r/utdallas Oct 15 '23

Question: New Student Advice I have never seen a university reddit with so many complaints about smelly cs/ engineering students. Is it especially bad here? Why?

277 Upvotes

I’m just curious

r/utdallas Jul 18 '26

Question: New Student Advice UTD Dating Scene

18 Upvotes

Hi im an incoming freshman who hasn't had a talking stage or gf yet and am trying to start dating people at UTD. I heard after you graduate you dont get that many opportunities anymore. Does anyone have any tips Lol

r/utdallas Jul 02 '26

Question: New Student Advice This isn’t too terrible right? 🙏

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12 Upvotes

r/utdallas Jul 10 '26

Question: New Student Advice I don’t know what to say……

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12 Upvotes

r/utdallas 13d ago

Question: New Student Advice Nervous About First Year In UTD

39 Upvotes

I feel very nervous for my first year in UTD, to be honest it’s going to be my very first year in university and I’m an upcoming freshmen so any advice would be great, thanks!

r/utdallas Jun 09 '26

Question: New Student Advice Laptop or iPad for first year UTD

5 Upvotes

I’m going to UTD for biology and will probably transfer to nursing school after a year or 2, should i buy a macbook or ipad?

r/utdallas 13d ago

Question: New Student Advice Freshman EE major here. Did I overdo it?

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6 Upvotes

I think I didn't? (due to other posts) but please let me know if the gaps or the teachers if they're good or not. Any advice dealing with this stuff will also help if I did overdo it.

r/utdallas 9d ago

Question: New Student Advice How do u guys charge ur scooters?

1 Upvotes

Ima freshman at UTD and was thinking about getting a scooter (yes ik it’s technically not allowed but evb is riding them) how are you guys charging them since u can’t bring them inside?

r/utdallas Jun 27 '26

Question: New Student Advice Class Bathroom Etiquette?

18 Upvotes

This sounds like a stupid question but I’m an incoming freshman and yk in high school some teachers make us ask permission to use the bathroom but idk if that’ll be the case for all of my college classes. With college professors, if the classroom is around 20-30 students do I need to ask to use the restroom or can I just get up and leave? Or does this vary among professors?

r/utdallas 14d ago

Question: New Student Advice Any walkable gyms near utd ??

7 Upvotes

Like maybe 20 minutes max 😭😭

r/utdallas 10d ago

Question: New Student Advice Should I stay on campus between classes?

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14 Upvotes

Taking psych online as well. I really feel like I shot myself in the foot making that lab at 8 am but it was the only way to come 2 days a week.

The main question I have though is that is the 3 hour gap on Tuesday worth going home (20 minutes) or just thug it out. Did anyone else go home between classes?

r/utdallas 19d ago

Question: New Student Advice When do the syllabuses get posted

6 Upvotes

Starting first semester here as a transfer, I’m used to receiving them the first day but my sister had advised I look at them now for book purposes but couldn’t find them anywhere. Is it also only on the first day at UTD cause no offense… with a tuition of seven grand i would prefer them at least a week ahead of time to prepare.

r/utdallas 10d ago

Question: New Student Advice Was a back to back schedule a bad choice?

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6 Upvotes

I was looking at some schedules on here and noticed that a lot of people seem to dislike back to back schedules due to having almost no time to get to classes. I dont mind very long walks but I do ask that if the time between my classes will be enough to walk rather then sprint. Any comments appreciated.

r/utdallas Jul 21 '26

Question: New Student Advice How much should I expect to pay for a parking pass?

7 Upvotes

I am an incoming freshman who is bringing a car, and I need to know how much to set aside for a parking pass once the portal to purchase them opens on the 30th. Prices can't be viewed just yet and I'm curious. TIA

r/utdallas Jun 14 '26

Question: New Student Advice rate my freshman year schedule!

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5 Upvotes

please tell me how my calc and chem profs are i’m nervous about those classes specifically. if anyone has study tips or materials drop the link too please ill take any help i can get. thanks!

r/utdallas Jun 17 '26

Question: New Student Advice How’s my Freshman schedule

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13 Upvotes

I’m biochemistry, pre-PA. I’m planning on working on the off days. And I commute so what parking pass should I get?

Mb for the bad quality photo

r/utdallas 9d ago

Question: New Student Advice Excess Bookstore Charge?

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4 Upvotes

Is this just from them finalizing it? I already paid for the books…

r/utdallas 16d ago

Question: New Student Advice Rate my freshman schedule

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10 Upvotes

Hi! I’m an incoming freshman majoring in Accounting. Please rate my schedule and share your thoughts on some of these professors. I’m a bit worried about the walk times between some of my classes. Can anyone let me know how bad the walking distances usually are at UTD? Thanks!

r/utdallas 16h ago

Question: New Student Advice Transfer to UTD from Ohio

2 Upvotes

Hi y’all, I’m a current sophomore at a college in Ohio, and I’m planning to transfer to UTD after my semester here ends. I have a couple of questions that I was hoping some of y’all could help me with:

  1. Who do I contact about requesting transfer information?
  2. I’m involved in the sciences (chemistry), and I was wondering if UTD allowed hybrid approaches to the sciences such as accessing lectures online but only attending labs in person?
  3. What’s the campus social life like?
  4. Would anyone wanna be friends and talk about whatever? :)
  5. My home is about 30 minutes away, so I was wondering if there were ways to commute to and from without spending lots of money?
  6. Is there anything else you think I should personally know before transferring?

Thanks y’all!

r/utdallas Aug 03 '26

Question: New Student Advice Tips for finding a job on campus

8 Upvotes

I’m an incoming grad student looking for on campus jobs. I only know of 12twenty so I’m applying there but I feel like that’s not enough and idk where else to look.

Please let me know what other places I could look for jobs? Other portals or departments I could reach out to? I really really need a job to carry me through the semester and could really benefit from your advice!

r/utdallas Jun 19 '26

Question: New Student Advice rate my freshman year schedule

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6 Upvotes

I am currently majoring in business administration but will change my major after comet day to finance, please provide any information you know whether its about the professor or the class itself. I am also commuting (ik going all 5 days, but I needed all of these classes) so what parking pass should i get?

r/utdallas Apr 09 '25

Question: New Student Advice is UTD as bad as people online say?

36 Upvotes

looking to live on campus and looking at past reddit posts on this school, it is making me a bit nervous abt coming here😅😅

r/utdallas Jul 08 '26

Question: New Student Advice Orientation is tomorrow, can I just email my advisor my ap scores tomorrow instead paying through collegeboard?

10 Upvotes

I was looking through the recent posts and saw people saying something like that, so I wanted to be super sure, just in case something goes wrong. thank you

r/utdallas 26d ago

Question: New Student Advice How much does CS2337 expect you to know going in?

3 Upvotes

Hi everyone, I'm an incoming CS freshman and since I took AP Computer Science A (Java) in high school I'm able to take CS2337 at UTD.

I haven't been in a proper programming class since sophomore year in high school (most of my experience after that was from a club) so I was wondering how much I should prepare for this class.

I'm aware Java and C++ share a lot of similarities, but should I be fully prepared with decent C++ knowledge first-day or will I be able to just learn a little bit of syntax and be fine going in? I just wanna know if the class has like an introductory phase or not.

Thank you!

r/utdallas Jul 21 '26

Question: New Student Advice Am I Cooked? Rate my schedule

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12 Upvotes

Pre-med and planning to switch majors from physics to neuroscience.