Commentary Letter

Hey Taylor,

I am so frustrated! I went to my advisor again and she will not over ride the My UCF system to get me in a Chemistry II lab. I know what you are thinking; didn’t I take Chemistry II a year ago? Yes, but I still haven’t been able to get in a lab. Not being able to sign up for the classes that are required is a real problem here at University of Central Florida. So before you decide to transfer here you should think about if this would affect your graduation date. To make matters worse I need 12 hours a semester to keep my Bright Futures Scholarship, so I sign up for random classes I don’t need so I can fulfill that requirement. Do you think you would take classes not needed to get hours that are required to maintain Bright Futures if you went here? Why won’t they just open up more class? That question puzzles me. I was talking to one of my science professors and he told me that there are 600 students taking the lecture class and they only offer 300 students a place in the lab. That is just crazy, how am I ever going to sign up for the lab when 300 other students are fighting for my same class? I also just heard that Bright Futures is only going to pay for enough credit hours that happen in four years while not you finish the requirements to get a diploma or not. So if I never get my Chemistry lab and go over the four years worth I won’t be able to get a degree because I was able to sign up for the classes I need. Does Bright Futures realize this is happening to the students? You know if we can’t add more classes why because of teacher cuts don’t you think we should add more students to the designated small classes? So in this case instead of only have 30 people in each lab we can add maybe 10 more for a total of 40. That would help a lot. This problem is going to make me be a fifth year senior out on loans just trying to get a chemistry lab. Hopefully I won’t end up being one of those old people that are in the class because I will never get special pick on getting my classes first. The worst thing of it all is that I can’t even sign up for classes yet and 5 of the 19 sections offered for the lab at this time are full. How is that even fair? You should really consider other schools first that have enough teachers or room more students before you decide on University of Central Florida. Taylor, I wish I never left Clemson University because I did not have this problem once when I was there. Every time I signed up for a class I got it. University of Central Florida really needs to fix this probably for the students so we can graduate on time.

Sincerely,
Kellsey