<p>Ok....so is being in the Honors College worth it?</p>
<p>Can you guys give some insight on your experiences?</p>
<p>Basically,...what are the best benefits about it? and the worst?</p>
<p>Do they separate from the rest of the student body and make you feel apart? Is the social atmosphere worse?</p>
<p>One of my friends did the Honors Program at UF, and told me about his experience. He did enjoy the perk of being in a higher quality dorm (Hume), but said that it’s comfort was nearly offset by it’s farther distance from the classes compared to the other dorms. </p>
<p>He personally found the social atmosphere to be worse, and the people who stayed there were not quite his “type”.</p>
<p>Another perk is smaller class sizes, which some prefer, while others would rather be able to go unnoticed.</p>
<p>In the end, whether the Honors Program is worth it is truely only a judgement you can make yourself. My friend switched out after his first semester, but there’s many others who enjoy it for a long time.</p>
<p>I don’t think you have to be alienated at all.</p>
<p>Academically, honors is only one class per semester in the first two years. That means that only 1 out of your 4 or 5 classes are honors, the rest will be with the general student population. While I think it is possible to do more than one class per semester, and a few people probably do, you will only spend four lower-level classes of you undergraduate career in honors classes.</p>
<p>The dorms are better. Hume is the best dorm (also more expensive). It is true that it is further from the lib arts(Turlington)/chem building, but it really isn’t that far (I think it’s like a 10 min walk, definitely doable, and buses are readily available). Also, Hume is closer to the physics and engineering buildings, which can be of benefit to those physicist/engineers among us (*cough, ahem, me *cough).</p>
<p>Also, Hume isn’t just honors students, honors students get priority-picking but other students can (probably won’t) get in. Plus, you can be in the honors program without rooming at Hume; thus, you don’t need to live around the honors students.</p>
<p>So, honors is as isolating as you choose to make it, but, at it’s minimum, you don’t have to be separated from the general public. I’d say it’s worth it (and I am pursuing it).</p>