You don't know Lexington, and you don't know UK until you're here.
Something that's so special about UK is that we give students the opportunities
to really thrive. It's so exciting just to
be on campus and just be surrounded by all of the good vibes, the insane energy. I think
it's just my like home away from home. It's more than just like a college or an
institution. Like the people are so amazing. Your opportunities are literally endless.
I came here my freshman year from almost a thousand miles away,
and I just felt like I was in a small community and had so many people that I knew.
As soon as you step on campus, I really think you get to feel that small school interaction.
It's nice that our average class size is 25. But with UK,
I found that sense of community and that small school feel.
Everywhere that I walk on campus, I see a familiar face or people I've had class
with or people I've been in the dorms with. The community is one big wildcat family, literally.
Being downtown, it doesn't feel like you're downtown because once you step foot onto campus,
you can tell that the atmosphere is so different than anything else.
I know for some colleges it's kind of spread out, but UK is all in one area
and it just makes it so enjoyable just to go to class and be able to access all those
facilities and makes learning so easy. The residence halls are amazing. No other
residence halls on college campuses do you get a Tempur-Pedic mattress, your own room, your
bathroom that you share with one other person. You know, a lot of the stuff you kind of see
every day when you’re driving through campus, you take for granted. There's a lot of really
good facilities here, some great people. When you take a step back and look at it,
compared to other schools especially, it really is pretty unique and pretty special stuff.
We have amazing professors all across campus and all different backgrounds, and they push
students so hard to reach that potential that they know is achievable because they did it.
The reason that the faculty is so important is because at the end of the day, you're here to
get your degree. So, them being there and being supportive and having experience and like maybe
doing research all the time, that can only lead to more opportunities for yourself.
Each like staff member and like each student, you kind of gain a personal connection with them.
Like the connections I've gained with my professors has been awesome. It's really
helped me get through classes. You can really tell that they care for you and want you to succeed.
There are people I know I can go to with pretty much any problem, and they’ll help
me sort through it. So being able to know you have people here that care about you truly
is a really, really special thing.
Getting involved is probably one of the easiest things that you can do here on UK’s campus.
Whether you want to get involved like majorly specific or intramural sports,
there are just endless, endless things. There's football games, basketball games,
going to Keeneland, going to concerts, Campus Ruckus, K Week...
When you're at Rupp Arena in the eruption zone and they roll the tarp out,
I don't I don't think there's a better feeling as far as being a part of something like you
feel like you're a part of something so much bigger... It is amazing. I love it.
Coming to UK was absolutely the right choice. And it's really just an amazing place to
start your life as an adult and find a place that makes you feel at home.
It's just the best experience in the world. Like it's not even just the place. It's the people.
It's everyone you meet. Everything you go through, everything you encounter.
I think it's just the best place ever. This campus has exceeded my expectations. The
people that I've met, the friends that I've made. And I think at UK, that's something that we shoot
for, that wildly possible. We're really trying to make your dreams come true every single day.