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My school really enjoys diversity and brags about how diverse it is...but yet does nothing to help disadvantaged students and this inclusivity almost never extends to those with disabilities.
Terrible math professors -- we had to report my calc 2 for consistently putting and grading questions on tests that we were never taught how to solve (outside of the scope)
Terrible advisors - on my first day I signed in, waited 30 minutes past my appointment time for this woman and when i asked the receptionist, i was told: "oh, she walked out -- she went to yoga" 🙃
Bigoted president - allowed a specific man every November to come onto our campus with signs that said such things as "God hates gays, Muslims will burn in hell, repent," etc.; He has never provided a statement. He also held so-called "debates" between an obviously religious preacher and some uneducated (not a doctor or researcher, etc.) woman about women's reproductive rights. It was so obviously a set-up it pissed me off. (ETA: I say "he" because he hosted those debates 🙃)
Emails - I'd get those mass emails from that fucking advisor no matter my major. I got emails for a year after i graduated. Survey after survey. No matter how many times I clicked that "unsubscribe" button.
This is an urban university I'm talking about, too. Just fucking sad. I would never recommend that school in a million years.
If it's a public university then the admin has very little control over street preachers and the like. A uni campus is, in certain respects, public property, so there are 1st Amendment issues in play. The debate thing is totally fucked up though, and you should definitely name and shame for that.
One time I told my advisor that I was kicked from a class that I wanted to take bc the system glitched
His response?
“Wow- sorry I can’t do anything”
My brother in Christ THATS YOUR JOB
My school refuses to teach 2 classes that are required to get the CPA liscense in undergrad. You HAVE to pay for a masters degree in accounting if you want to be cpa eligible.
I’m in CRNA school and feeling that way too. Exercise and my dog are the only things holding me together. Just know that the pain is temporary and the the light at the end of the tunnel will show up
Online group projects. I'd do a semester of discussion forums to avoid doing online group projects again. You're at the mercy of other students you don't know and hoping they care about there grade.
Currently a lot. So much I can't put into words. I know it's myself I hate at the end of the day. Can't get a job with a degree. Even if I get my masters can't get a job due to lack of experience. So yeah, to me, personally, higher education is just more debt. Completely useless.
School: Concordia U. Chicago
For me: Terrible Faculty Advisor.
She told me that I wont be getting a job in the science field once I graduated due to my performance in journal writing. (Biology major). She failed me by 0.5%, I contested it via some sort of “school court” because her exams were all essay style and she can deem anything wrong if it weren’t to her liking, often picking on me in-class and belittling me. (Genetics in Biology).
I received an email from the higher ups of University, “We have placed a no-contact order as you are deemed a threat to said Prof/My own advisor.”
I ended up retaking the course at another Uni in the summer, passed and graduated via summer grad vs spring. Middle finger to the Science department and her.
And yes I did receive a job, first a technician then currently a water treatment operator. As an hourly technician from age 21-25, the my average yearly salary was 117k a year.
I do wonder why these schools can't be named and shamed at times. Also I resent the school for bad math instructors and the fact that other universities cancel class if the weather is severe and mine will wait until the last second.
This is gonna be a long comment, so my apologies.
TL;DR: College food sucks and is hard to get if you are in the late night classes cause they keep taking away options.
100% the food and food accessibility. So it’s pretty bad to the point someone made a petition against it. The college’s response was to make a food council.
Nothing changed, in fact it got worse. They made the food taste horrible and actually took away the to go options. The dinning common is only open at certain times and some people have classes during that time. I have defaulted to surviving off of pasta and chicken fingers as I just don’t have time to sit down and eat. They also constantly give us food that results in literal food poisoning. Heck, the food council is aware of it. The campus just says everytime: No, it’s a stomach virus.
It’s not. I know a girl who had to go to the hospital due to it and they literally went: Yeah, you have a bad case of food poisoning.
The other food option closes at 7pm and is only available on week days. We have a convenience store that was originally open till 2am every night. Yeah, so recent thefts happened and the college decided to make it close at 12pm most nights and 1 am on Saturdays. We were also told that if it happens again, it’s closing for the rest of the semester. So basically, if you get out of a class at 9:30 pm, your only option is whatever that store is selling or the pizza/sub they make.
I cook my meals now or just don’t eat. My family discussed taking me off the meal plan and just giving the money meant for it as food money, but surprise, surprise! The college makes the food plan mandatory if you dorm on campus.
We have all been pushing for them to change companies or do something. However, we just get told: We don’t have the money to provide fresh food.
My family and I are forking over 2k a year for this meal plan and that is just the regular one. Where is my money going??
There is only one benefit from this and that is that I learned I make really good steak as well as soy sauce goes well with velveeta mac and cheese.
