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The website is confusing to navigate. The my.uh.edu website is also confusing to navigate, you literally have to click every button to understand it's function.
A good majority of people in my classes seem unambitious and just want the easy cheating way out. It is not networking. It is free-riding off of your peers. If you do not attend class do not pretend and ask for help. That really ticks me the wrong way. People need to own up to their own mistakes and ask for tutoring from the learning center or help from their professors. Of course there are a few intelligent people in the crowd who I respect. Personally, I've had decent professors who understood the subject and would inspire students as they inspired me.
The buildings look old and crusty and I'm tired of seeing gum imprints under every table-seat I sit in.
There are plenty of parties and drugs to pass around. I'm not just talking about over-the-counter. Depending on the strictness of your RA at your dorm they don't even mind you underage drinking, illegally smoking, or getting wasted and returning to your dorm. The hallway would smell like weed. Don't be surprised if you see someones bile in the middle of the hallway, or your roommate smoking weed in your room. In terms of security for the CV dorm, not secure at all anyone can just prance right in even if they didn't live there. I knew moody residents who would use our laundry, computer room, and weight room. This would make their presence extremely crowded.
Freshman year I lived in the new CV dorm. Move in day was really stupid. I don't understand why I had to sit in the car for the longest time and wait 2 hours just to approach the building without unpacking my things. They don't make move-in day last one week instead they junk pile 500 students to move-in on one particular day. Which makes no sense whatsoever. Afterwards my dad had no idea where to park and had to walk a good distance to come back to the dorm building, in hot Houston weather it's not fun walking outside. There is nothing to do on campus and you are surrounded by a not so safe neighborhood area. The new metro line they are connecting should help with doing things outside of campus. The city has much more life then the university area.
Campus is pitch black at night and it's kind of scary I never suggest walking alone. Tier 1 University? Stop self-proclaiming.
U of H is my fourth university; I've attended what are considered 'better' and 'worse' universities previously; as such I feel that I hold a unique perspective.
I hated every second of UH. Here's why:
1. I wouldn't describe myself as super-brilliant, but I was smarter than all of my professors, except for the math teachers. Even worse, I felt that I was 'older', or more emotionally mature. This was depressing. I found myself a couple times unwillingly in a stature war with a couple of them. I was under the impression that they found me intimidating. The math professors thought I was arrogant, and failed me on purpose the first set of exams in order to 'teach me a lesson'. This brings me to the second point.
2. All the kids at U H are white, suburban, and have no will or personality. Right-- that's obviously false if you look at the U H demographics, but it seemed to be true of the math department. I'm rather shy and retiring myself, but the work I do requires me to yell at people, lay down the law, and generally put myself out there. I'm used to dealing with conflict and generally saying what's on my mind. I felt very out of place in the U H classrooms. It seemed that the other kids in my classes had gone to reasonably decent public high schools where they actually taught you things, had stable home lives, jobs which paid a living wage, and didn't have much experience in the adult world except at UHouston. Many of them struck me as overachievers; reasonably bright kids who worked really hard and had become really good at school. The coursework we did reflected this; for the first time in years I was required to turn in homework, and we had quizzes every two weeks. I understand that the professors were trying to 'keep us on track', make sure we were learning things, but for someone like myself who had a lot of bullshit going on in the background, having to be constantly accountable for the course material was not feasible.
I love school, I love learning, but after a pretty awful spring semester juggling work, family, and really stupid feuds with arrogant old men with bad attitudes, I think I'm going to need a good long break before I'm ready resume courses.Hopefully something I've said in all this will be useful to someone considering attending UH.
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