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They ignore your problems that relate to school issues. The officers are sneaky. If you have a night class, be prepared to protect yourself from strangers. Lots of professors stand in front of the class and assume that teaching means to read from the book. If the professor is not reading to you, they will ask you to get into groups, work as a team and basically do their job. Teach yourself. I had one professor who used the class for conversations. WTF. Why not have conversations at home online with fellow students? They waste a lot of time. The financial aid office is the worst so far. I can speak on that department because they always half do the job.


It feels like you?re paying to waste time.
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FIU supplies everything you would expect from an public institution of higher learning in Miami. It has shallow people with no aspirations that only care about clubbing and house music, cholos with more muscles than brains, complete incompetence on every level of the administration, woefully inadequate parking, and a severe lack of faculty that can adequately speak English.

Out of my 4 teachers this semester only 3 can speak English to a level that I can consistently understand them. If you're looking for a intellectual atmosphere look else where. The City of Miami is a cultural wasteland. Unless you're cuban, grew up in Miami, and only listen to reggaeton and dubstep you will stick out like a sore thumb. The parking is an absolute joke. On more than one occasion I have missed class because there is literally nowhere to park.

If you're from out of town this is NOT the school for you. I know very few people at the school that are not from south florida. If you're coming to school to meet new people, this is not the school for you. I'm a very social and out going person but nearly all of my friends from FIU I was already friends with in high school. The only social life you will have at this school will come if you join one of the fraternities or sororities (there are only 4 houses so I wouldn't really call it greek life) and it is severely lacking compared to FSU, UM, UCF, UF, etc..

If you have a romantic view of education (i.e. If you're coming to school to grow as a person, meet new interesting people from different walks of life, learn life lessons and get caught up in school spirit) you should steer clear. If you are just trying to get a degree (i.e. you plan on living with your parents or you are completing a degree to further career) FIU may be adequate.

The dorms are overpriced but as far as dorms go they are much newer and more spacious than the dorms I saw at FSU and other schools. On the plus side (because this is Miami) there is an overabundance of beautiful (and easy) latin women at this school and a seeming lack of qualified men.

The school is also going through a serious budget crisis (like every other institution in Florida) because of this they have started to in act new hidden fees. So the education that was supposed to be "free" ended up costing me over $2,000 and they didn't bother to notify me of this until after I already registered.All-in-all FIU is a fine school for what it is. But it is meant for latinos that were raised in Miami, are satisfied with their high school friends, and have no intention to ever leave Miami. As for me, I want to grow and meet different people than the pop-culture obsessed lambs I knew in high school so I am transferring to a school with a much different atmosphere that is far, far away from Miami.
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This school (FIU at MMC) is underrated when it comes to difficulty. The FIU police are lazy, I had my car broken into once and I even caught someone hotwireing my motorcycle in the middle of the day at FIU. There is never any parking spots. It is a clean school but the school is in a horrible neighborhood. After this semester, I will not be returning to FIU again! Oh just today in my ECO2023 class, my instructor showed us a video of someone who graduated from FIU law and is now working at a coffee shop because she could not get highered. How demotivating is that? 7 years of school with 60 thousand in the whole and now she works at a coffee shop making 7 dollars an hour.
Campus Maintenance: A, Surrounding City: D-
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