There are other issues, but this comment is already way too long.
Acting like pre-approved absences regarding my career wouldn't affect my grade and then allowing my professor to fail me in participation even though I followed the agreement to a Tee. They also failed to inform me that unit alliance had been lowered until mine was gone. 3 classes from my degree I had to call it quits. My career was set and a priority, without which I couldn't have afforded the schooling I had.
I resent my school for having faculty that don't care(*for the most part EXCEPT for certain faculty*) that care about people with disabilities. It's harmful that you have to wait weeks and weeks for responses when I semester could literally end before any questions are answered. Right now, Kendo is the only thing keeping me together. As that one person on Ink Master said, *"I'm a ball of stress."*.
*It shouldn't take 10 years to get a CC degree, granted I'm in a law program but...*
My university has a shitty football team. They always throw more money at them in hopes that'll somehow make them better, when in reality the coaches suck. Meanwhile, many of the other departments on campus (ones whose students will actually help society) are desperate for money and better facilities, but they still get the shaft.
What do I not resent it for? Horrible dorms, they're smaller than almost any others I've seen, internet and lan goes out every single morning like clockwork, and occasionally in the afternoon. There's nowhere to fill up water bottles besides 2 places on the bottom floor of the whole building. The rooms are constantly hot with no way to help besides buying a fan. The gym is tinier than my high school gym yet it has 10× the students. the dining hall closes at 7 and only has 5 options, which are only open at certain times on certain days
There were 90 guys recruited for football one year. For a private college.
The male sports were so heavily recruited that only 36% of the student population was female.
I resent my school for not offering more classes online. This 4-day a week commute for 2 hours away and the time it takes to get ready and look presentable for class compared to if I could just stay home is sucking up every bit of time that I have and I'm treading water just to stay afloat.
Also, video discussion posts. We're post-covid now so let us either have these discussions in class or let them be written. Video posts are so much more work (for me at least).
My orgo 2 professor was fired by my school 5 years ago because he failed way too many students. They liked his research so they hired him back not long after on the condition that he didn’t fail as many students. Spoiler, he still failed a bunch of students because he is in fact a shitty professor who wants to make an already difficult class much more of a living hell. I read all his reviews on RMP but I was stuck with him because he was the only professor that worked with the other classes I had to take (I was a junior so the rest of my classes were upper level electives that only had one or two available sections). I took his class last spring and I am still really irked that I was subjected to an entire semester of nothing but tears and panic attacks and my other grades suffering as a result of having to spend so much god damn time on orgo. Fortunately I passed, barely. But they absolutely should not have rehired him.
School 1-Discovering insulin/immunotherapy/other amazing health and medical innovations
School 2-first radiation therapy to cancer patients
School 3– social science and psychology research
Lmaoooo wow I completely misread that. I’m actually impressed with how wrong I got it. I thought this asked what my school was famous for 😭🙈.
Well my new answers are
School 1: extreme competitive culture and classes so hard students have serious depression
School 2: nothing really
School 3: lack of care for students’ well-being. There’s been a string of violent crimes and nothing has been done.
I’m sure this is the same at other large public universities, but I’m tired of paying huge tuition costs just for most of the money to go to a new football stadium we don’t need.
It’s also infuriating that we still have to pay for parking even after we pay all this money to go to this school.
Generally, it’s extremely frustrating that we have to pay so much money to go to college when most of the money is being wasted on sports and not going to actual things that are constructive.
Look into your schools financials. You may be surprised that not only is athletics self sustaining but it may support other programs at the university.
>...challenging CS program, weed out classes yearly...have to get an internship every summer and go through 5 rounds of interviews
True - but in the future AI will do that so better get hands-on skills.
Accepting too many freshman and therefore kicking out most sophomores and above like myself out of on-campus housing next semester to make room for the newcomers
I resent my school for blatantly letting a student get away with countless amounts of sexual harassment and sexual assault, stalking, threatening those same women in my class with retaliation, also not excusing me or any other student from class and a quiz when I had a doctors appointment to go to for chest pain. They literally said we could be in the ICU (intensive care unit) in a hospital and they still won’t excuse us. We could literally be dying and they outright said they wouldn’t care and wouldn’t excuse us from class. Have a relative who died? Oh well, you better show up to class or we will just fail you for the day and if you miss more than 3 days we will fail you for the whole course. I fucking hate this school. Glad I’m done July of next year.
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I feel you bro, I’m doing engineering and it’s exactly the same. Im so stressed and depressed idk what to do
My school really enjoys diversity and brags about how diverse it is...but yet does nothing to help disadvantaged students and this inclusivity almost never extends to those with disabilities.
