The University of Central Florida

Date: Sep 24 2009
Major: Engineering Department (This Major's Salary over time)
I spent 7 years as an undergrad, made it out with an Env Engineering degree and 3.5 years later am in my 1st year as an EnvE grad student.

For most of my undergraduate years the computer resources available increased, however now they seem to be cutting back, and the library hours are about the same as they always were, reasonable but not 24 hours.

Since I started in 1998 parking as gotten worse, that is, it went from crappy to really really really crappy. It'll also cost you $84 a year to park legally, however if you fight dirty and get in and out fast you can spend less per year parking illicitly. The campus police have nothing much to do, (on-campus crime is pretty low) the downside of which is the campus police will harass you for no real reason. I was pulled over once for stopping no more than 5 feet over the stop bar once and earlier ambushed (they literally charged me from behind, I thought they were going to tackle me) on foot by two officers for walking around campus at 11pm. Apparently they don't have solitare on their squad car computers.

Professors range from great teachers to sadistic jerks who get off on driving you insane, no one in power really cares how good they do as instructors. I have been subject to several errors by an apparently overloaded or just plain retarded bureaucracy, they will bounce you back and forth from office to office and have a hard time answering all but the most simple questions. The commercial establishments on campus will all rip you off compared to places you can find just across the street off campus.

Lastly as a UCF student you will be subjected to a barrage of mindless university propaganda, not to mention the questionable allocation of university money. We can have a massive new stadium and endless sports facilities but not a 24 hour library or sufficient parking spaces? Oh hey while I'm at it the sitting president, John Hitt, makes total of just over $900k a year total compensation as a reward for the mindless growth he has overseen according to the St. Pete Times:

Someone apparently thinks he is Jesus or something, most UCF graduates would kill their entire family for that kind of money.

The real UCF mascot is a cancerous cell. Ever wonder why the mascot knight guy is 100% concealed in armor? (Golden Knight, sounds like a condom brand) Because underneath he's a giant festering mass of tumors.