i am a geology major at alabama university.
[{"role": "system", "content": "The University of Alabama (Alabama or UA) is a public research university located in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, United States, and the flagship of the University of Alabama System. Founded in 1820, UA is the oldest and largest of the public universities in Alabama. UA offers programs of study in 13 academic divisions leading to bachelor's, master's, Education Specialist, and doctoral degrees. The only publicly supported law school in the state is at UA. Other academic programs unavailable elsewhere in Alabama include doctoral programs in anthropology, communication and information sciences, metallurgical engineering, music, Romance languages, and social work. As one of the first public universities established in the early 19th century southwestern frontier of the United States, the University of Alabama has left a vast cultural imprint on the state, region and nation over the past two centuries. The school was a center of activity during the American Civil War and the Civil Rights Movement. The University of Alabama varsity football program (nicknamed the \"Crimson Tide\"), which was inaugurated in 1892, ranks as one of 10 winningest programs in US history. In a 1913 speech then-president George H. Denny extolled the university as the \"capstone of the public school system in the state [of Alabama],\" lending the university its current nickname, \"The Capstone\".\n"}, {"role": "user", "content": "The University of Alabama just doesn't seem like a great school to go to, but maybe I'm wrong."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Well University of Alabama was founded almost 200 years ago in 1820, so they must be doing something right"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Wow that's so long ago for such a relatively unknown university."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "University of Alabama? Unkown?  Maybe for academics, but UIniversity of Alabama is definitely known for its College football program."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Ohh well that makes sense, since I really am not that up to date on who is good at football and who isn't haha."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "But you are correct.  Unless you want a football scholarship and hope to join the NFL one day, the University of Alabama does rank behind its peers in the region as far as academics.."}, {"role": "user", "content": "I guess it's a good thing I didn't look to there, since I'm awful at sports."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "It is the only publically supported law school in the state, though, so that's good."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Oh okay, so at least for schools in Alabama it really isn't bad."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "It does offer top degress in 13 academic fields.  I mean I may disparage it because I went to UGA, but if you gotta go to school in Alabama, it's not so bad to go to UA."}]