To whom it may concern, here is my trip report for UCF. We stayed for 2 full days, including attending the NMSF event and also 2 half days. This’ll be pretty long so beware!! (This is all from a student’s perspective) I apologize in advance for any spelling/grammar errors
We flew in on Wednesday evening from CA and went to Steak n Shake off of University Blvd. for dinner, one of my favorite east coast eateries! We walked there from our hotel and it was surprisingly cold! I guess we missed the hot humidity that I was hoping to experience but instead got REALLY nice weather. One thing to note is that the intersections on Univ. Blvd are horribly timed so you have to be really careful as a pedestrian when crossing the street.
On Thurs, we went to the UCF campus for their 10am tour. I’d also like to note that if you were unable to schedule a tour well in advance, check the day before or the day of for openings! That’s how we got our tour and I noticed the same thing happened for Wed tours. Anyways, we went to the Duke Energy Center for the tour which started out with a basic presentation about admissions, stats, etc. Then they split us off into 4 groups and away we went.
I can’t remember the specifics but here are a few points that I found interesting. The Reflecting Pond(the centerpiece of the campus) was broken during Hurricane Irma