@kuitarin
Yes, I know of the honors program. I’m a little upset that the school just doesn’t do a better job for everyone, and not just those in the honors program when it comes to smaller classes, better faculty and more access to research. In any case, I do not think I will graduate on time if I have to do the honors curriculum, and my transfer gpa was not high enough to get an invitation and based on my attitude towards the school this quarter my Fall grades aren’t going to be perfect either (since I’m a little peeved about everything I haven’t given it my best effort).
I am so disappointed that the UC’s create an environment that is the opposite of what is conducive for success and growth. Instead they create a negative environment in which students fight each other for opportunity, have to deal with intentional failing midterm averages in order to force bell curve grading, and then they have to compete for RA positions. Ya know, all of this goes directly against all of both education and psychology of learning research as to what makes for a good learning environment. It’s completely beyond astonishing to me that the flagship public university of our state, which is designed to educate the majority of students in the state, would be subpar in so many fundamental ways.
Students should not have to “fight for what they want.” We are the students. We pay the tuition and they provide the service. We come to learn as customers, what the hell is up with the public school system in this state?
Anyways, I can think of two schools that I know of where bureaucracy does not exist. Stanford University and Santa Clara University. And, I’d infer that Harvard and Yale have very little of it to go around as well. Friends tell me that besides the core at MIT, students are free to do as they please, and they have full access to lab equipment in their dorms, access to machine shops to build and create projects and etc. Why is UC so far behind in these areas?
It seems like the faculty at UCI don’t even realize how inadequate they are, almost as if everyone is ignorant to what goes on at places like Stanford, Harvard, Yale, and MIT. And on top of it all, I see a bunch of dumb asses doing stupid shit on campus and in the local businesses around campus, giving our school a bad name therein by doing so. I mean, I thought UCI was selective? How the fuck did so many dumb fucks make it passed the admissions office?
Now, it’s true, I did not get accepted to Stanford when I applied, nor did I apply to MIT, Harvard or Yale – and I probably would not get accepted. But holy cow, the UC’s are severely overrated for what they do at the undergraduate level. I mean, this just needs to be said for all who are applying as freshman, it’s really not that good of a school.
And guess what, I just learned that I can’t even enroll in Japanese1a – intro to Japanese – because it’s only offered in the Fall. Guess I need to do an extra year of school if I want to learn a foreign language… ----__—. Just great UCI, fantastic. Oh and that bio sci 35 class I’m in is awfully similar to the psych 9a,b and c sequence. Why the hell is the material taught twice(???) in different schools(???) and why doesn’t bio sci 35 satisfy the requirement that 9a, b, and c does? Honestly, none of this makes any sense and the administration at Stanford or Harvard, and even Santa Clara, would never allow anything like this to happen. UCI’s administrative organization is a complete disaster, and we the students, are let down by their shortcomings. And thanks to the bad teaching and ridiculous forcing of grade curves it’s more difficult for me to transfer out of this hell hole.
I feel like I’m being put through the criminal justice system rather than what is supposed to be a time of great opportunity and intellectual growth. UCI just keeps getting better and better… “three cheers for public school!” I cannot believe I am paying $30,000 a year for this crap.
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