Hi! My financial aid is still under review and I was curioys if anyone has recieved their pell grant yet? I'm full time and my sai is -1500 so idk what is going on. Hopefully I hear back soon but IDK. Thank you!

Thinking of leaving the newish medicine major for physiology. More of my friends are in physiology and my sister says it’s worth it. Any insight is appreciated

Hi! I'm a freshman this year at the U of AZ, and am just wondering how bad is biochemistry? Really? I have a lot of anxiety regarding it already and we're only in the second week of school, but everyone I talk to about my major choice just tells me how hard it is and how much I'll want to drop out—I was even told I'd want to "k—ll myself and should bc there's no way I'll finish that major".

Not exactly a grest start! 😅

Even worse start because I'm minoring in Neuroscience.

For some background, I also know my first year is already a LOT different than other freshman. In my last 2 years of highschool, I took Dual Enrollment courses which led me to enter with 28 college credits already, so, after December I'll be considered a Sophomore already, even if I'm not really.

I'd like to go to medical school and become an anesthesiologist, or a Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation(if anesthesia doesn't work) or a Family Medicine Physician(if the previous two fail).

My counselor told me I'm basically guaranteed to graduate in 3-3.5 years but I'm not too worried about that.

I'm mainly curious about how "bad" are the classes?

Should I give up now and switch majors?

The classes don't seem too bad yet but I'm really scared thanks to the fear mongering.

I recently paid my tuition with my credit card and I was charged a 4.5% fee by Nelnet (the platform UA uses to process payments.) The 4.5% fee is for international cards... but I have a U.S.-issued card.

Has this happened to anyone else? Why did this happen?

I'll contact Nelnet when their customer service opens again on Monday. This is so frustrating... Feels scammy.

Don’t you guys have classes the next day? Loll genuinely wondering what the reason is behind specifically thursday cuz it never made sense to me that it isn’t just friday + saturday nights. do the bars have special deals or something?

Hey Wildcats! The Esports Club's Mario Kart team is looking for new members to compete with us and represent UA in Mario Kart leagues versus other colleges!

We are currently recruiting for Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, but may also recruit for Mario Kart World in the future.

All students are welcome regardless of skill level or prior experience, as long as you would be motivated to practice and get better!

If you're interested in joining the team, join our Discord server: https://discord.gg/CeFMwXPhtk and DM jehanv or parsc.

Is anybody else finding it impossible to rely on the streetcar as transportation to and from the U of A? I've experienced and heard of impossibly long delays. It has affected my family if not every day, then most days this week and seems way worse than last year. Asking for them and for research purposes. Trying to figure out what's going on.

Can we switch advisors in the same major? I like my advisor but a friend really likes his advisor and talks about all of the things he gets when they meet.

Also, is it common for students to change majors because the advisors are better? I want to apply to HEAP too.

hey guys, im a freshman at U of A and i am looking for friends to sing musicals with like hamilton for example! or just to hang out with

also if anyone knows any friend groups or just hang out events pls lmk

Does anyone know if the VHL Homework for spanish 101 goes into the gradebook as completion or accuracy ? I’m assuming the vhl lesson tests do but i don’t know about the vhl homework.

My roommate and I are greatly upset by this whole situation and we can’t even eat a sandwich out of depression because there’s NO SANDWICH PLACE EITHER. Why do they hate us and want us to starve?

Hey guys so I am new at the UA at my job and then take the bus so I been struggling like crazy to find a good parking spot lately I been parking very very far away and I wanted to know if there’s somewhere I can park without a permit given that I don’t have one yet and I don’t know where or how to get one

hello, long story short i’m thinking about rushing frats here in the next few weeks. i really want to join im just concerned about hazing. i know u of a has been in the news a lot recently regarding that and a few chapters are on probation.

will i be able to join a chapter without getting hazed? i’m fine w drinking and such but i do want to go to bed at a reasonable time and dont want to do elephant walks or whatever crazy shit. i want to make friends and build a good network, i don’t want to be locked in a basement or something 😭

Does anyone know what that loud boom was a few minutes ago near the library? It sounded like a cannon went off. I called UAPD but they didn't know about it.

