University of Washington Bothell — Attraction in Bothell

Their COVID restrictions do nothing to protect the safety and wellbeing of students—don’t kid yourself they are making the minimum effort possible. Wearing a mask is allegedly required? I see faculty making no effort to enforce this and well over half the students blatantly ignoring it (masks over just their mouth, around their neck, etc.). The extent of proof of vaccination is an online survey that asks if you’re vaccinated, and to provide dates when you would have gotten the vaccine. That’s it… it’s one big ‘trust fall,’ taking thousands of students at their word. I’ve never felt more at risk for COVID than I do now going back to school in person.

It’s truly disappointing, this school gracefully mastered the transition to online school in early-pandemic days and my learning was thoroughly enhanced as a result. It’s back to wasting 3 hours in traffic a day after wasting an entire year abiding by quarantine measures to stay “safe,” just to sit in a room at a university that throws caution to the wind. It’s back to no recorded lectures so they can’t be watch at the students’ discretion that best suits OUR learning style. It’s back to the failed factory style, 1950s education model, that takes no individual into consideration and overtly stresses memorization and not mastery, yet but again.

I gather It’s a boomer complex within the powers that be, this desperation to cling to a dead “normal,” that—frankly—is only cutout to benefit the staff. Students are packed shoulder-to-shoulder in a sardine can just like COVID never happened, which is really irritating for those of us that aren’t privileged like the staff here, and getting sick would effecting train-wreck our entire lives, plunging us into socioeconomic disparity. Thanks for the hand sanitize that smells like dumpster water, I guess. It’s a shame that it took a global pandemic to see that I get nothing out of this university for what I pay—not like I did with online classes, anyway. They should have just kept everything online that could be online. Labs in person made sense, but lecture in person is the most useless thing I’ve ever done in...

It's a really nice campus, but be aware it's dangerous and right next to two freeway ramps. I've had people take items from my car, including note books, drives, SD cards, electronics. They even return them as a form of gaslighting or after modifying them. Also if you fall asleep in your car at the school, the attackers use some kind of gas or aerosols through the AC and/or windows to incapacitate their victims before breaking in and going through their belongings. Be careful. They appear to be very well versed and organized in breaking into cars. They've done several kinds of attacks, including relay attacks. They also stalk their victims through the area and possibly beyond to access their belongings, so they are likely well embedded in the area, if not the region. They are very aware of people's patterns at the school, whomever they are.

The designers could have done some better decisions to make it less easy to get to the freeway.

Otherwise it's next to some decent trails, other than being a stones throw away from the freeways. The campus is nice, and the staff are personable...

Academic here is OK, but the office of Registrar/admissions don’t know what they are doing, and some of staffs seem not familiar with university policy. I always have a hard time to register classes. When I transferred in, they did not enter any of my previous transfer credits. Because of that, the UW system placed me into class of freshman and earned zero credits. This delayed my registration date, and I might not get into classes I want to take. When I emailed them about questions, it looks like they answer everything in the world but besides what I am asking about, and refused to address issues. But thankfully, my academic advisor is knowledgeable and respond email on time, and register me manually into the class, otherwise, I can’t imagine what will happen. Probably stay one more year, because a lot of classes here only offer once a year. And also their diploma takes 3-4 months to process and mail, and they said no ways to expedite. Typically, it takes 4-6 weeks to process diploma for other universities, but 3-4 months is...