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The only frustrating part about my school is the financial aspect of it. I am an out of state student and sometimes I feel as though I am overpaying. I have no complaints about the school other than money.

How it wastes money, on classes like peace studies and womens studies and being enviornmentally friendly when it is not cost effective, cuts to funding of athletics that bring students to the school, and the universities very liberal policies.

it has one of the most expensive instate tuition rates in the U.S.

The parking situation and some rediculous classes.

Some professors, and the weather

The fact that UMaine does absolutely nothing for my financial situation isi absolutely frustrating to me. I have so much trouble coming up with money for each semester bill and they never seem to care. The financial aid staff are extremely unhelpful and act as though they are unconcerned with students' individual situations - they just dismiss issues by saying that so many others are going through the same thing. The staff tends to give students the run-around, and no matter how many times you make the effort to go in, they give you the same unhelpful answers.

The administration, over all they are good people in student affairs but some of the policies and proceedures can be a bit redundent and sometimes out of touch.

The most frustrating thing about my school is that when I transferred there, they poorly transferred my credits which made it very difficult for me to enroll into the correct classes. Seeking out advisors to help me didn't really work, and the process was not seemless at all, I was really given the 'run-around' to try to enroll in the classes I need. Although I am sure this is not a popular scenario it is certainly the one things that frustrates me the most.

The most frustrating thing is dealing with financial aid and loans. Overall money problems are the hardest for me.

The school is way up in Maine. There is not much to do in the surrounding areas. It gets real cold up here and the winters are long.