I received many calls from UofA asking for money. Most memorable one being: UofA got you where you…read moreare, pay your due. To dwell on the statement, I can't think of more than 6 classes that I have found useful in my degree. The amount of useless yet time demanding classes at UofA consumed most of my 4 years here. I never realized how much time did I waste here until I started working and taking classes from other colleges. I took a class at Stanford and it benefited my career more than my entire UofA degree. I agree with Marco K, many UofA employees get jobs here from family connection. I observed a professor had his wife started teaching in the same department after she took 2 intro classes.

Reasons to attend: 1) you really don't want to go to school anymore, but your parents insist, so…read morethis one is close and easy to get into, 2) you grew up in the Alberta Province and the idea of living anywhere else - even for a few years - scares you to death, or 3) you think that you'll get a good job here when the world figures out that fossils fuels really are the future. If none of these reasons apply, get away from this place as fast as you can. Over the past decade and a half, since I attended, it has gone from a ranking of 79th place to 135th place - for good reason, except that even 135th seems high. If you waste four or more years here, you will find that the degree is worthless; out in the world beyond this provincial place, no one knows or cares about this campus because hardly anyone on it has done anything to get the attention of the world's artists and academics. Instead of accomplishments, the administration just makes up stuff. When I started there in 2006, everyone on campus insisted that U of A scientists had come up with a cure for the common cold. By 15 November 2015, Carly Weeks, Health Reporter at The Globe and Mail, published an exposé in the paper pointing out the complete ineffectiveness of this so-called cure. People on campus denied it, hurling out early iterations of "fake news," and then - when they realized that no one bought their lies - gave it up and just ignored the whole scandal. The lying and hypocrisy goes on in many (although not all) departments. English and Film Studies in the hilariously named "Humanities Building" is definitely worth a miss. Most of the profs there attended the U of A or got married to someone in the department. When they realize that they cannot deliver as scholars or teachers, they go to work in the dean's office. It's amazing how many "vice" deans a faculty can maintain! When asked to return to work, because some of the students there actually want to learn, they find ingenious excuses: "compassionate" leave (how many actual workers would like to have that, administrative posts at other campuses, cushy spots in the provincial government, or just plain old medical malingering. Really, if you have to stay in mom's basement, you could just go to one of the smaller colleges (even though they inanely call them "universities"), which are not better but at least they are cheaper and there's a chance that one of the profs will actually learn your name.

Terrible staff Dwain is only in terested in me because I am…read morea woman. They talk to you like your dumb. between looking at you like meat. I caught him looking down my shirt while I was driving. He points to look somewhere away to trick you. In the classroom he is no better. Women should stay away from here!

I graduated from the motorcycle class in 2015. The training here is excellent and will provide you…read morewith confidence to ride safely - even if you've never been on a motorcycle before. The course is 2 full days of riding and it includes a lesson riding on city streets. They have helmets, jackets and gloves you can use in the course, which makes a huge difference in the price. You can also use their motorcycles for your exam. I recommend this course to everyone who plans to drive a motorcycle on the street, regardless of prior exprience.