school in hawaii
- Posted by
Chris
(from 4.7.212.131
) on April 16, 2005 at 18:37:53
Hi, I plan on possibly attending
the University of Hawaii at Hilo campus in the fall of
2005. While looking around at many of the different
sites about the big island I noticed that many sites
displayed Hilo to be very clowdy with a lot rain. I
was wondering if you knew how significant the rain
conditions are in Hilo. Does it rain everyday, or
almost everyday? Because I really would not enjoy
going to a school where the forecast is always rain.
If you could get back to me as soon as possible it
would be great, thanks.
re: school in hawaii
- Posted by
Lisa
(from 4.7.212.131
) on April 16, 2005 at 18:39:21
I\'m a student at UHH. It\'s simply beautiful most of the time. It does rain a lot in Hilo, but at least 50 percent of that comes down at night, and even when it does rain during the day it\'s usually not all day every day. We\'re in the rainy season right now and the last two weeks have been nothing but gorgeous sunshine. True, sometimes you can get a week or two of cloudy, rainy days, but that\'s rare.
re: school in Hawaii
- Posted by
Lisa
(from 4.7.212.131
) on April 16, 2005 at 18:40:57
This is Chris again emailing you because i had no idea that you went to school at UHH. If don\'t mind i would like to ask you some questions about the school. My first question is how is the student life? What do most of the students spend there time doing when not doing HW or going to class? How studious are the students that attend? What is your major? Please get back to me whenever you have time, and by the way it was great hearing back from you with the information about the weather, thank you.
re: school in Hawaii
- Posted by
Lisa
(from 4.7.212.131
) on April 16, 2005 at 18:42:48
I\'m actually probably not going to be much help to you. I am a non-traditional student - I\'m 32, I have a two-year old, a husband, a mortgage, and a home-business. I don\'t hang out with other students so I really don\'t know that much about that stuff. To top it off, I am a computer science major, so the students I do talk to are all computer geeks who play video games in their spare time. I have heard some of the math majors talk about surfing and fishing - there is a lot of that on this island, but on the Hilo side, you really have to rough it to do either (the surfing spots are rocky and dangerous, the fishing spots are remote). There\'s a few bars that try to be clubs that people go to, and there is one bowling alley, but not much more than that. A drive to Kona (2 hours) brings better beaches and a little more of a nightlife.
- Posted by
Lisa
(from 4.7.212.131
) on April 16, 2005 at 18:45:13
Hi Lisa, this is Chris emailing you again about going to school at UHH. I live in Chicago and plan on moving out there in august if I do decide to attend the school. This is the dilema though, because I am not sure what school to go to if I do get in. I have applied to UHH and UH at manoa. I would really like to be able to take a flight out there to visit the campuses, but the air fair is phenomenal, and will only have the money to fly out once (to move in). I am just trying to find out as much information as possible to make a good and well studied decision sinse i will be going out there pretty much blind. How well kept is the campus at UHH? What are the profs. like? How easy is it to get around the island to visit? What are the prices of food? ALso, why is it that Hilo is not more popular of a campus with the tuition being so low, and the \"private school atmosphere\", compared to Manoa? Are there any problems or anything that I should made aware of that you see on campus or on the island in general? Thank you so much for emailing me back in the past it has helped me out so much, thank you.
- Posted by
Lisa
(from 4.7.212.131
) on April 16, 2005 at 19:08:55
The campus at UH is a gorgeous, spread-out campus that is very well kept. My professors are pretty typical - some are really good, some are mediocre. If you have a car you can get just about anywhere on the island, but it will take over two hours to get to Kona from Hilo. If you don\'t have a car, well there is one bus that goes in a circle once a day around the island but I don\'t know anything about it. I think mostly seniors use it. Food is very expensive, as is gas. Gas is $2.40 a gallon. Milk is $4 a gallon at walmart and $6 a gallon at the supermarket. Hilo is a small, rainy town on an island with nothing to do but go fishing and go to the beach. Manoa is near Waikiki. FYI, the regents are tring to raise the tuition everywhere in Hawaii. There are public meetings being called right now - if they have thir way it will just about double in the next 4 years. Lisa