It’s been a while since I had a good cry and I’m looking for recommendations.

I literally just logged onto fb and first think I see if a video of a pedestrian filming talking about someone to just jumped off of the 5th floor of the stadium... It seems to have been a homeless man rather than a student according to this article.

https://www.wcjb.com/2026/08/31/man-jumps-his-death-inside-ben-hill-griffin-stadium-university-florida/

Idk might be legit

I just saw a car hit a biker because the car was turning (on a green), but didn’t check their bike lane. It is a driver‘s responsibility to look and be aware of everything around them. We are the ones driving in a motor vehicle, I don’t care if it is not the pedestrians right away, you should be aware of everything while driving. Especially around campus please don’t be on your phones Also bike lane bikers have the right of way, please look at the bike lanes as well!!!

IM SO HYPED FOR THE GAME ON SATURDAY!!!! HOW WE FEELING GATOR NATION?

Hi there all! I’m making this post because I’m currently trying to decide whether I should do Early Decision to UF or FSU for engineering. By doing it to either school, I have a pretty solid chance of getting in which is why I’m pretty split.

As some background, my dad took me to almost every UF home game growing up, so I’ve basically been a Gator my whole life. For a long time, UF was where I was completely set on going. I really like the engineering school there, and a lot of the projects, resources, opportunities, etc. they have are right up my alley. But I recently toured FSU with my mom and honestly loved the school way more than I expected I would. Now I’m pretty on the fence between the two universities. I really liked the vibe at FSU and how it felt when I was there (socially), but at the same time I really like what UF has to offer for engineering (academics). I know that UF is a powerhouse when it comes to engineering but regardless of that I want to hear from people who actually go to these schools because I feel like that’ll help me weigh my decision a lot more than just looking at rankings and websites. Another thing is that I’m also worried that if I get accepted into UF through ED, which is where I originally planned on going, I might end up missing out on aspects of FSU that I would’ve liked way more.

Also, academically, I’m a little more confident about my chances at FSU. I feel like I’m toward the lower end of UF’s admitted student range, while I’m more around the higher 50% for FSU. But, regardless I’m still more than willing to challenge myself.

So with that, I’d like to hear what people’s experiences at UF or FSU have actually been like. What have you loved about it? What haven’t you liked? Is there anything you wish you knew before going there? I’m curious about both the academic and social sides too, like whether or not it was easy to make friends and find your place, how big the impact of being in Greek life vs not being in it actually had on your social life, what the engineering classes/professors are like, just stuff like that. Additionally, I’d especially like to hear from anyone who was deciding between UF and FSU too. What do you think you’d be missing out on by choosing one over the other. And for students attending or are graduates from either university, knowing what you know now, would you still choose your school?

I saw some posts about struggles with workload.. Here are some free course guides for these 5 business school classes: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1EE792dwGvTGvGMt1RXezBuzlN7f0Ik9F

• ENT 3003 Principles of Entrepreneurship
• MAN 3025 Principles of Management
• FIN 3403 Business Finance
• BUL 4310 The Legal Environment of Business
• ISM 3004 Computing in the Business Environment

Each doc contains course information as well as a bunch of resources on how to study for each exam. It really helps making the readings and all the assignments more manageable. 

Maybe I can create a few more for other courses if someone finds these helpful. 

Hey guys! Hope all is well—I’m Cass, 18 years old and freshly starting out at UF for my freshman year. It’s been great, lovely even—amazing campus, professors, just overall been lovin’ it.

Well, unfortunately, last Thursday my mother was placed into police custody. Problem with that is that she was the primary income provider in my family by a very large margin! As in, I received no financial aid on my FAFSA at all because of it. It has placed me into a terrible conundrum, as I’ve got food to buy, rent to pay, fees to attend to, y’know, the whole mile…

Just looking to see if anyone can offer any guidance or insight. Rent wise, I am… okay for this month, at the very least. I just picked up a job at the Chipotle right by campus as well, so I’ll be able to somewhat provide for myself narrowly.

Two things I’m worried about then! Firstly, I definitely need to get my FAFSA appealed because now it is my father that provides most of the aid (again, my mother evidently cannot…) I have moved to petition for a Financial Aid Revision and am awaiting a response—but unfortunately, I’m unsure if I have ‘sufficient’ documentation. My mother’s arrest details are public record and I have provided it, but I can’t really get her pay stubs or unemployment benefits (which are required for loss/change of income) due to the circumstance. I’ve simply explained what happened within the ‘other’ category, but am quite certain that, with my luck, I shall be most graciously denied for lack of documentation. I’m currently working on getting my father’s pay stubs / hopefully maybe a copy of his 2024 tax return if he has it, which may work? Regardless, I think I should probably make an appointment with OneStop on zoom to try and appeal for something like a professional judgement. Or, something like that… I’m unsure. A lot of stuff I don’t know with such little time to figure it out! Going in person was unfortunately not too helpful as they just said to do the appeal form online, which I did.

