Surely UT Austin can do better than this??? (Anderson: loan, movies)
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Tell me about it...I have to sign up 3 weeks in advance just to see an academic advisor! At least my advisors actually know what they're talking about, though.
The financial aid people are even more inept. Apparently my scholarships all sent my money in to UT, but because I didn't fill out a form telling UT I got the scholarships which they already had with my name on them, they didn't disburse the money. UT also neglected to tell me I needed to fill out the form, and it wasn't on the website either. It's a joke.
But what do you expect from a public university serving 50,000. At least I'm getting the best value education in the state at $8k tuition.
Color me jealous. My advisors were very, very worthless. It usually took me forever and a day to get an appointment also, but what choice did one have if an advising bar were placed you had to get it remove in order to register. I recall that my advisors pretty much just asked me, "Well, have you looked at the course catalog? Are you taking courses to fill your requirements? Any trouble getting registered?" And if I said yes, I'm having difficulty, they usually couldn't help me. Or they'd tell me just to refer to my degree plan requirements in the General Information catalog and keep doing what I was doing.
I doubt that. But then again it depends on what program you are in. The McCombs School of Business and a few other programs are supposed to be top notch but other than that the students are skating on very thin ice when it comes to quality and professionalism.
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But what do you expect from a public university serving 50,000. At least I'm getting the best value education in the state at $8k tuition.[/QUOTE]
LOL Lets please spell adviser correctly. The adviser I had was also worthless and looked like a slob that had a serious drinking problem. Despicable I tell you, despicable.
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Color me jealous. My advisors were very, very worthless. It usually took me forever and a day to get an appointment also, but what choice did one have if an advising bar were placed you had to get it remove in order to register. I recall that my advisors pretty much just asked me, "Well, have you looked at the course catalog? Are you taking courses to fill your requirements? Any trouble getting registered?" And if I said yes, I'm having difficulty, they usually couldn't help me. Or they'd tell me just to refer to my degree plan requirements in the General Information catalog and keep doing what I was doing.
LOL Lets please spell adviser correctly. The adviser I had was also worthless and looked like a slob that had a serious drinking problem. Despicable I tell you, despicable.
LOL--NOT. . . . please know that adviser and advisor are both correct in English usage. See where it says "also advisor." Look before you leap . . . think before you . . . "speak."
Color me jealous. My advisors were very, very worthless.
What school were you in?
It's not often that your academic advisor is someone you've had as a professor in multiple classes, and who has followed your academic track nearly every semester, and who is one of the top researchers in their field. But that's what I got during my 4.5 years there in the engineering school.
UT is filled with incredible people and resources. But it definitely varies between schools and even within departments. If there's a drawback to UT, it's that the quality is far from consistent. But I wouldn't expect anything else from a school with over 50,000 students, 16,000 employees, and half million alumni.
It's not often that your academic advisor is someone you've had as a professor in multiple classes, and who has followed your academic track nearly every semester, and who is one of the top researchers in their field. But that's what I got during my 4.5 years there in the engineering school.
UT is filled with incredible people and resources. But it definitely varies between schools and even within departments. If there's a drawback to UT, it's that the quality is far from consistent. But I wouldn't expect anything else from a school with over 50,000 students, 16,000 employees, and half million alumni.
Oh I was "only" a liberal arts student. I thought I wanted to go to law school (and did for a year, but HATED IT . . . anyway). The liberal arts department, being the largest, wasn't completely filled with slackers, but there were quite a few of them. There were some very smart students who were Plan II, or they were LAH, or (and this was pretty common) they started in the Liberal Arts department because the entrance standards were less difficult, and thereafter planned to streak into McCombs or some other department. I worked for a liberal arts department in the University for a while and was dumbstruck by how indifferent the professors were to their students. They couldn't be bothered to offer any type of insights into their students' projected paths. There were exceptions, but they were rare. The egos in that department were out of control. Academics.
I enjoyed my education insofar as I did meet one professor (who was actually a graduate assistant working toward her doctorate) who left me more inspired and challenged than most of my full professors. Most of those classes were in gigantor lecture halls in Jester or Welch. Although I had some great seminars my last three semesters--there was lots of reading, three page critical analysis papers related to reading due three times a week, and a premium on class participation--that's more my style. Up close and personal engagement with your fellow students and professors.
I wish that UT had had a Global and International Studies program when I was an undergrad. I believe they are now working toward one. And AFTER I graduated I found out they were offering undergraduate minors from the Information School. Bummer. I would have loved an opportunity to do that! Either way I have to get my toosh back to school for a master's of some sort.
Oh I was "only" a liberal arts student. I thought I wanted to go to law school (and did for a year, but HATED IT . . . anyway). The liberal arts department, being the largest, wasn't completely filled with slackers, but there were quite a few of them. There were some very smart students who were Plan II, or they were LAH, or (and this was pretty common) they started in the Liberal Arts department because the entrance standards were less difficult, and thereafter planned to streak into McCombs or some other department. I worked for a liberal arts department in the University for a while and was dumbstruck by how indifferent the professors were to their students. They couldn't be bothered to offer any type of insights into their students' projected paths. There were exceptions, but they were rare. The egos in that department were out of control. Academics.
Well I think you explained the problem right there - liberal arts is unfortunately the "catch all" school, which means you get all of the 'bottom of the barrel' students. And I think the quality of the students really brushes off on the faculty.
It sucks for those in liberal arts who actually want to excel. I took a few classes (2, I think?) in the liberal arts department for electives. I thought one professor was great, knew a whole lot about the class topic and seemed sincere in wanting to share that knowledge with us, and one professor who couldn't care less (or appeared so). So it was a pure toss up in my limited experience.
But, for the general class of prospective students, the liberal arts department shouldn't be taken as the quality of education UT, in general, provides. It will vary from top notch to mediocre, and 3,000 levels in between.
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