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Date: Dec 31 1969
Major: Psychology (This Major's Salary over time)
I am a grad student and have been at institutions larger than UF but so much better run than UF. Do not waste your time and money at UF. You will get a better education and a many fewer headaches if you go somewhere else. I would advise anyone that asks to not go here. Find a school that actually cares about student success rather than how they can scrape every last dollar out of you. UF is not a student friendly institution—my undergraduate assistants agree. We exchange stories of frustration over the bureaucracy that keeps anything meaningful from happening, and the time of staff and you that you will waste because UF continues to put a band aid on its problems rather than do an overhaul of a system designed to fail. I imagine we could have a much larger faculty (and so when you pay for your education you'd actually be getting the education you are paying for as an undergrad rather than a ton of grad students teaching oversized upper and lower division courses) if UF made use of the technology available to them and put it contingencies for staff that actually helped the student so I don't have to go through 5 people who never call me back to still not have my problem solved. Or to have my registration issue solved to find it has returned 1 month later because there is apparently no way to make that override permanent? Someday perhaps UF will discover the wonder of computers and automation. That will be a magical day. Until then, so much money is wasted on redundant and problem-fixing admins that could be put more usefully into teaching and research if the system supported good behavior in administrators, made their job easy, and made errors unlikely. As it is, we have a ton of administrators to deal with all the problems that UF's system generates. What a waste. The football stadium (the real reason for UF's existence) is called the swamp, but the real swamp is UF as a school—a backwater, quaqmire that I'm surprised anyone graduates from given the poor stewardship of the school. The above questions don't address how easy it is to deal with day to day univ operations that can make your time here so amazingly frustrating and time-wasting. My answers above make UF look much better than it actually is.

I have had a major fight with UF EVERY SINGLE SEMESTER. As my undergrad and masters' schools I had one minor issue that was solved easily my entire time at those other schools. I really can't explain how horrible UF is; professors who have left UF are so much happier at their new universities. I wish my advisor had left UF and I could have gone with him to a new institution and—I would have had a much better experience. The only thing I would have missed is the good faculty (that UF is letting go to other institutions or retire without replacement).

The faculty are great and some people in administration try to go above and beyond to actually be helpful, but they are fighting a system designed to produce problems. system is so archaic (I actually had to turn in a paper application along with my digital application which was a shadow of things to come—every other school was able to send my digital application the the relevant college and dept), set up to allow for human error (and there is a lot of it), and there is nothing in place to make people do their job so they can effectively avoid being helpful in any way if they want to. The governor wants to make UF top 10—it's not faculty that's keeping them from that that (although there are way too few faculty because of budget cuts)—it's going to be that UF is so top heavy with so many redundant administrators that have a full time job fixing all the problems other administrators created. It's great job security but it's no way to run a top teaching and research institution. Go gators.

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