University of Maryland-College Park Top Questions

The most fustrating thing about my school is the sheer size. I am in class with up to 250 students and at times I feel like I don't get ebough attention or help. I feel like just another id number and not an actual student. Not all teachers make me feel that way, but there are some last semester (my first semster here, I transfered) that made me feel that way. I am here to learn and some times class isn't enough; I need a little more reenforcement on the material.

The Univeristy of Maryland is a fantastic school, but if I had to name the most frustrating thing about it, I would have to say the most frustrating thing would be that there is no transporation services running during the daytime (before 5:30pm) because UMD is a very large campus.

I think UMCP professors don’t do enough to get students excited about their fields. My chemistry professor gave demonstrations and cracked jokes, but while students found class fun, they didn’t find chemistry fun. While only chemistry geeks would read the original paper describing the discovery of the nucleus, non-geeks can appreciate how radically it changed the way we view atoms. If I took that class again, I would want to hear my professor quote how Rutherford described the results: “as if you fired a 15-inch shell at a piece of tissue paper and it came back.”

The most frustrating apect of the University of Maryland, College Park is the size of the student body in relation to the size of the faculty body. Many classes have over 200 students to one main professor and numerous graduate students. This makes it challenging to establish useful, working relationships with your professors.

Sometimes large class size can be a bit frustrating.

The size, this campus is huge and starting out it can be fustrating trying to find the right building for your classes. The volume of pedestrians is at once a nightmare for traffic and the line for Panda Express in the Stamp student union is always ridiculous around lunch time.

housing and some discrimnation/preferences towards certain types of people.

Parking availability and violation penalties. If you happen arrive at UMCP late for class, do not expect to find a parking space in one of UMCP's few public parking lots. Do not even expect to find a vacant meter. Rather, expect to leave your vehicle somewhere off campus and walk for a distance to avoid an enormous parking ticket, or, if you don't want to or cannot do all walking, then simply pay a very expensive parking ticket, some of which range from $70-$95.

The most frustrating thing about University of Maryland correlates with scholarships. I am a transfer and commuter student at UMD and because of the limited amount of scholarship given to enrolled students; I am forced to work during the year. Although I think it is beneficial to work while in school, the amount of time I am forced to work makes it difficult to become fully emerged in campus life. It is frustrating not to be able to join or participate in clubs and other activities because I am unable to apply for or receive a scholarship from the University.

I think what student's will find frustrating about UMD is the cost of attendance. Student's will spend a lot of money for an education which most states provide for less. I would not attend this college if I were out of state since the tuition is outrageous.