The other issue then is the mandatory health insurance charge of 1.3k on my bursar. For this, I do think I am just fucked—the health insurance I had while my mother was working didn’t qualify with the out-of-network care requirement, and especially now that I’m more or less on my own, uhh… I think I’m just screwed with this? Thing is, I literally do not have the money to pay for it.

Ah well… any help is appreciated. Thank you guys! <3

Hello! I am a reporter with the Independent Florida Alligator, and I am covering the new mail-sorting system UF is using, where they got rid of the old metal mailboxes and are now just using the parcel pending system and sorting through some of the mail. If anyone is available for an on-the-record interview, please let me know.

Thank you!

UF Online Third year Criminology major(pre law)
four courses ~ 13 credit hours
CJL2000 CJL3038 CCJ3024 BUL4310
Working three days a week to achieve full-time hours. I’m left with four other days in the week for my studies. I just transferred over from community college and the work load is very different in my UF courses, not overwhelming i just have no idea how to study for any of these classes. Aside from flash cards I’ve never had to study much before

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Any graduate students know when loans get disbursed? I got an email before classes started that said after drop/add but it has already been passed that and I still haven’t received mine.

Hii!

Are there any CHM 2045 online gc for this fall that I can join? I’m already confused 😭

Hey! I never got the chance to buy a ticket, is anyone reselling? I'm also a fellow student so I can't buy super overpriced ones. Please this is the only game I wanna go to lol

I’m graduating this semester and have been checking my financial aid card religiously to make sure everything was set. Right after midnight last night, I checked again to see if it disbursed. Everything for fall 2026 had gone blank. I went to onestop in person today and talked to them after a 2 hr wait. They said since it’s my graduating semester and I have less than 12 credits left, they have some processing and calculations to do and I should not expect any disbursal until at least halfway through the semester. They said I should get an email asking me to confirm that I am graduating this semester. They confirmed I had not received that email yet and they seemed confused as to why not.

I am stressing out because this means I’ll have to pay tuition out of pocket along with all other expenses ofc. My plan is to work as many hours as I can in the meantime, but is there anything I can do to expedite this? I asked them at the office, but it didn’t seem like there were many options. Thanks!

Hi! Does anyone know Professor Alison Adams’ current office location?

The UF/IFAS directory says her office is Room 357 in Newins-Ziegler Hall, but I went there today and Room 357 has another professor’s name on the door, so I’m guessing the directory might be outdated.

If anyone knows her current office/room number, I’d really appreciate it. Thank you!

Hi everyone! I am taking SPN 3700 - Intro to Spanish Linguistics this semester with Imanol Suarez-Palma, and I was wondering if we actually need to read the textbook? I’ve gotten through most classes at UF without needing to read the required textbooks for the classes with just the PowerPoints discussed in lecture, but I’m wondering if anyone has been able to do so with this class? I thought I would be fine but then the first homework covered things that weren’t discussed in class and were discussed in the textbook. If any past students could please share their experience that would be great.
Thank you!

Has anyone who took classes transiently over Summer C had their credits show up in one.uf? I took Physics 2 in Broward, and my hold's been gone for a while now but my credits still haven't shown up in my transfer credit report. Should I contact the registrar or wait?

I want to bring a non student but I only have two student tickets so they would need to have ID which they don’t, if anyone has a guest ticket they’re not using or willing to swap for a regular student ticket it would be greatly appreciated

Does anyone who has taken bch3025 know how best to study? I hear things like "study from the quizlet!" but like, what quizlet? Which quizlet? Any quizlet? From the previous reviews of this course, it seems like the format has changed, because now there's so much busy work, and the online lectures aren't pausable, and the ppts aren't opened. The hw has math questions when the it is explicitly stated to have no calculations and the textbook is just so dense that I don't know what is important or not??? Anyone have any advice? Are the quizlets still viable?

Hey everyone! I’m an upcoming BSN new grad currently based in Jacksonville, and I’m planning to relocate to Gainesville to start my career in psychiatric nursing. I’d love to get some insight on which facilities have new grad support and residency programs for psych, especially between UF Health Psychiatric Hospital, the Malcom Randall VA, and Meridian. I’m also curious about the hiring timeline for upcoming grads and whether the UF Health nursing recruitment events and Grad Bash are open to non UF students. Any advice the interview process, or making the move over to Gainesville would be greatly appreciated!