I have always liked UNCG's campus. It is very attractive, as well convenient. All classes are "within ten minutes walking distance from each other." I am sure everyone from UNCG has heard this line. I believe it is flaunted at every single orientation that UNCG hosts.
I would also like to commend UNCG on its spacing and multitude of courses. Usually, if course times conflict, there is a way to arrange your schedule so you can take everything you want. The times may not be your top choice, but you still can manage to arrange it so you can get to all the courses.
Maybe it is just that way because I am an American student at an American school. All courses are available to me because courses are taught in English and, you know, I can speak enough English to get me by.
However, all the courses here seem to overlap. "Patriotism and Cosmopolitanism" starts at 14:00 and "Social Psychology" starts at 14:40. "Islam in Europe," "War Crimes and Genocides," and "Balkanization to Europeanization" all overlap each other by about 30 minutes. Which, in all honesty, is bad enough. But then you have the placement of classes.
Each faculty building is in a different part of the city here. I'm unsure of exact mileage, but I can tell you the time it takes to get from one place to another. From my dorm, Olowek, it takes at least thirty minutes to walk to any classes in the Rynek. This includes any history classes, which I am taking several of. I would like to know more about Poland's history. In order to get to classes at the Social Science buildings, which include Political and Psychology courses, which I am also taking several of, you have to walk between forty five minutes to an hour in the complete opposite direction you would go for classes in Rynek.
Now, I will commend them, there is public transportation. But even then, to get a bus or a tram from History to Social Sciences would take 45 minutes to an hour. So even if you have 30 minutes to an hour between courses but they are at seperate faculties, chances are, you'll never make it on time. Hence, you won't be able to take the course. Which, in honesty, is terribly frustrating because there are many classes I wanted to take, but they fall under this situation.
I quite miss UNCG's convenience.
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