UCF review: Terrible school, no good education, abusive teachers, bad admin, incompetent 9

I was forced to take a test during a fire alarm by one teacher at ucf and I had already complained about having to take a test during knocking windows out of a wall behind the class with the same teacher! Seems the dean did nothing! Complained again and they did nothing again! The teacher said if I have issues she can let me take it somewhere else no we should all have an issue with a fire alarm blaring during a test! We learn this in kindergarten! Quiet during a test! This eludes college professors and deans at ucf! Do not go there! Their staff is the worst imaginable! Especially top administrators! They don’t give a [censored] about students! They rather Tresspass you for getting mad then help you! And they will have you trespassed without even asking you to leave! Meaning it’s an illegal Tresspass! But they own their own police department so they get away with it!

Not only did I graduate with ptsd it all started with getting punished by ucf student conduct for emailing my own sga member! She had complained that I singled her out! I sent her a follow up email after a meeting stating “I didn’t think she was representing the student properly..” I sent the email to two student government members and she was able to claim I singled her out? I explained she singled herself out when you joined sga and put her email on the website for us to email them! They literally punished me for contacting my own sga member! This ballooned into more attacked empty promises panic attacks and more punishment for speaking up about it! They called it inflammatory remarks! Do not go to this school unless you want to graduate with mental illness!

This school is vile. I was involuntarily placed in a program “disadvantaged” students because of my socioeconomic background, SAT score, and my high school GPA even though it was over 3.0. I had no idea why I was in there. We had to take mandatory “student success” classes and “college skills” classes which if we didnt finish we would be dropped from the university. I turned 18 and ready to start college only to be treated like a kid who was not an adult. They micromanaged you. They forced compliance to attend “academic advisory” meetings even though they werent helpful at all. At one of my academic advisor meetings, I mentioned I might be interested in pursuing a Ph.D later on. She quickly dismissed the idea and said I wasnt capable of doing that. I was incensed. She knew nothing about me or my past or how hard I worked. Every academic advisor at UCF is garbage - they dont know what they’re talking about and never offer helpful advice. When I wanted to transfer to UF because I hated UCF so much, I was literally told that I had too many credits at UCF and I couldnt finish at another university even though that was a lie. When I trouble with my major - another acadmic advisor said I should just major in Humanities because I had taken Humanities I and II. When I said I had no interest in the subject she said, well you already took those classes. When I asked her what kind of job I could get majoring in Humanities, she went blank. I was floored by how incompetent they were. I regret going to UCF. Its such a [censored]ty school. The professors are awful. The academic advisors have no idea what they’re talking about. The student body are all idiotic. The frat culture is atrocious. Such a waste a time.

Had a micro biology course at the university in 2014. We were given the task of collecting samples to swab for our big lab final project. I decided to swab the top of the card reader on the vending machine, and finished by swabbing the cell cultures petri dish in the allotted format that was instructed by the professor. Thanks giving break rolls around, I spent the weekend with my pregnant gf and enjoyed family time as well as studied for my biochemistry courses and micro lecture. Came back to school on that Monday to find my sample had turned yellow, I brought this up to the teacher. She informed me that I found mrsa( sorry for spelling) and confiscated my petri dish. I spent the rest of that day in lab twiddling my thumbs with the teacher telling me not to worry about if. My lap partner confided in me that I should be worried. My friend in the class said she had no clue as to what to do. I went from a B to D mark in that class. I couldn't believe that I could have A's on the lecture exams, A's in Doctor Kolpashikovs Biochemistry lecture. And flunked this lab. I felt utterly screwed and disenfranchised in life. I now work as a chemist without a degree so theres that money's good but man. You can really begin to learn to hate pink haired monsters. Worst school ever.

The head of the acting department mentioned in your complaint (Be Boyd) is not only rude, but extremely racist. If you're not black, it's definitely in your best interest to take your talent elsewhere especially considering how low UCF tends to go with the plays (evil white villain etc...).

-Anonymous

I was nearing completion of my BSN in UCF's school of Nursing. We were discussing the suicide ratio between men and women in a mandatory participation class discussion. I was called on to give my interpretation as to why males commit suicide 4 to 1 over females. I was cornered, and I forgot that we live in a time of politically correct feminist nightmares. I said "What about sexual dynamic?". The teacher asked for an explanation. "Well" I said, "men typically seek the affections of women, not the other way around. Men are pursuers and women are pursuees (sic)" etc etc. Nothing rude, vulgar, misogynistic etc. I just said what I thought everyone already understood to be the truth... and one of the many reasons for the suicide discrepancy (along with PTSD from service etc etc). I was called into the office that afternoon by one Frances Iacobellis along with one Nancy Duckworth... both my professors in the nursing program. They told me I was mentally ill, and I was out of the program. I had taken over 20K in student loans already, and had a great GPA with mostly A's and a few B's... for the entire 4.5 (out of 5) semesters for the program. I was engaged with the program, had completed all my clinical rotations satisfactorily etc etc.

