University of Georgia

I really enjoyed my time at UGA. I had a lot of great professors and took really cool classes I wouldn't have normally thought were available or thought about. The first year, it was really hard adjusting, but by my sophomore year, I started to get more involved, and it felt more like home. In my fifth year, I did the Music Business program, and it completely changed the trajectory of what I wanted to do, and helped me find a new professional career path I didn't even know existed. I LOVED this program,... Read More I met so many cool people and made life-long friends, and learned about an industry I became really passionate about.

The MBUS program helped me create a community in college, and really enriched my college experience. I would do it all over again if I could. I miss college, UGA was awesome.

I attended The University of Georgia for my Bachelors in Psychology. I was there all four years and was able to work part time on campus for three of them. As for my education, I was happy with the majority of the courses that I took. Some of the general education requirement classes were a little trying at times because I only needed them to graduate and did not find them interesting or enjoyable. I enjoyed my psychology courses and liked most of my professors. The downside to being at a large research... Read More institution is that getting to know your professors is difficult to do unless you go to office hours regularly. Most professors in the psychology department are researchers and many do not inherently enjoy teaching, which can make for harder classes and less personal connection with students during class. I also had professors leave to go to conferences and miss class, which is good for the university but not for the students. I was very disappointed with the advisers for my major. We have two for all psychology majors and the one I had knew virtually nothing about applying to graduate school beyond that I had to take the GRE. I had to do a fair amount of research on my own that I feel could have been provided by the department easily. I did not feel that anyone was all that interested in me as an individual, especially as one person among hundreds of other psychology majors. You must make a concerted effort to get to know people and get anything done. Overall though the classes were enjoyable and I learned a lot about advocating for myself and my professional ambitions.

I transferred to UGA form Georgia Tech, mostly because of social pressure. UGA, much like other institutions of higher learning, was a gigantic bureaucratic machine intent of churning out people who could say they were graduates. I found my core classes pitifully easy and the teachers largely disengaged with the students. My higher level courses were significantly better, with passionate professors and TAs who were willing to help. The campus is large and getting around was occasionally an issue... Read More (especially if living off-campus), but the free bus system helped in that area (as did owning a bike).