The University of New Mexico

Date: Mar 08 2010
Major: Education (This Major's Salary over time)
If you're from a Texas school, UNM will be super easy and you won't learn anything. Take this into consideration, especially students who were awarded UNM's full scholarship for being a National Hispanic Merit Scholar. Supposedly New Mexico's public school system isn't as good as Texas's and their University reflects that.

Some students here are very clique-ish and if you are from Texas, be prepared to here a lot of "Oh, I hate Texans." There's no reason for this, or at least no one's told me, but apparently New Mexicans have a feud with Texans that Texans don't know about? It's confusing and don't take it personally.

If you smoke weed, you will fit in perfectly! Just about everyone smokes weed and it's not unusual to see people smoking on campus. Not many students do hard drugs and drinking's about normal.

The food in the cafeteria is terrible (in 2009 the cafeteria had 15 Health Code violations!) They've been trying to make it better, but if you have a weak stomach, it's not worth it.

The dorms are okay, they are by no means nice but they will do. Stay out of Hokona though, they had a fire in their laundry room in Fall 2009 and you can hear everything in one hall through the vents. The apartments have paper thin walls. Supposedly the sinks in Coronado sometimes flood rooms. You're best bet would be Laguna/De Vargas, Santa Ana, Alvarado, or Santa Clara.

Advisement and Financial Aid are not helpful at all. Be prepared to NOT listen to your advisers and just ask for the list of requirements for your major. It's easier and will save you wasted credits. Also, if you do go to advisement, stay away from a tall thin man at University Advisement. He's not only messed me up, but seven of my friends. Seven!

Again, classes are very easy. If you have a pulse, you'll get into UNM and if you're from New Mexico and have a pulse, you'll get in because of the lottery scholarship. It's a scholarship for tuition that pretty much every kid who graduates from a New Mexico school gets. So yes, everyone's here for free and no, they didn't have to really work for it. Like, if you have half a brain you'll make an A. It's all busy work, too. There's nothing challenging or innovative. UNM has confused busy work with challenging work.

If I had the chance, I'd have just taken out student loans and gone to my community college in Texas.