| 1 | Aug 20, 2009 5:20 AM | survey too long |
| 2 | Aug 20, 2009 5:23 AM | Drop requirement of outside faculty in qualifying exam (hard to find and technically not very useful) |
| 3 | Aug 20, 2009 5:26 AM | Thank you for all of the EE/CSGSA works, especially Zach. |
| 4 | Aug 20, 2009 5:31 AM | My advisor is awesome so please don't think I don't like him! It's just that I had some differences with him about how he allocated my time over the past year. Otherwise I think he takes great care of me. |
| 5 | Aug 20, 2009 5:33 AM | Thanks for the survey - it's helpful to be able to express some of my concerns. |
| 6 | Aug 20, 2009 6:24 AM | I wish the department cared about students. As it is, it feels like they (faculty and staff) have contempt for the students. For example, the EEGSA lounge was taken away without a fair replacement. Some staff do not work their hours; they come late, leave early, and do not show up on many days like Friday. This behavior was prior to any furloughs. My advisor provides support with navigating the department, and I am very grateful for this. |
| 7 | Aug 20, 2009 1:04 PM | One thing that is very hard for me is health insurance - I have a family, and having to buy health insurance for them on the open market is awful. Government programs are ridiculously unhelpful. I understand health insurance is expensive, but being able to enroll my family in some employer sponsored plan, even if it meant paying for it, would be better than what I have now. |
| 8 | Aug 20, 2009 4:00 PM | Cory Hall is kept WAY too hot in the winter--this is California, where most people have little heat in their homes. It is very uncomfortable in the winter, because if you dress appropriately for all the other (cooler) buildings around, then you end up having to take off and put on layers every time you enter and leave Cory. In addition, the excess heat wastes a lot of energy. It is completely unnecessary.
In addition, cell phone service is terrible in Cory (at least for AT+T, in the second floor mezzanine). Cell phone repeaters need to be installed otherwise it is impossible to make and receive calls in the building. |
| 9 | Aug 20, 2009 4:07 PM | Some questions should perhaps have a N/A option that are currently lacking one. Some of those have an 'Other' option, but I feel like that field is intended for responses other than 'none' or 'N/A'. |
| 10 | Aug 20, 2009 5:40 PM | please just let me graduate. |
| 11 | Aug 20, 2009 8:21 PM | Better support for ergonomic workstations. My desk doesn't raise/lower, and my chair doesn't go high enough for how tall I am but there's nothing I can do about it. |
| 12 | Aug 20, 2009 10:30 PM | (AI) prelims are a pain, huge differences between professors make it hard to prepare. passing rate gaps between different areas make it quite an unfair game ... |
| 13 | Aug 25, 2009 9:16 PM | What an excellent survey, the people who wrote it should get some sort of award. |
| 14 | Aug 25, 2009 9:46 PM | Many students here are unhappy and in light of the recent suicide this is something that should be discussed amongst the faculty. |
| 15 | Aug 25, 2009 9:49 PM | Most of my problems are independent of the department, and are handled well enough by school-wide resources (e.g. access to counseling over stress). The administration of the department is exceptionally helpful, although I did manage to fall (irrevocably) through some bureaucratic cracks this summer. Fortunately, there seems to be enough flexibility that they found other ways of helping me. I am very impressed with our admin staff in general. |
| 16 | Aug 25, 2009 9:52 PM | I think we should encourage graduate students to teach (not GSI but teach) 100 level courses to take the burden off the profs and enable more 200 level courses to be offered. |
| 17 | Aug 25, 2009 11:02 PM | This survey claims to be anonymous, which is clearly important for eliciting honest answers.
However, asking both "year in program" and "undergraduate institution" obviously uniquely determines nearly everyone taking the survey. The only apparent solution is to split up the responses by question and aggregate the answers before anyone reads the results.
Is this how the survey is already conducted? If so, that should be clearly explained at the beginning.
If not, there's nothing "anonymous" about it. It's pretty obvious that if, say, your advisor read all your answers collected together, they would immediately know who you are, even if they weren't trying to figure it out.
As it is, I don't think you can expect people to be very candid in their responses =/ |
| 18 | Aug 25, 2009 11:40 PM | I would like if there were programs that would help us make friends outside our own department. |
| 19 | Aug 26, 2009 5:10 AM | On seating/office. I used to use my office more before I got crammed into a crappy office because of ParLab. Fricking A. |
| 20 | Aug 26, 2009 5:39 AM | No thanks! |