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:
http://www.sptimes.com/2006/07/28/State/UCF_chief_gets_top_pa.shtml
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.
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