University of Alaska Fairbanks

UAF on Unilocal!I love it. It’s a great place for tenure. Or ten years. Highly recommended! It’s a little chilly though, at least most of the time.

Ahh, this review is solely for the University Bookstore. We made a quick trip up to Fairbanks from Denali National Park to hit up a major supermarket for their Western Union. I wasn’t going to drive all the way to Fairbanks and back to Denali just for a Western Union. I needed to make the gas guzzling trip worth it so I did a quick search for University of Alaska Fairbanks and decided to check out the bookstore. I love books and thought I might be able to pick up some souvenirs here as well.
Luckily, I was right! The abundance of items in this bookstore was definitely surprising! There were t-​shirts, sweatshirts, notebooks, coffee cups, pint glasses, mittens, scarves, hats, yoga mats… pretty much anything you could ever need AND there was a huge sale going on, making a college bookstore affordable for once! I got two t-​shirts and a sweatshirt for myself, a t-​shirt for my mom, a t-​shirt for my cousin, and a pint glass and it was under $ 100. They had North Face gloves and scarves discounted at least 40%, too. It was tempting to resist buying more but I did have to consider it was June and I had limited space in my backpack… I wish I could have bought more though!
The University as a whole was easy to find, well-​maintained, and the bookstore signage was prominent. Parking was easy although it should be noted it was June and I’m assuming a lot of students returned home for summer. Driving around the campus heading back down towards Denali was a real treat… We don’t have rock climbing walls, animals, etc. on college campuses in Western New York! I hope to return to Fairbanks someday and I’ll definitely stop at the University while I’m in the area!

Pretty cool little campus, but nothing particularly stand out about it. I was hoping to check out the Museum of the North, but that didn’t happen. I did get the chance to see some buildings and classrooms (wild eh?) which were pretty standard and felt like they were built in the late 70s or mid 80s. There is a nice view of the mountains from the campus… so there is that. Most interesting thing was seeing the co-​eds sunbathing in April… it was about 54 F out.

Visited the University campus during a recent vacation in Fairbanks, mostly to check out the Museum of the North. While we were there, though, thought it would be nice to explore a bit.
We wound up having lunch at the food court in the central commons building– which was pretty dead on a Saturday afternoon. Most of the shops in the food court were closed, but there the burger joint was open and their two-​person team was also staffing the adjacent coffee stand. The food here was at the low end of «blah», but that’s just about exactly what we were expecting. At least it was relatively cheap.
The commons building was pretty neat; reminded me of a big ski lodge.

UAF is a great college especially for alaska. It has been my goal to attend it since my freshman year of high school, and now I’m a freshman at college at UAF. People always ask me why I «settle» for UAF as my college and why I didn’t apply anywhere else. I tell them that it has is amazing if you want to study sciences, the tuition is great because I’m an alaskan resident, and its a billion times better than UAA.
I very much enjoy the layout of the university’s campus as well. I am a resident of Moore Hall and all of my classes are extremely accessible from my dorm. The dorm is self is kinda so-​so, but its old so whatever. I am extremely satisfied with my living quarters, of course its small, but I didn’t expect otherwise, its a freshman dorm. I did not expect to be living in a palace.
The classes and teachers are amazing as well. I don’t have a single class that I am taking where I do not like my teacher or how the class is taught. They are all difficult enough to keep me intrigued, but aren’t too difficult for me to just say F*** it and give up.
The main complaint I get from people is that it is too cold in fairbanks. My response to those people is to buy a warm jacket and quit their bitching. Pardon my vulgarity. Of course it’s cold, its Alaska. If you want to be warm go somewhere else. My only complaint is that the hill down to the commons gets extremely icy so its difficult to walk down. But I plan on buying a sled soon, so my complaint will be obsolete.
The food at the Tilly (the commons), is… well dorm food. So I don’t expect much from it. Though occasionally, there is pretty decent food. A few times they have had roast beef which they carve, and my favorite dish was the pasta that they made a few weeks back. But hands down, UNLIMITED SOFT SERVE ICE CREAM FTW! (when the machine works). I very much enjoy ordering the «420» which is a quesadilla, with a double bacon cheese burger, chicken pieces, grilled onions, and pretty much what ever else you want in it. You can order it at the grill. It’s pretty freaking delicious. but you have to be hungry. I recommend when there is mac and cheese, to open it up and put some mac and cheese in it. I also once put gravy on it, MIND BLOWN! it was delicious, I’m pretty sure I ate two of them. Which is a lot because they are quite big.
Overall I am a fan of UAF, it is a great college and I’m getting a lot out of it, and I hope to leave fully educated in which ever field I chose to be in, which at the moment is geology, which is very interesting and especially being in Alaska where the Geology is ridiculous, it is a great major to look into.

Took a few classes on campus. My Sweetie rec’d Teaching Certificate. Awesome University! Chased Northern lights up on top of campus in 2001 with Sweetie.

UAF has much to offer all year round. They have a Gym, post office, theater, nice trails for skiing or walking, even frisbee golf. The Pub is a must for drinks and live performances. The Woods center has a variety of food to choose from. Radio broadcasts on campus-KUAC=I love Public Radio!

Been I been to this university for only the summer and I have to admit it is pretty nice. The only thing the university can not help is the mosquitoes and they bit my head like crazy. Anyways I was here over an internship during the summer. The campus is smaller, but spacious, but it overlooks a hill. If you go through a bike trail, you there is a pound you can go fishing, but unfortunately I went the whole week and did not catch jack down there. Hmm they have a nice gym for the students and it was nice. The only problem is they have a weird policy about shoes, you must take them off before entering the gym even if you are warming some. But the staff was pretty rude I thought.
Anyways besides that there is no tax which was nice and every Wednesday was $ 1 ice cream which was cool. Anyways the food wise goes just depends on where you go. I ended up going to this café in the science building and getting their special which is a sandwich or spaghetti which was nice.
The campus does have a museum which I was able to visit one time. I really liked it and go to see the behind the scenes part. But yeah I am usually not into museums much. Anyways hmm oh yes I did live in the dorm rooms, the huge one out in front. I thought it was not too bad. I wish I had more of my privacy however because I had a roommate. The kitchen was pretty dirty and well you had to clean the dishes in order to use them to cook. The residents were friendly though, I made some friends though them.
I worked in the ARSC building which was cool, even though it was a ½ mile trek there, I had fun. Sometimes when I was lazy, I took the shuttle =) but I figured it was quicker walking. Taking the bus was not too bad, but we had bikes so we just biked it to Fred Meyer. They did have a Sam’s club, so I took the bus with my luggage and stocked up.