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Senior Survey, 1998

What would you do differently

Responses to Q8: What would you do differently if starting over at CU-Boulder

Responses of those who said they would do something OTHER than listed in the 
response choice options
                                                    

  Quest
  ID#     Major   Other Thing would Do Differently if Starting Over
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  1412    ACCT    working at my part - time job
  0912    ADVT    study abroad
  1162    ADVT    semester in Sain.
  1229    AMEN    study abroad
  0132    AMST    I wish I would have gone to more guest speakers. I wish I 
                  wouldn't have worked at my part time job as much.
  0415    ANTH    being a transfer student, I would seek better counseling
  0621    ANTH    choose a different major(s)
  0881    ANTH    study abroad
  1148    ANTH    spending a lot of money
  1168    ANTH    I'd lay off of the booze and weed.
  1481    ANTH    I would attempt to persuade the college of arts & sciences 
                  that a high degree of specialization within a major should be 
                  applauded, rather than prohibited.(i.e. allow more than 40 
                  hrs. within a giv**
  1343    ARCH    consider a different major of study
  0612    AREN    poor advising
  1023    AREN    fixing computer equipment in the worthless engineering 
                  computer labs
  0052    ASEN    I would put more emphasis on learning and less on getting a's
  0054    ASEN    study abroad
  0352    ASEN    info on double degree possibilities earlier!!
  0624    ASEN    problem was financial aid did not give enough aid relative to 
                  the cost of attending boulder I would recommend CU  to anyone 
                  who's parents could help them out, so they did not have to 
                  work 20-30 hours**
  0691    ASEN    skiing
  1256    ASEN    add a major
  0181    BAAH    core classes
  1011    BAAH    finding out about teachers and faculty
  0963    BASA    work
  1054    BASA    plan ahead starting freshmen year, as much as possible, had 
                  more advising
  0016    BCHM    not take time off
  0924    BCHM    do less science and more humanities
  1063    BCHM    do study abroad program
  1364    BCHM    change my major to music
  0085    BUUD    I transferred to CU  and many of my credits were not accepted 
                  because I had taken the classes at a community college 
                  although in some classes I learned either the same amount of 
                  material of even more**
  0396    CHEM    start here instead of transfer
  1565    CHEN    career services - it ####!
  0038    COMM    I wish that I knew more about college before I had gotten 
                  here.  my high school preparation was pathetic and I wish I 
                  would have taken more classes in high school that prepared 
                  me, or I would have **
  0849    COMM    budget money better
  1035    COMM    take more classes on cultural diversity
  0005    CSEN    procrastinate less
  0036    CSEN    study outside of class work
  0630    CSEN    start out in a different major, which would lead to the above 
                  selection to take
                  less time to graduate
  1228    CSEN    we don't need some credit hours.
  1522    CSEN    never take a class that a graduate student is teaching.
  0151    ECON    ECON. needs a help-lab with tutors
  0188    ECON    taken some time off.
  0614    ECON    be more focused with plans, career, major, etc.  be more 
                  informed about the above topics.  add/drop more,use pass/fail 
                  credits etc.
  0625    ECON    choose a different area of study
  0740    ECON    stay away from fall institute
  1483    ECON    irrelevant classes like core and more on interested courses
  0029    EEEN    I wish I had planned out my semesters better so that I could 
                  have taken advantage of the professor fcqs.  I've been quite 
                  surprised at the number of poor teachers/classes I've had.
  1182    EEEN    sleeping
  0564    ENGL    get residence right away
  0710    ENGL    would have liked more opportunity to experiment with electives
  1161    ENGL    visit denver more often; spent more time doing personal 
                  research (i.e. for fun or/and career)
  1179    ENGL    reconsider major
  1238    ENGL    maybe do an independent study or take an art class
  1283    ENGL    classes that weren't critical to my future, i.e. some of the 
                  useless requirements
  1291    ENGL    study abroad
  1525    ENGL    try and get more scholarships so I wouldn't have had to work 
                  at a job so much
  0023    ENVS    semester abroad
  0508    ENVS    personally, I would have been wise to seriously consider 
                  moving to boulder and immediately coming to college.  I 
