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 | Quite Bright | the administration is horribly incompetent. class sizes are increasing and everything is being downsized. | Surrounding City: B+, Individual Value: F | | | |
| | Dec 07 2003 | 3rd Year Male --
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| Bright | The friendliness of the faculty varies. Some will bend over backward, some claim they will but remain unaproachable. I personally make eyecontact and learn names as soon as I can, the more connections you make the friendlier the U seems. The students are busy and tend to hang around with folks they already know. The coursework in the SOM is good, except the Junior writing requirement, which is frustrating busy work at best. There is an attempt by some of the faculty to improve, but some are closeminded and pompous. As soon as you get here start creating a support system for yourself. | Education Quality: A, Campus Maintenance: F | | | |
| | Dec 05 2003 | 1st Year Female --
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| Bright | The university can be overwhelming, but I like to think of it as overwhelming in the sense that it offers so much. UMass bears the advantages of most large public institution, namely a diversity of resources, students, academic, sports, and social programs as well as relative affordability. Professors were often experts in their fields (e.g. I took a literature class with the world's leading Beowulf scholar). Some classes and discussion sections are taught by graduate assistants but they were usually very good. The five college system, which comprises UMass, Hampshire, Amherst, Smith, anf Mt. Holyoke, is unparalleled: as a UMass student you can take courses and use the libraries at any of these private colleges. The towns of Amherst and Northampton are exceptional for their sizes (12,000 and 31,000 permanent residents respectively). Wonderful restaurants, cafes, non-profit organizations, international music acts, festivals, and so forth abound. Join the Honors Program, live in a quiet dorm like Orchard Hill, move off campus after two years into one of the many interesting New England communities. Do your Junior Year abroad. Approach your faculty, ask to do independent studies for credit under their expertise. I recommend UMass highly, despite the shortcomings that have been referred to thus far. You have to seek out the vast opportunities here, and I can assure once you start looking they won't be hard to find. | Surrounding City: A, Individual Value: D | | | |
| | Nov 28 2003 | 4th Year Male --
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