state tuition is really what caught my attention. In comparison to other Universities and schools I got into, UMaine was number 3, now it is obviously my top and now current school. We are definitely a college town as well as local towns around because we are a pretty good size campus for the State of Maine and I love it. I like seeing a busy town with students always out and about doing something in town or on campus every day or night of the week. I have been up this way during the summer and in no way is this area the same! The biggest thing about this University that the entire student body really likes is the athletics. We are a very big division 1 school in New England. Hockey, Basketball, Baseball and a few other sports are always constantly talked about for National rankings and tournament possibilities. Students represent themselves well by attending these events all the time and showing their Blue and White Pride year round and I think that that is what UMaine is all about...Black Bear Pride and we have plenty of it!

The univeristy of Maine is the most expensive public school in the state, and I was accepted into this nursing program, which is ultimately why I came to school here. IF your wallet can overcome that, or you can apply to every scholarship on earth...then you may be able to afford going here on your own with out help from your parents. This NEEDS to change. UMaine is a great size, I love the population of knowing people you walk by, but not knowing everyone. Most of my time on Campus, which as a senior nursing student is 1 day a week (the other 32+ hours are in clinicals every week) is spent in Dunn Hall. In my Freshmen / Sophomore years my fiance and I would attend the Friday comedy nights, Wednesday movies in DPC, go to the gym--work out, swim, hottub, sauna!). The current change in UMaine's community is the smoking ban, and people who smoke don't follow it, and it's not enforced.

The University of Maine has some really great ideals: Initiative, Engineering Innovation, Preservation, and Sports Legacy. However, as a 25-year-old B.A. Music student, I find the whole experience lacking. The music scene just doesn't exist, and there is little room for someone with new ideas. And I think that speaks to the University as a whole: No room for anything different. This could all be clouded by my 6 years in Boston prior to finishing at the University of Maine, but I'm also a Maine Boy at heart coming from Downeast (Eastport pride!). Maine is for the individual who wants to stay in the norm and stick to the tried and true. Also, the population is as white as the driven snow. I don't find this all that wonderful.

Its a great sized school...not too big, not too small. Its also a really good location; you have bangor (bigger city) but its still pretty rural. I think its extremely hard to move here as an out-of-state student. I would highly suggest that if you want to go here that you need to spend a weekend out here and not stick just to the program that they school plans for you...hit up a fraternity or go to a party. We're a HUGE party school.

The University of Maine is in a great location. Many people think that if a college is not in a major urban center that it is dull; that is not the truth. Here we have Bangor, with a metropolitan population of some 135,000 and a city proper population of just over 35,000, that offers more than enough in the way of shopping and other urban activities. We also have Acadia National Park close by and loads of other destinations for the outdoor enthusiast. We have the best of both worlds. On campus there is a lot to do as well. We have a sizable Greek community (Fraternities and Sororities, over 180 campus clubs, a pub on campus, the list goes on! The students here have tons of school pride. We have clubs dedicated to U-Maine pride like the Maine-iac. We have a campus service day called Maine Day, which is dedicated to campus improvement. We take pride in our campus.