                  transferred here when I was twenty and unprepared emotionally 
                  to be going to school. **
  0913    ENVS    working two jobs
  1394    ENVS    would have taken more time to research specific teachers and 
                  talk with others about past faculty experiences before 
                  selecting certain courses.
  0247    EPOB    I changed my mind about my major to late to really start 
                  over, and I am struggling to decided what I will do after 
                  graduation.
  1539    EPOB    apply for more financial aid
  1488    ethn    study abroad
  0207    EVOC    spend more time on campus - but I have a family to take care of
  0345    FMST    study abroad for a semester
  0700    FMST    travel school of world experience
  0419    FNCE    I would study abroad. however, with my major the programs 
                  offered were very limited.
  0755    GEOG    work less
  0105    HIST    working fulltime puts huge strains on my social and academic 
                  life
  0168    HIST    sleeping!
  1301    HUMN    worrying
  1386    IAFS    study abroad for at least 1 year
  0292    INBU    just would've put more effort into my 1st semester classes 
                  and wouldn't have taken so many...
  0841    KINE    I would put less emphasis and time towards working outside of 
                  school...took too much time. I should have put towards 
                  studying.
  0872    KINE    go to jr. college first
  1288    KINE    start here as a freshman instead of transferring as a 
                  sophomore
  1392    KINE    study abroad
  0600    MCDB    already have this is my 2nd CU  degree
  0959    MCDB    I would try not to work full time while attending classes,
  1058    MCDB    different major
  1400    MCDB    less time working to earn money
  0450    MCEN    working outside job not related to major
  1031    MCEN    study abroad
  1141    MCEN    climb more rock in eldo.
  1231    MGMT    move to boulder or closer (commuter student)
  0121    MKTG    semester at sea
  0557    MKTG    abroad
  0677    MKTG    Start immediately in the business school instead of wasting a 
                  year in the lame and pointless department of environmental 
                  studies.  The advisor is awful and ruined the program for me.
  0684    MKTG    trying to find co-operative advisors
  1206    MKTG    investigate professors and how much they expect you to spend 
                  for their classes (i.e.    software, lots of books)
  1292    MKTG    tried to get a career mentor in my field of study
  1315    MUSA    spend less time studying for courses that I consider to be a 
                  waste of time
  0414    MUSC    more effort to financial aid
  0452    NSED    eating residence hall food
  1533    OPNO    I wouldn't have wasted my freshman year doing AFROTC for a 
                  scholarship that was a lot more trouble than it was worth. I 
                  wouldn't have started out taking 3000 and 4000 level classes. 
                  I wouldn't have **
  1040    PLAN   Start open option instead of spending 2 years in a field I 
                  did not like - better advising in arts and sciences, where I 
                  started out would have helped
  1366    PLAN    chose another major
  0286    PRNU    do more volunteer work/paid work in fields related to my 
                  major in order to gain practical experience and exposure
  0136    PSCI    work for some policy changes that affect coming students
  0226    PSCI    keeping teachers happy
  1133    PSCI    I would develop a goal.  that is, I would determine where I 
                  would like to be upon graduation and work toward that 
                  specific position.
  1516    PSCI    I would have studied abroad during a summer
  0109    PSYC    working out of school-an impossibility, but would have been 
                  nice
  0489    PSYC    I wouldn't transfer here, I'd have started here
  0895    PSYC    different major:ethn
  0936    PSYC    I would find advisors who know what the hell they're talking 
                  about, rather than just blindly following what some stupid ta 
                  tells me, or what the psych advisor tells me.  I would try 
                  harder **
  1338    PSYC    work!!
  1405    PSYC    study abroad
  0797    RLST    I would study abroad
  0185    SOCI    assignments that are busy work!
  1194    SOCI    go somewhere more diverse
  1403    SOCI    I would have completed a double major or did some honors work.
  0938    SPAN    seek out multi-cultural opportunity
  1089    SPAN    I would have planned a consecutive course of study, and I 
                  would have attempted to keep life from holding me back.
  0751    WMST    spend less time working, even working only 20 hrs/week took a 
                  lot more than 20 hrs. out of me


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