Student review [#1047]
at Universidad Complutense de Madrid - UCM

It is a beautiful career that you have to study if you really like linguistics and literature. The UCM has many shortcomings, especially teachers, I will not lie. If you take the degree in this university, you should know that you will have the best information that exists but, that information, unfortunately, you will have to manage it yourself. The same members of the Royal Spanish Academy will give you classes, the best linguists in the country will show you everything they know but it will always be little and confusing. You will have to investigate and train yourself, in many aspects, at your own risk. This has its positive part and its negative part. Positive part because you can have before you those people you admire; Negative part because you will feel lost and frustrated in some occasions. In others, you will find teachers as wonderful as José María Lahoz, who will never regret studying Philology at the UCM. If you take the degree in this university, you will find more criticism than praise. However, when you finish, there will always remain in you an indelible memory, an unrecognizable melancholy and an ambiguous satisfaction. However, and despite the bad, I think you should live the experience of this career at the UCM. Above all, because you can be that person who makes the Complutense University of Madrid what it has always been. You can always be chosen to not let our historic university disappear. As an additional fact, I studied the degree in Spanish, Language and Literature (which I always called and will call Hispanic Philology) with the Ministry of Education scholarship without any problems (safeguarding the inevitable bureaucratic fatigue). I also want to say that the Philology library of the Complutense University of Madrid seemed very complete and unbeatable.