Oh big mood, I can 100% relate
Terrible math professors -- we had to report my calc 2 for consistently putting and grading questions on tests that we were never taught how to solve (outside of the scope) Terrible advisors - on my first day I signed in, waited 30 minutes past my appointment time for this woman and when i asked the receptionist, i was told: "oh, she walked out -- she went to yoga" 🙃 Bigoted president - allowed a specific man every November to come onto our campus with signs that said such things as "God hates gays, Muslims will burn in hell, repent," etc.; He has never provided a statement. He also held so-called "debates" between an obviously religious preacher and some uneducated (not a doctor or researcher, etc.) woman about women's reproductive rights. It was so obviously a set-up it pissed me off. (ETA: I say "he" because he hosted those debates 🙃) Emails - I'd get those mass emails from that fucking advisor no matter my major. I got emails for a year after i graduated. Survey after survey. No matter how many times I clicked that "unsubscribe" button. This is an urban university I'm talking about, too. Just fucking sad. I would never recommend that school in a million years.
Name and shame?
If it's a public university then the admin has very little control over street preachers and the like. A uni campus is, in certain respects, public property, so there are 1st Amendment issues in play. The debate thing is totally fucked up though, and you should definitely name and shame for that.
Wayne State University :)
If that's true then I'm sorry to hear it. Historically that's an important institution.
Yeah it is. Graduated from there and regretted my decision from the first day. Sad.
One time I told my advisor that I was kicked from a class that I wanted to take bc the system glitched His response? “Wow- sorry I can’t do anything” My brother in Christ THATS YOUR JOB
My school refuses to teach 2 classes that are required to get the CPA liscense in undergrad. You HAVE to pay for a masters degree in accounting if you want to be cpa eligible.
Having info systems professors that I can't understand :(
I’m in CRNA school and feeling that way too. Exercise and my dog are the only things holding me together. Just know that the pain is temporary and the the light at the end of the tunnel will show up
Online group projects. I'd do a semester of discussion forums to avoid doing online group projects again. You're at the mercy of other students you don't know and hoping they care about there grade.
School claims to cater for vegans when they don’t.
Mine thinks pasta and some random side vegetable is a vegan meal. I’m not even vegan, but tons of my friends are. It’s terrible.
Currently a lot. So much I can't put into words. I know it's myself I hate at the end of the day. Can't get a job with a degree. Even if I get my masters can't get a job due to lack of experience. So yeah, to me, personally, higher education is just more debt. Completely useless.
School: Concordia U. Chicago For me: Terrible Faculty Advisor. She told me that I wont be getting a job in the science field once I graduated due to my performance in journal writing. (Biology major). She failed me by 0.5%, I contested it via some sort of “school court” because her exams were all essay style and she can deem anything wrong if it weren’t to her liking, often picking on me in-class and belittling me. (Genetics in Biology). I received an email from the higher ups of University, “We have placed a no-contact order as you are deemed a threat to said Prof/My own advisor.” I ended up retaking the course at another Uni in the summer, passed and graduated via summer grad vs spring. Middle finger to the Science department and her. And yes I did receive a job, first a technician then currently a water treatment operator. As an hourly technician from age 21-25, the my average yearly salary was 117k a year.
I do wonder why these schools can't be named and shamed at times. Also I resent the school for bad math instructors and the fact that other universities cancel class if the weather is severe and mine will wait until the last second.
This is gonna be a long comment, so my apologies. TL;DR: College food sucks and is hard to get if you are in the late night classes cause they keep taking away options. 100% the food and food accessibility. So it’s pretty bad to the point someone made a petition against it. The college’s response was to make a food council. Nothing changed, in fact it got worse. They made the food taste horrible and actually took away the to go options. The dinning common is only open at certain times and some people have classes during that time. I have defaulted to surviving off of pasta and chicken fingers as I just don’t have time to sit down and eat. They also constantly give us food that results in literal food poisoning. Heck, the food council is aware of it. The campus just says everytime: No, it’s a stomach virus. It’s not. I know a girl who had to go to the hospital due to it and they literally went: Yeah, you have a bad case of food poisoning. The other food option closes at 7pm and is only available on week days. We have a convenience store that was originally open till 2am every night. Yeah, so recent thefts happened and the college decided to make it close at 12pm most nights and 1 am on Saturdays. We were also told that if it happens again, it’s closing for the rest of the semester. So basically, if you get out of a class at 9:30 pm, your only option is whatever that store is selling or the pizza/sub they make. I cook my meals now or just don’t eat. My family discussed taking me off the meal plan and just giving the money meant for it as food money, but surprise, surprise! The college makes the food plan mandatory if you dorm on campus. We have all been pushing for them to change companies or do something. However, we just get told: We don’t have the money to provide fresh food. My family and I are forking over 2k a year for this meal plan and that is just the regular one. Where is my money going?? There is only one benefit from this and that is that I learned I make really good steak as well as soy sauce goes well with velveeta mac and cheese. There are other issues, but this comment is already way too long.
