University of Nebraska-Lincoln Top Questions

My classmates are a mixed bag- some (the majority are somewhere in the middle, but closer to this end of things) are really smart and are willing to do the work required to get good grades, and set goals to get jobs or into graduate school after college, while others are just there for partying and don't really care about school or their grades, beyond not being on probation.

My classmates at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln are very kind and easy to talk to.

There is a huge divide between students here. A majority of students are white, from the midwest, or in-state, however there is also a very large international population due to the connection with a Chinese University. However, there is very little interaction between these two. There have been racial issues in the past. Though it is a university, which you would hope to be open minded, taking a walk through the union you will hear racial slurs or epithets and demeaning language to the lgbt community. This university caters to athletic jock type students.

They were very disconnected with the college life. I was there to learn, and they were there to party.

I have attended some religious organizations such as the Navigators and I'm also involved in the group OASIS which also encourages exploring different cultures. I think that students who aren't willing to try new things or get out of their comfort zone would have a hard time fitting in here. Most students wear a t-shirt and jeans to class. I think that there is interaction between different students during classes. One of the tables probably has a lone person sitting there on his or her phone the second has a bunch of loud people the third has a couple and the fourth has 3 people sitting quietly. Most students are from Nebraska although there are a majority spanning from neighboring states to countries on the other side of the world. I think that upper middle class is the most common financial background. I have seen a combination of political backgrounds it seems like most people are pretty close to the center. Students don't normally talk about how much they earn in a day.

Some are active on campus....some aren't. You can't really just generalize that especially here since there are so many people. And we are diverse as I said before.

Active learners

I am not going to lie, UNL is a very WASP-y (White Anglo-Saxon Protestant) school. Because some 78{4a082faed443b016e84c6ea63012b481c58f64867aa2dc62fff66e22ad7dff6c} of the students at UNL come from Nebraska, it can sometimes be pretty difficult to see the diversity on campus but with recent additions and developments on campus like the new Jackie-Gaughan Multicultural Center, I feel like diversity is becoming more and more prevalent. Politically speaking, Lincoln itself is a somewhat Liberal blip on an otherwise Conservative map and UNL reflects that. I think that the UNL campus is home to students, faculty, and staff who lean left, right, and every which way in between.

The students at UNL are incredibly diverse. There are numerous churches on campus as well as religious organizations to help you live out your holy life as you choose. Additionally, there are many organizations to cater to any group. We have the largest Multicultural center around which offers many opportunities on campus. The dining halls are filled with many types of people and opportunities to mingle with others.

Just by walking around campus you can see that students throughout campus are all individually different. You will see all types of cultural involvement occurring on campus inviting all that are interested. Even in my classes I have had the LGBT panel come and speak to one of my classes which helped me have a better understanding of what that involved. The Greek system is a great way to meet people that you share a type of interest in and you can become very close with the sorority of fraternity you join. I can honestly say no one student would feel out of place in any of my classes because no one student is alike. This is what I like so much about UNL and it's class environment because of the diversity. Students dress how they feel would fit them best whether that be if they want to dress up for class or just simply dress down, it's whatever the student feels most comfortable in. In my classes I have worked with students in groups and made connections with them because of my major. While working with students in my classes I have met people from Texas, South Dakota, California, small towns throughout Nebraska and even places as far as China.