Jazmin
It is a huge school, so deciding to join a sorority or extracurricular activity will be daunting!
Jennifer
There is a lot of walking because the campus is so big. But after a while you get used to it and it's good exercise.
Bri
Walking uphill. I have absolutely no complaints about my university. Some areas could be a little more well-lit and there should be more resources for these uphill walks. Other than that, no complaints about academics. There are many resources for tutoring.
Samantha
The frustrating thing about Maryland is how divided it is. I like that it essentially has many communities within it in the form of smaller schools and departments, but there isn't much unity between the different sorts of people that go here. I feel largely alienated from the students who focus on sports and Greek life, for instance, because we are not encouraged to engage with one another.
Samuel
One reoccuring problem is the dining points system. Students exchange money for points in a system that is required for all students that wish to live in a dorm on campus. These points have more value then the dollar so students get less points than how much money they put in. This would make sense if the cost of food, pointwise, was less then the normal cost of food in U.S. currency. Unfortunately, the cost of food at the University of Maryland is rather expensive, leaving many students out of points well before the end of the school year.
Jaclyn
Have to have a fake id to have a social life, which is all bars. or enjoy gross frat parties. another frustrating thing is that bus service only run at night but i still dont want to walk across campus during the day.
Jing
Too many students in a class. Not a good environment for studying.
Kerianne
They promise a small student teacher ratio with a plethora of chances for hands on research internships or externships but they don't deliver. As a matter of fact they will tell you that the school is to big for them to do things like that for any student that isn't a graduate student. EVEN THOUGH, that's why most of us came to the school. Then they give internships to students outside of the major!
Kiara
The most frustrating thing about my school is the process of selecting courses. Some students are able to sign up early for classes depending on their specific academic honors or certain programs that they are memebers of. I feel that this process hinders my equal opportunity in choosing courses. It frustrates me that I may have to choose an unfavorable time of day to attend a class and that the only available time for a course may conflict with another scheduled course. Some of my major credit classes may be full, causing me to wait to take them next semester.
Tereance
Nothing really is frustrating, except when I have to write essay 10+ pages double spaced.