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UVM is a place where I feel comfortable, I love it here my friends have become my family. The best thing? Im not really sure, perhaps the lax attitude of students or the acceptance of all people. One thing i would change would be the lack of diversity on campus. Coming from an incredibly "racially" diverse home I find it to be incredibly white. When people hear that I go to UVM they smile and say something like "duh of course you go there, you're an environmental studies major and nothing excites you more then climbing things." I spend most of my time in the dorms when its snowing and when its not outside on the green or the mountains. UVM is in Burlington Vermont, this means it is located in a busy area near the airport, bus station, train station, and church street (shops restaurants and bars) but within that small city we are surrounded by beautiful mountains and have a gorgeous lake and beach, its the best of everything I guess you could say. As much as i love the campus there is one large monstrosity that we call the Davis center which is our 60 million dollar student center and it happens to unsurprisingly be the largest building in Vermont. Personally I don't care much for it, but I do have to say it is convenient knowing that anything you could need is located in the Davis center. School pride? Yeah it exists, theres enough of it to excite anyone, but not too much that theres jerk jocks shotgunning beers outside the hockey rink. Overall UVM has a lot to offer, sometimes its frustrating but usually its not, I love it here.

Some may consider UVM to be considered either too big or too small for their liking. UVM, once you attend, will eventually show you that it's both. UVM is so big, that all students can experience the college life they've always wanted, but it is small in a sense as well due to it's tight community. Basically walking to class will allow you to bump into so many friends that you would not even notice the size of the school after the first month. People are always wondering why UVM, but it definitely is a great experience and a wonderful surrounding. Being able to be so connected to the community, while enjoying the comfort of my room in my residential hall, makes the college experience so much more fulfilling.

UVM has a lot of school pride, especially with athletics. There is a lot of unity among classes. UVM was formerly known as a party school, however now its making the transition to a true "Public Ivy." The campus is beautiful, and it will only get better when the construction is finished. The worst thing about UVM is the dry campus and the goddam hippies, they're always protesting something, they really need to get jobs. You know what they say about hippies, they wanna save the world but all they do is smoke pot and play frisbee.

Uvm has the best of both worlds. The mountains are pretty close and it's amazingly easy to get there whether you take the bus or get a ride. So many kids go to the mountains every weekend to ski and board. The lake is within walking distance. It's a great place to be when the weather is cooperating (which is unusual). Last weekend I went snowboarding during the day and hung out down by the lake that night. Burlington is a pretty good college town. It has alot of great restraunts and coffee shops and alot of street performers. There isnt really a night life down there though. I have yet to go to any bar or even hear of one. The restruants are really good but kind of expensive for college students. There is a good amount of school pride. Our sports teams arn't behind it though. The most watched sport is hockey but that isn't even too big. The only games I've gone to see are the club team games where my friends play. The most frequent complaint i hear is about the weather. It gets pretty cold up here and the winter starts early and ends late. The campus is beautiful in the snow but it's gets old pretty fast. Most students tend to stay indoors for the long winter unless they are out at a mountain. Another complain I hear alot is about the change in pace. I live half an hour out of NYC. It was a huge shock coming to the much slower paced Burlington. I don't think i'll ever get used to it.

UVM is a school with fairly good connotations. UVM knows how to spend money and spend it fast on useless things. You pay top dollar for a mid-level school and is worth only about half of what is paid. Lots of Pot, Lots of alcohol, good amount of coke, and plenty of everything else.

It is a very nice sized school, comprised almost exclusivley of middle to upper middle class white people. Burlington is a very clean, safe, and expensive town inhabited by people from other parts of the east coast. The landscape is breath taking. There is very little school pride.

I think UVM is a great school, if you'd like to go to grad school afterwards. Or if you are looking for a conventional major. I personally am transferring (hopefully) because UVM doesn't offer me a single major that I'm acutally interested in. I applied because of the GAP program, which isn't a bad program. I thought I could make it work but i am just bored out of my mind. I am an english major because its the easiest thing for me to do. Also, the other main problem I have going here is a lot of the students. They are walking proof that tests don't always reflect intelligence. I bet if you pick anywhere, any day, any time to over hear a conversation it goes something like this "oh my god, i was soo wasted last night. I was so drunk I fell of the toilet. Hahaha, and we had to hold your hair back, why did you drink that anyway?" almost every day this is all I hear when I'm walking to class or riding the bus. That and inane psychobabble. The students are always protesting something, but not in a way that would actually help. I would like to see one camp out on the green last past October. oh no its too cold, livable wages aren't as important as me drinking in my nice warm room.

UVM culture (though it has watered down), the music, socially responsible to an extent. I'd change how students act upon their daily views, I just feel like some students limit themselves from acting. Where's the action? Decent size, but the freshman class is insanely large. You like trees? All around, don't like limits or boundaries. When it's nice out and there's no time to head off-campus on a beautiful day any green or the amphitheater. Burlington has a lot of depth and community, church street is nice and we're surround by nature's playground. Fogel, what have you done? Theft issues, it sucks. UVM is about trusting your surroundings. Enough. Meal plans suck, dry campus. 420 love(the whole weekend, central green, north beach, great weather) and Ills (one experience, yeah right.) Shake down by RAs and Johnny Law.

After transferring from a small college, the best thing is definately the amount of stuff there is to do. There is always something going on. The first thing I'd change would be to encourage a more balanced political spectrum, a student body that didn't always try to be shockingly liberal. It gets old. Most people are impressed when I tell them I'm at UVM. I spend a lot of my time at my fraternity house or visiting friends in their dorms. I hardly spend any time at the Davis Center. Burlington is an awesome college town. I really hate the administration. They don't really view students as people. The biggest recent controversy was when the student government almost banned the Red Cross from campus, because they don't accept blood from men who have had sex with other men. There is school pride, but not nearly as much as some of the really big universities have. One of the most frequent complaints is about the cold and snow, once winter sets in. I don't really think it's much of a problem.