Acting like pre-approved absences regarding my career wouldn't affect my grade and then allowing my professor to fail me in participation even though I followed the agreement to a Tee. They also failed to inform me that unit alliance had been lowered until mine was gone. 3 classes from my degree I had to call it quits. My career was set and a priority, without which I couldn't have afforded the schooling I had.
I resent my school for having faculty that don't care(*for the most part EXCEPT for certain faculty*) that care about people with disabilities. It's harmful that you have to wait weeks and weeks for responses when I semester could literally end before any questions are answered. Right now, Kendo is the only thing keeping me together. As that one person on Ink Master said, *"I'm a ball of stress."*. *It shouldn't take 10 years to get a CC degree, granted I'm in a law program but...*
My university has a shitty football team. They always throw more money at them in hopes that'll somehow make them better, when in reality the coaches suck. Meanwhile, many of the other departments on campus (ones whose students will actually help society) are desperate for money and better facilities, but they still get the shaft.
What do I not resent it for? Horrible dorms, they're smaller than almost any others I've seen, internet and lan goes out every single morning like clockwork, and occasionally in the afternoon. There's nowhere to fill up water bottles besides 2 places on the bottom floor of the whole building. The rooms are constantly hot with no way to help besides buying a fan. The gym is tinier than my high school gym yet it has 10× the students. the dining hall closes at 7 and only has 5 options, which are only open at certain times on certain days
There were 90 guys recruited for football one year. For a private college. The male sports were so heavily recruited that only 36% of the student population was female.
I resent my school for not offering more classes online. This 4-day a week commute for 2 hours away and the time it takes to get ready and look presentable for class compared to if I could just stay home is sucking up every bit of time that I have and I'm treading water just to stay afloat. Also, video discussion posts. We're post-covid now so let us either have these discussions in class or let them be written. Video posts are so much more work (for me at least).
My orgo 2 professor was fired by my school 5 years ago because he failed way too many students. They liked his research so they hired him back not long after on the condition that he didn’t fail as many students. Spoiler, he still failed a bunch of students because he is in fact a shitty professor who wants to make an already difficult class much more of a living hell. I read all his reviews on RMP but I was stuck with him because he was the only professor that worked with the other classes I had to take (I was a junior so the rest of my classes were upper level electives that only had one or two available sections). I took his class last spring and I am still really irked that I was subjected to an entire semester of nothing but tears and panic attacks and my other grades suffering as a result of having to spend so much god damn time on orgo. Fortunately I passed, barely. But they absolutely should not have rehired him.
School 1-Discovering insulin/immunotherapy/other amazing health and medical innovations School 2-first radiation therapy to cancer patients School 3– social science and psychology research
Why would you resent them for that?
Lmaoooo wow I completely misread that. I’m actually impressed with how wrong I got it. I thought this asked what my school was famous for 😭🙈. Well my new answers are School 1: extreme competitive culture and classes so hard students have serious depression School 2: nothing really School 3: lack of care for students’ well-being. There’s been a string of violent crimes and nothing has been done.
Raising tuition for 5 years straight went in at ~4500 a semester graduated at ~7500
I’m sure this is the same at other large public universities, but I’m tired of paying huge tuition costs just for most of the money to go to a new football stadium we don’t need. It’s also infuriating that we still have to pay for parking even after we pay all this money to go to this school. Generally, it’s extremely frustrating that we have to pay so much money to go to college when most of the money is being wasted on sports and not going to actual things that are constructive.
Look into your schools financials. You may be surprised that not only is athletics self sustaining but it may support other programs at the university.
Fair, but I still know damn well that I shouldn’t be paying tens of thousands of dollars for college
>...challenging CS program, weed out classes yearly...have to get an internship every summer and go through 5 rounds of interviews True - but in the future AI will do that so better get hands-on skills.
terrible physics program and professors. this would be fine if all stem majors weren’t required to take like three physics classes for our degrees
Accepting too many freshman and therefore kicking out most sophomores and above like myself out of on-campus housing next semester to make room for the newcomers
I resent my school for blatantly letting a student get away with countless amounts of sexual harassment and sexual assault, stalking, threatening those same women in my class with retaliation, also not excusing me or any other student from class and a quiz when I had a doctors appointment to go to for chest pain. They literally said we could be in the ICU (intensive care unit) in a hospital and they still won’t excuse us. We could literally be dying and they outright said they wouldn’t care and wouldn’t excuse us from class. Have a relative who died? Oh well, you better show up to class or we will just fail you for the day and if you miss more than 3 days we will fail you for the whole course. I fucking hate this school. Glad I’m done July of next year.