University of Maryland-College Park Top Questions

How to deal with a large class size. I had never attended a class with more than thirty students, so to show up in a 300 person lecture hall is intimidating. It took a while to understand how professors and TA's took on these massive classes and how to study for them.

Some areas on campus are pretty dark withouth much lights at night so it scares me a little, not so frustrating though.

How large it is. I am sill learning where everything is but it is new and exciting.

The most frustrating thing about UMD are the professors. They are very slow in grading papers and getting back to students.

The most frustrating thing about my school is how competitive it is. I know it helps me to work harder, but with the amount of students there is and how intelligent everyone is, it is hard to not seem like you are not smart enough. It makes it harder to get into certain majors and programs. The benefit of the competition is it makes students work harder for what they want.

One thing that is very frustrating about Maryland is that all of the academic buildings are far apart and there is only one bus that runs during the day, which makes it difficult for students to get to some classes. In addition, there is no way of scheduling midterms, so professors end up scheduling midterms during the same week, which is very stressful for students.

It can be extremely difficult to achieve an A as a final grade in a class.

The Department of Transportation on Campus and the lack of available FREE parking on campus.

The workload for classes are a little extreme and some tests/exams are impossible. I don't believe a student gets much from a class when the class average is a 50{4a082faed443b016e84c6ea63012b481c58f64867aa2dc62fff66e22ad7dff6c} but with a curve to allow students to pass.

The town around the main campus isn't quite as lively as it could be.