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Sort By: [Date] [Major] [Rating] Art & Design Department  Major Salary, Salary Trend, Satisfaction, Unemployment Quite Bright Wow after nearly two years of school I can honestly say that I have never had such a culture shock. There are just certain things that one must accept when matriculating into public school. The impersonality of 500 kid classes, multiple choice test after multiple choice test, and a certain smell laziness thats contaminates everything. I major in both Art and Creative writing (I'm screwed haha) with a minor in music. On one hand, my majors and minor have allowed me to be creative and express myself without boundaries. Yet, I feel lost now that I look back on the current events going on my life. Making friends here is hard. I know it sounds juvenile, but I have yet to really form lasting relationships with people. Partially because on ten percent of the school lives on campus, but I believe it has to more so with the culture. Everyone here is just so cliquey that it just makes life more difficult. I hate the core with a passion. It comprises 42 credits of your education which is basically a year and a half of college. It would not be so bad if the courses weren't high school 2.0 with some mofo "lecturer" ( what the hell does that even mean?)who doesn't even have a PHD. Then after the clusterfuck that is the core, one has to go about choosing a major. The largest college is COlFA but the business school is catching up quick (must be the economy). Classes are painfully easy. Too easy to be called college courses. Not to mention the fact that most students start off in remedial math and writing! This is an atrocity! How the hell can America survive if its inhabitants cannot even use basic algebra and argumentative writing!? Housing is too good to be true. We are getting new off campus houses. Literally two story houses that foster even more commuter status student life. I am at a crossroads with this school. Either way, I am graduating from here. I just feel let down and am considering not going to grad school at all. If you have to go here and have half a brain please take as many upper division, honors, independent study classes as possible! Education Quality: A-, Individual Value: F Have a Question? Your Response/Question:     To be informed when someone replies to your comment. (private)  More →  Nov 22 2009 2nd Year Male -- Class 2012    Forward  Blog it! Blog about this comment from your webpage or Blog, or MySpace account: Just copy and paste! <script src='http://www.studentsreview.com/active/shared/sr_comment.js?sckey=62505&uid=3433'></script> <a href='http://www.studentsreview.com' style='font-size:8pt;'>Data Source: StudentsReview!</a> Rate this comment: Useless (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) Helpful       Save   Electrical Engineering  Major Salary, Salary Trend, Satisfaction, Unemployment Bright This University is all about show off and MONEY, they improve their system by looking for ways how to get more money out of students, no printing service available every where, I mean no words to describe how much this university sucks, parking sucks, TA SUCKS, PROFESSORS SUCKS, MOST OF THEM DON'T SPEAK ENGLISH WHAT ELSE DO YOU WANT TO KNOW ABOUT IT Have a Question? Your Response/Question:     To be informed when someone replies to your comment. (private)  More →  Oct 08 2009 1st Year Male -- Class 2012    Forward  Blog it! Blog about this comment from your webpage or Blog, or MySpace account: Just copy and paste! <script src='http://www.studentsreview.com/active/shared/sr_comment.js?sckey=61313&uid=3433'></script> <a href='http://www.studentsreview.com' style='font-size:8pt;'>Data Source: StudentsReview!</a> Rate this comment: Useless (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) Helpful       Save   Music - Composition/Theory  Major Salary, Salary Trend, Satisfaction, Unemployment Quite Bright I don't know how to feel about UTSA sometimes because as a whole the school is just mediocre. I'll try to be as detailed as possible though to givve an idea of how I came to this conclusion. Good 1. The faculty in my department is wonderful. The music department faculty make staying at least somewhat feasible. They are very kind, approachable, and willing to help to students with just about anything. There are some bad seeds here and there but that's at any school. 2. The faculty outside my department may not be as overwhelming amazing but they try. I have taken many electives because I am a B.A. in music and not a B.M. so from what i have observed you should use ratemyprofessor.com like the holy bible. Seriously it has saved me many times from really crappy teachers. 3. The campus is all in one area. One the things i hated about UT Austin was its split campus. At UTSA everything nice and cozy. 4. It is very easy to succeed here if youput your mind to it. I mean really easy. Most of the student body is lazy and apathetic. Very few students actually study and go to class. This apathy makes it easy for more motivated students to be big fish on campus. 5. The housing is not nearly as bad as it seems. Many UTSA students complain about their housing but unless they live at chisolm, the only dorms, they really have no idea what the college experience means. That's a good thing. I hate dorms so i applied for the Oaks, on campus apartments, and although they suck compared to real apartments at least they aren't dorms. 6. The students here are nice for the most part. There is a a decent amount of minorities but it is still pretty small. It isn't hard to make friends in class. Bad 1. The weather here sucks. In the morning it's cold so one would think to wear a coat... for an hour. As soon as ten o clock hits the weather rises like 20 degrees and it is hot until after dark. The weather changes here way too much between the extremes. 2. The insides of the buildings need maintenance quite badly. Seriously they smell musty and the bathrooms have maintenance issues as well. The classrooms are cramped in some departments and too open in others which make for uneven classroom assignments. Every building on campus has classrooms because there just aren't enough buildings to facilitate new rooms 3. The students here are lazy as hell. I hate it most in my department cuase i spend so much time here. No one sounds like they practice at all. I have never heard of anyone going to a good grad school and I'm not shocked at all about it. Our department is filled music education majors mostly so if you are interested in performance look elsewhere. The faculty tries hard but i don't anyone really understands that practicing is important in music. 4. It's not just music ,though. It's in all departments. I hate that no one cares because it becomes a virus for everyone on campus. No one goes to events but whenever i say the school stinks all people can do is say that the future will get better. I doubt that if no one does anything to impact change on the school. 5. It is way to hard to makes friends here. The school is a commuter school so making friends for on campus kids is diffiult ebough as is. Most people hook up wiht high school friends thoguh and never move out of their bubble. And the university is not helping with this matter. I mean they try but not really. There are some events on campus but due to the high percentage of off campus commuters no one goes. Also there are way too many CAP people. The CAP program needs to be desttroyed because it is ruining all of the other UT schools. 6. I feel underprepared academically for grad school. I mean the faculty contains great teachers but i can tell that because of the mediocre student body that they make their curriculums more streamlined for the less motivated students. In conclusion...if you aren't interested in art,music, or engineering and science then do not come here. The Liberal arts here suck and they always lose many of their upper division classes due to missing faculty or classroom space. The only reason I am staying is because of the Honors college and the music department. Otherwise i would have left long ago. Education Quality: A+, Individual Value: F Have a Question? 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