Was just down there at that Cat Card office in the Student Union building, and the women down there all told me that I couldn’t get a student ID there, as there would be “no more physical cards”, and that “they’ve phased them out in favor of digital”. Is this legit?

The U of A website and Cat Card info pages explicitly say otherwise. If that’s no longer true, then it absolutely should have been updated by this new semester start.

And it just irks me that they’re forcing students to go the “everything online” route with an ID. Certain businesses and events have student discounts, but will I have to pull up the U of A app every time I want to show a form of student ID?

Can someone help me out here and let me know if they’ve heard anything about this shift? It just seems inaccessible for students who don’t always have smart devices with them/even use them. I prefer to have physical copies of all my cards and IDs anyways, as it’s more convenient wherever I go.

Not sure if anyone else who uses the Orange CatTran will see this, but does anyone know what’s going on with the New Park & Ride lot? They didn’t renew the lease for Lots 9004 and 9007 and set up a new lot on Campbell but now they’re saying we can’t even park there till August 31st due to construction?

Do labs start the first week of school or do they start a week later?

Im a third year, I’m having to use federal aid now that my VA funding ran out. I just found out the aid i get this semester doesnt get applied to the left over tuition i have from last semester 😭 my mom is asking if i can just take summer classes. Do they have federal aid for summer? Im only enrolled in two classes this semester which means i would have to take like 3 classes in summer. Idk how things work. Do they only approve the amount of federal aid you would need for THAT semester?

Dorms closing, enrollment drop, acceptance rate higher. Archived article.

https://archive.is/3q2dM

I have a class there and can’t figure out where it’s at it just says bear down building.

Hi everyone! I’m a transfer student and I’m pretty new here. I’d really like to meet some new people and make friends, but I’m still trying to figure out the best ways to socialize on campus.
If anyone else is also looking for new friends, I’d be happy to chat and maybe hang out on campus sometime!
Also, are there any clubs, events, group chats, or other good ways to meet people at U of A? I’d really appreciate any recommendations. Thanks!

Is it possible to change your cat card photo? and if so, how? I have a digital one if that matters. mine is in need of change 😔 TIA

I'm faculty here, and I remember the planning process of the University's AI Roadmap during AY2025–2026. I've read the published version a few times now, and instead of just listing what I think is wrong with it, I want to hear from people actually affected by it, because the document itself doesn't say much about any of you specifically.

Some things I noticed, for context:

The roadmap is about 7,400 words. Searched it for "metric," "measure," "baseline," "return on investment," "FTE": zero hits on all of them. "Budget" appears twice, both times just naming the Finance & Budget office. No dollar figures requested, no positions committed, nothing measurable attached to any goal in the document.

Two of the university's own official pages currently contradict each other about our own AI tool: the AI Tools & Data Use Guide says U of A GenAI is approved for Restricted data; the tool's own product page says, verbatim, it "has not been approved for the use of 'Restricted Data.'" Both are live right now.

The cited infrastructure people actually use, AI Verde, was built by CyVerse and has been running since May 2024, a year before the AI office existed. The new roadmap lists it as a future Phase 4 deliverable for 2027-28.

So, genuinely:

Students: does anything in here address what you actually need from AI on campus, or does it read like it wasn't written with you in mind at all?

Staff: if you've had to figure out what AI tools you're allowed to use for your job, has anything about this been clear, or have you had to guess?

Faculty: did any of this reach you before it was finished, or is this the first you're seeing of it too?

Sources:

• AI Roadmap (published PDF): https://ritm102603-azs-artificial-intelligence.pantheonsite.io/sites/default/files/2026-08/AI-Roadmap-for-the-U-of-A_as-of-7.28.2026_Clean-Version_0.pdf
• AI Tools & Data Use Guide: https://responsibleai.arizona.edu/ai-tools-guide
• U of A GenAI page: https://responsibleai.arizona.edu/u-of-a-gen-ai
• AI-VERDE paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.09651
• Salary figures, if you're curious... (Arizona Luminaria public records database, FY2026): https://azluminaria.org/2025/11/21/university-of-arizona-searchable-salary-database-for-2023-2024/