I angered a couple of ultra leftwing liberal feminists by stating what I though everybody knew to be the truth already. They got malicious with me, and upon my final meeting with them, they had armed police (UCF cops) escort me out of the building. Now this makes it sound like I was kicking and screaming right. Nope, just as calm and cordial as ever. The cops seem to know the score, we shook hands, and I left the parking lot of the Cocoa Regional UCF campus for good. I had no idea that these aging liberal feminists were this malicious. I honestly didn't know I had provoked them so badly. If I could go back I would have responded "The suicide rate is so skewed because men are oppressive and violent, and women are great!" Alas, I have the emotional intelligence of a goldfish, and I didn't realize grade-school girl manipulations and schemes were part of the pre-reqs. It totally sucked. If you are a male... do not expect the right to due process at UCF. They will gladly take your money and give you the boot. Now if you're comfortable with being a liar, then you should have no problem there, and you'll fit right in. Thank you for reading. Sincerely, Matthew Robert Bryant.

I went to UCF in the early to mid 80's when they were developing the template for big university, big money, poor results college education. As with everything in this Mickey Mouse town, it's about building the best themed attraction you can to get your double-digit annual growth numbers so you can crow like a rooster at cocktail parties how big your member, I mean University, is. Still living in the area and having interviewed and tried to hire UCF grads, I can say they aren't learning much of anything in school except how to ask for outrageous salaries with now real-world experience despite taking 5, 6 or more years to get a degree from a 4-year college.

I have the proud distinction of saying I DROPPED OUT OF UCF because I TAUGHT MYSELF the things my professors couldn't, wouldn't or shouldn't teach (back when full professors still taught, not their GA's or worse, the Internet). And, I taught myself ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING and COMPUTER SCIENCE upper-level work by buying $8 schaum's outlines and working problems in classes like circuits, EM fields, discrete mathematics, etc. It was so laughable, that I skipped my 300+ student lectures for the 4-credit hour EE circuits class and spent that time working problems from the Schaums book (because the textbook was worthless and the professor even more so) and ACED EVERY EXAM! I blew the curve, which I'm sure confounded and pissed off the 150 or so students sitting +/- a std. deviation from the 73% norm. At that point I realized what a total waste UCF was, and college in general, and have since has a very successful six-figure career in a technical field (ended up in software consulting) by teaching myself what I needed to know, when i needed to know it out of books and online resources. The ironic thing is at a young age of 30 I was leading project teams of much more seasoned degreed professionals on software projects and survived the dot-com bust when others were decimated by having the adapt-or-die attitude and ability to train myself, whereas my collegues were clamoring for more "formal" college education to keep them relevant and employed.

Bwahahaha! It's a new world that's changing at internet speed. College is no place to become and remain competitive. And if there were hope for a college or University preparing young adults for future of success, it ain't UCF! That wannabe city of tomorrow is nothing more than a paper mill of low-value degrees with no cache' or credibility even amoungst the less that impressive Florida schools such as UF and FSU.

If you're considering UCF, save your money. Learn to teach yourself and get to work. Become an autodidact like myself and write your ticket. That ticket is worth much more than any piece of paper an old-guard college or university can provide you, especially UCF

Do not waste your time and money on UCF! The school is simply too big, with too many students, and the quality of the education you get there is deplorable. As a graduate student, the classes I am taking are just a formality and you don't learn anything at all. Every student passes with a B. I feel so bad for the undergraduates I TA for, they just don't seem to have a clue about anything from lecture. It is sad to see how big the classes are, I have been a TA for a general chemistry class of 300 students! Also, there is no advising system at all! You are completely left on your own, and you have to really nag the department secretaries to get basic information on classes and policy. UCF lives up to its reputation as a degree mill, and provides the most impersonal college experience.
I would go to a nicer, smaller school, where you can get more PERSONAL attention from your adviser and professors.

I was an international student from Panama. I studied in UCF from 1992 to 1996. It is the year 2014, and I am beginning to recuperate from the UCF nightmare.

Bad teachers. Some of them wrere almost impossible to understand because they were foreign. A few teachers even failed 90% of their students yet they had no trouble telling jokes in class, as if we were paying to see a comedian. I feel sorry for anyone who goes there on a scholarship.

Most courses I took were not even related to Electrical Engineering. Instead they were Engineering Core courses. Just the basics about every form of engineering out there. I am sure Principles of Electrical Engineering is as useful to an Industrial Engineer as Principles of Engineering Economics is to me, or Principles of Environmental Engineering, as if I would ever need that. Only Electronics 1, 2, and Digital Design helped me. The other 21 courses were worthless. I got a bachelor degree that was as good as a truck driver certificate. When I returned to Panama, I found myself in the same position as I was in the US with a work permit. I knew nothing useful, so I had to take small courses in web design and become a web designer instead.

As I began to recuperate, I did research on Panama's EE programs, and I realized that it was way better than UCF's Electrical Engineering Program, at least it was about EE most of the time. I took Cisco and Java Courses instead, since the EE profession left me with one hell of a bad taste in my mouth. Most EE students in UCF never saw how inane the EE program was back in the 90s (not sure about how bad it is today) because they could work while studying (something that is not possible for international students). Like I said, only three courses in basic electronics were worth a dime, and only two or three teachers were good. Every time job interview I got sounded to me like the interviewer was speaking in Mandarin, since I had no idea of what he/she was talking about.