SUNY at Albany Top Questions

What's the most frustrating thing about your school?

Lynnette

Sometimes it's hard to find out who to get help from.

Amanda

Too many lecture center classes. It is hard to get a professor to remember you when you share a classroom with 500+ students

Sharon

The most frustrating thing about my school is how hard it is to get a straight answer from advisors. I always get the run around from each department and sometimes leads me to want to give up because of the hassle it imposes on me to get the information I need.

Ashley

I don't find anything to be very frustarting, I really enjoy this school.

Andrew

getting used to a larger school with a wide variety of people from all over the state/country and meeting and getting acqauinted with new people

ally

Although I enjoy attending the University at Albany, I think the most frustrating thing is the issue of having essentially no free time. Being involved in three organizations and taking eighteen credits has taken up all of my time here. I constantly remind myself that I am here to receive an education and build up my professional experience which is why I stay so dedicated and involved.

matthew

the most frustrating thing about my school is the exams are all within the same week and it makes it very stressfull, as well as when you do get the teachers/perfesor that dus not want to help you when its clear you need it.

Angela

The most frustrating thing about my school is the ridiculous parking. It is so overcrowded all the time, and I don't think it's fair that the teachers get the closest parking and the students have to walk really far just to get to class on time. I also think that the school should do a better job of snowplowing the sidewalks and covering them with salt. It's always way too slippery in the winter.

ashley

some classes are really big (especially 100 level courses)

Amanda

It can be difficult to get in touch with them, especially about finances. It seems as if there are many expenses that add up, and I'm already going to be paying back college loans for years as it is.

Teresa

I don't get frustrated easily because I have a very level head, but if I had to pick one thing about my school that frustrates me it would probably be the bad reputation it gets for partying. A lot of people think that SUNY at Albany is a huge party school and that's all anybody does there, but it is such a misconception. I wish the school and the media would recognize all the great things our students are accomplishing as well as our not so proud moments.

Erica

The amount of partying there is is pretty frustrating. I feel as though it is difficult to meet people unless you go out to a party.

Jessica

Too much noise.

ruijuan

People keep saying that it is a party school.

Katie

the food

shavon

The most frustrating thing about my school are the long lines.

Schadracia

Financial aid office

Matthew

The most frustrating thing about my school is when you need to find an answer to an important question no one has an answer for you. Instead someone tells you to go to a certain office, and that office directs you somewhere else, or to the person you just visited.

Anthony

The food isn't so great. Not a very astetically pleasing campus, all buildings are concrete.

Nicole

so many things to do.

Brittany-Rae

The most frustrating thing about my school is signing up for classes. Each semester it's a race to get into the classes you want. Every class seems to have it's seats saved for freshmen and transfers. When you really want a class there is usually a lot of e-mailing to do to the professors of the courses, and if that doesn't work then you have to wait for the first day of class to get a permission number that you're not even positive you can get.

miry

The most frustrating thing for me personally would have to be trying to get a job because I don't qualify for work-study but am in great need of a job that isn't to stressful . It seems to me that the only jobs available for someone in my situation are jobs like in the dining halls where I wouldn't be able to get any work done. I really wanted to try to find a job at some place like the Chemistry lab building or the desk at the gym but it seems impossible at the moment.

Crystal

The size of the classes really limit the ability to get to know your professor.

Minerve

One frustrating thing about my school is the budget cuts and in result there are numerous majors that are getting cut off. Instead of limiting majors, the president of University at Albany should really sit down with a student panel before making any decisions. After all, we the students are the ones that are attending the university and we should be happy in our school setting.

Fatoumata

The big classes sizes becuase very often you don't get a chance to know your professors very well.

Alicia

The most frustrating thing about SUNY Albany is the hoops you have to jump through to get answers from administration.

Daniela

There's nothing frustrating about my school!!

Deborah

I do not find school frustrating at all, as an older student returning to school, I am having a time of my life. The only thing that is sometimes annoying is after you register for a course and find out a week before the class starts that the class has been canceled.

Allison

It is hard to get an exact answer to many questions because you have to go through a lot of different people to find the answer. Also the advisement isnt that helpful.

Samantha

It is very difficult to get into classes I need and am interested in for my major and minor, also the classes are very large lecutre halls so it is difficult to concentrate during class and hear the professor.

Sreyrath

The classes are very big with many students, therefore it is hard to get the teachers' attention to only me. It is also hard to talk about my personal issues with the teachers and how those problems sometimes affect my grades since they only care about how I perform not what I go through in life. School works are very frustrating to me. The teachers usually do not care about my reasons for not getting work done on time, they could be very tough on grading and give out failing grades easily.

Samantha

Size

Janet

The most frustrating thing about SUNY Albany is when the fire alarm goes off in my dorm, everyone has to evacuate from their rooms and go outside . This happened a few times during last semester and it was freezing cold outside. It would be terrible if you were taking a shower and then fire alarm goes off. I see people coming out of the dorm with shorts on or a towel on. What's more frustrating is that you don't know why the alarm goes off.

Teresa

How cold it gets in the winter.

Daniel

My school caters a little too much to minorities when it comes to on campus employment. being a suburban white male is not a crime! i also find the rediculiously cold wind to be a huge problem some days. we could also use a better earthscience department.

Alex

Lately, the thing about this school that I have found the most frustrating is the aggressive ignorance of some of the students. The point of going to school is to learn, and so many people close themselves off to the college experience. Many of the students that attend this school are caucasian, heterosexual, and middle class. They don't understand what it's like to be oppressed, so they ignore oppression. Some have even convinced themselves that oppression does not exist, so much so that they are willing to argue with oppressed people about the subject.

Michael

Dealing with the red tape

Rebecca

The high student to professor ratio. It leaves a lot of up to the student to find another way to get extra help.

Brian

It does not provide the extra career help of a more prestigous school.

Brittany

There really isn't anything frustrating about my school that stand out at this time. The weather can be alittle frustrating for the winter months due to the fact that is gets very cold and the snow will show itself at any given time in the winter. The spring and summer are just great in at Albnay. The only other thing that I can mention is the dorms. There are dorms that have common bathrooms that I can not share so with that in mind I have been very lucky to have a suite dorm for two years so far

Peter

I do love my school for the most part, but the distinct lack of financial aid is rather annoying, especially when I am trying to earn a BS in biology in 2 years and have accrued 88 credits in a year and a half.

Kathryn

The lack of animal science courses that were offered when I chose the school.

Christopher

Some of the teachers are difficult to understand, and on top of it, do not actually know how to teach, so all your learing is self-taught.

James

Labs suck, suitemates are often very loud, the buses only go to walmart on the weekends.

Alex

The most frustrating thing I find at my school in the financial system is very hard if you have no one helping ou in that area. I find myself not getting enough aid and loans to cover total costs.

Sujan

The food, dorms in one word, SUCKS.

Jermaine

The weather, it gets soo cold in the winter, its hard to go places if you don't have your own car.

Kimberly

The podium gets very windy and because of this gets very cold in the winter time. The library needs more outlets for computers.

Gabrielle

The food, if you can call it that, is horrible. I didnt expect gourmet food, but somehow a simple meal like eggs, can be butchered at our cafeteria. I cant imagine how it is possible to do it, but they can.

Rachel

Nothing really.