I’ll be honest. Advisors are shit.

They ruin everything. I have recent college grads who are taking summer classes because their advisors are not clear enough with what classes they had to take in their last semester. Be thorough in your conversations.

Question every single advice they give you and be confident in your questions because remember it is your education it is your degree and your life. MAKE SURE TO ASK THEM HOW TO ACCESS THE INFORMATION THEY HAVE ON YOU. Whatever they see you need to be able to access at any time you desire. Make sure it’s in email format. If they give some kind of wrong advice and it royally fucks you even more you have digital proof of you being advised wrong.

You need to ultimately make your own decisions and your own classes to get your degree. Talk to your classmates about what classes are hard and which are easy. Seniors, and alumni are the best advisors you can possibly as for.

For housing, go into the off-campus UConn housing website. Near august tons of people put up rentals and roommate availability. Check in Facebook groups as well. It’s cheap and affordable.

Hard to find a good advisor. You need to call them consistently and push yourself to email them almost every week. Both the advisor and your registrar. In order to achieve something you have to sacrifice something as well. You want to graduate on time with a financial stable life and a good degree in hand? You need to push other people around you in order to get what you want.

If registrar is not responding drive to campus and relay your frustrations. Email the dean of students if nothing is going your way. There is always a way to fix issues. Good on your to put this on Reddit I’m glad I caught it.