University of Aberdeen

There would have been less hassle with other residents, subwardens, and porters to deal with.

You can't take 3000 and 4000 level couress with 1000 and 2000 levels. In addition they only offer one section of each course a semester and so many courses timetable out other courses.

Continuos assessment is a good thing, but don't expect it at U of A.

I can't do research and take classes at the same time so I had to add on another year of study at my home university.

The university itself needs to be more organized and less fickle in attitudes towards students. For instance, they they stress that students should be more responsible and act as adults and that they aren't goig to be lead by the hand all the time, but then they do things like check homework and take attendance in classes. The subwardens in accommodations do nothing as far as community goes and residents are largely unmonitored, resulting in loudness at all times of the day, misuse of kitchen areas, drug use, and other things that don't happen as often or as blatantly in US dorms.

The oil industry has driven the cost of living up here in Aberdeen and so goods and services cost more. I also had to pay for a cell phone (the alternative was to pay for a land line) which I don't have to at my home universtiy. Accommodation was catered but they only provided breakfast and dinner, so I had to pay for lunch everyday on top of what I paid for housing/meals already. Normally I wouldn't travel in the State, and if i did I would do it with friends... here I traveled a lot but by myself and on trains.