The University of Texas at Arlington Top Questions

What's the one thing you wish someone had told you about freshman year?

Emma

The lack of care for the students. All UTA wants is money and I wish I would have know that because I would not have attended at all.

Laura

I wish I had known that although UT Arlington is not as "popular" as many of the other well known Texas universities, it is still a great school and deserves more credit than it receives. Not having a football team doesn't mean there isnt anything to enjoy here. Arlington is full of diversity and new places to go, new restaruants to try and its smack in the middle of DFW!

Valerie

That there advisors in the College of Business do not help you graduate on time...

Therese

How to budget.

Courtney

That it was more of a commuter school, and that the campus cleared on the weekends. I may have chosen to live at home instead of moving to campus if I would have known this.

Melanie

Take upper level classes and lower level classes together.

Eric

That the parking is pretty bad.

Ashley

Its funny, but I thought every major city especially in Texas had a bus . If I had known that, I would have factored in needing to buy a car.

Bryan

Sometimes I feel like there are a lot of opportunities to get involved, but the few times that I have tried to contact a couple of different organizations, I never got responses back.

Megan

How many student activities there were, I was really surprised about finding out that alot of the academic majors have clubs and societies for there students as well as intramural sports. It was kind of shocking to see how culturally diverse the campus was, it was a great surprise though. However on the negative list I wish I'd known more about the parking rules, I ended up with a ticket. Opps.

jill

How rough the drive would be. I drive 12 hours a week, 400 miles to attend UTA.

Tram

I wish that I had known more people - social networking.

Carina

How to be study better.

Samantha

I wish I had known that going to school for a boy, even if you love him, was not intelligent

Andrea

its all good

Heather

What professors to take and what classes did not transfer from community colleges.

Joselyn

The class size

Ashley

I wish I had know how dead the campus would be on weekends.

Kathryn

I wish I had known that there was not enough parking near the buildings where I have class and I wish I had known that the Education Department has no specific building (just parts of 3 buildings) and that the College of Engineering has 5...

Patrick

I wish I would?ve known how many options and good professors are available at UTA for English majors. Beforehand I had heard nothing of the school?s English program and somewhat dreaded it, but after my first few major-level courses, I?m already quite impressed and proud of my own improvement.