Current Upperclassman at Carnegie Mellon: ASK ME ANYTHING!

Generic.Name
Wed, 30 Nov 2022 02:45:22 +0000

I’m sorry but you are completely sugarcoating it.

It is completely a stress culture and professors very rarely want to help. All large required classes have a bunch of TA’s who pick up the work of answering questions, but often Office Hours are an hour and there are hundreds of students queued up to get help, so you hang in the queue for 55 minutes and get 5 minutes of help. There is VERY LITTLE actual support from TA’s and professors and the academic integrity policy is so strict that few students want to even study together because they’re afraid to be disciplined.

Honestly, you sound like a professor masquerading as a student.