UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA Employer Reviews

Loved Sooner Sports Med
Cared for injured athletes
prepared for practice by taping, stretching, heat treatments
learned care and management of athletic injury
had wonderful certified athletic trainers to work under
had incredible fellow students and grad assistants
school full time and early mornings in the training room meant long days. No weekends/summers – more... off.
Best part was being associated with OU athletics – less

Each work listed has different routine to it. where,
- The food service work involved cleaning tables and serving customers food at the salad bar.
- The visitor information desk job revolved around providing visitors with information, and guidance where needed about the university's campus and the Student Union building in particular.
The Arabic tutor/teaching – more... assistant job included a class attendance, and homework help, both aimed at helping the students to make progress in their language skills. – less

this is a good place to work, the people in math department are so nice here~

Its a great place to work and develop more great skills and interact with a very diversified student population

I learned to hold my own writing and others' to higher standard of detail and quality. My boss was exacting and I appreciate the skills he imparted to me.

My job allowed me to get paid to learn and experience classes that I may have never otherwise had experienced. Knowing that I was helping somebody better themselves through education is incredibly rewarding.

As a student it was a great opportunity to interact and meet new people on campus. A day at work consists of mostly checking out and check in books for students and faculties, answer questions about the library and its resources. There was always a supervisor around to help with questions you cannot answer. I loved my boss and the fact that we were – more... allowed to study when the library is less busy. – less

I enjoy working at OU IT Law because it is not too difficult and allows me some time to study and work on project. I do also enjoy helping professors setup technology for their classes.

Every day sit behind my apple power mac, write algorithm on paper, write code on eclipse, and listening to my favorite music. It was the presentation day, all of the code was on my local python server, and I had to move the whole Django project to production server. No experience with running Django on Apache production server, and was so nervous if – more... we get errors and bugs, because of static files such as JavaScript and media files, which are addressed relatively on my local machine. Fortunately moved the whole project based on Apache instructions and some hints from Stackoverflow website, to the Apache server and moved all the static files to the static file server, and one hour before presentation website was up and running. – less

Great place to work. Learned alot being a Teacher's Assistant.

Great place for a student. I can get my homework done and work at the same time. Great opportunities for creativity and flexible schedule. I would work here permanently if I could! Hardest part of the job is having to sit behind a computer for 4+ hours a day. It can make you stir-crazy, but the great management staff and convenience with being a student – more... make it a perfect job! – less

on the computer 90% of the time; learned much about human resources compliance; good management; good co-workers
Hardest part of job - truly cannot think of anything
Most enjoyable - office parties

The opportunity to learn new things and advance. Management gave you the freedom to grow and listened.

University of Oklahoma allowed me to gain most of my medical assistant experience. Different cultures, different patients of every age and illness was seen my this program. I was very fortunate to have been with them for such a long time.

Graduate assistant: History of built Enviroment-1 for 80+ student class. Managed administrative tasks for the course including collecting and grading of weekly assignments.
Graduate research: provided project management to LEED certified building in Oklahoma City; provided site assessment , defined scope of project, planned and designed building following – more... local building by-laws and LEED standards; and final design and delivery of green office building. – less

Good research experience in a great school . Boomer SOONER!!

As a graduate teaching assisstant at Univeysity of Oklahoma,
I focus on answering question pertaining to Cal I-IV in help center and aasist in grading for Calculus, Linear Algebra, Ordinary Differential Equations courses.
The most important thing of this job is I can improve my communicate skills by answering student questions everyday, at the same – more... time, I help them understand the content, it makes me happy. – less

A typical day consisted of cleaning up after students and preparing the dorms for new students.

Very talented people to work with
Small, urban environment with lots of options beyond academic work
Reasonable benefits

OU provides TA's with a good overall experience. The most important thing it allows students to do is get genuinely good job experience while also maintaining a high GPA in class. It re-enforces TA's ability to multi-task and deliver a high quality work output while simultaneously delivering a high quality product to class.