<p>I really don’t think that has anything to do with it… maybe it does though. Nobody knows I’m a transfer and nobody asks.</p>
<p>I feel transfer student earned more respect. We worked harder to get to UT and fought against people with more competitive GPA’s. We weren’t shoe-in’s from the top 10.</p>
<p>How does he even know you’re a transfer student? People won’t know you transferred unless you tell them. You’ll see new people with each semester so it’ normal to see someone new.</p>
<p>I don’t think making friends as a transfer will be anymore difficult than a freshman who doesn’t know anyone going there beforehand.</p>
<p>will it be harder for me since i’m transferring in the spring, and not fall.</p>
<p>msolo45 that’s bull. Every time I go to my orgo professor, he ignores me during office hours when I raise my hand to ask questions. </p>
<p>specifically, once when I asked this reaction mechanism does not have any practice problems in the textbook; where should I get problems for this mechanism,
He replied: “Uh, we have done that reaction the last semester so look in the back of the index.” </p>
<p>That was bull. He knew that I was a transfer student so he blames that on purpose on me coming here in the spring. Which was also a lie because that reaction mechanism was not covered until the spring semester.</p>
<p>As for how he knows I am a transfer student, in our orgo class we have less than one hundred students (I believe) and there is only six who go to office hours. Therefore, I am only one of the six who goes to office hours and so he that is how he knows I am a transfer student. He has never seen my face before last semester. </p>
<p>And somehow every time he says something “This will not be covered because we covered it last semester… so if you’re a transfer student” he looks in my direction.</p>
<p>And this professor is also one of those profs who ignore questions during lecture on purpose either by not turning his head to your direction or staring into the overhead projector while he writes the slides or talk faster to make you copy the lecture notes faster.</p>
<p>Sounds like you just have a ****ty professor…</p>
<p>@xtra</p>
<p>Haha care to give us that professor’s name? I’d like to avoid him next semester.</p>
<p>@ Xtra</p>
<p>That professor is a dirt bag.</p>
<p>Edit: I guess this is something we transfer students have to get used to. Many UT professors carry significantly more prestige than the professors of our old colleges. It must be natural for many of them to act condescendingly to those with “impure” academic backgrounds.</p>
<p>I never really thought of the the importance of lower tier universities having more “approachable professors.” In an upper division math course you can get away with asking questions that have to do with simple algebra, whereas at UT the math professor would probably address you with disdainful ridicule.</p>
<p>I will not post the name here for fear of retribution. but you can pm me and I will give you that person’s name. He has been teaching organic chemistry here since at least 2003, and has quite a reputation for hard organic tests.</p>
<p>on a sidenote, he came to class on thrusday after the orgo test and told us how the curve was the most generous he gave in ten years. Yet… he was gone for lecture the two days before the test. And he was gone two days before the first orgo test too. Hmm… Is there a correlation???</p>
<p>so is it going to be hard to make friends as a spring transfer??</p>
<p>Manayy, are you asking me? If so, I have met three to four new people (as in, not from high school). but the rest (and my closer friends) are actually from high school.</p>
<p>thanks for the answer. did you join any clubs?</p>
<p>I’m a freshman currently and I really haven’t meant many people (maybe 4-5 that I don’t consistently hang out with). Most of the kids from my HS went to Texas A&M :(</p>
<p>Manayy, yes I did. I am in Alpha phi sigma, FIMRC, quiz bowl, and recycling at Robert lee moore hall.</p>
<p>I feel like there are some things you can do as a freshman or transfer to help. I plan on going to UT next year, OOS…I will most likely end up doing random roomate, going to orientation, and joining a frat…the three of those things I think will help me transition into a 95% in-state school well, atleast i think they will.</p>
<p>@iambored
did you join any clubs?</p>
<p>@ Manayy
I joined a couple- My first semester I took 17 hours and it was kind of hard to juggle school + organizations. I joined AiChE, Pre Pharm Society, my dorms RHC, and TCS</p>
<p>I’m transferring there in fall '10 and I’m worried about the same thing. At least I know that someone else is too. :)</p>
<p>There are suggestions on this thread that may be helpful.</p>
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