Colorado State University-Fort Collins Top Questions

The worst thing about my school is the bike cops.

The worst thing about Colorado State University, is there are far too many options. When wanting to choose electives one could spend hours on end looking for things that look and sound interesting. This can cause frustration and anxiety but in the end the University is full of great classes so you know you'll be okay with one of the dozens of options there are to offer.

Every school has their ups and downs. I'm thankful in getting the chance in returning back to school after a seven year absence.

The biggest problem I encounted was with getting certain questions answered. Often, when I would go to an office to ask a person for help, or a some university related question I was sent to three different offices before getting to someone who knew the answer. Most of the office and secretarial staff are friendly, but students often get tossed around while searching for an answer.

The worst thing about my school is the sports that they offer, they should offer more varsity sports other than just football and basketball. This school offers twice as many girl sorts as male sportsc.

High amount of spending on buildings to promote enrollment, but very little funding being spent on academic improvement.

Cliques don't really dissapear at this college. Don't get me wrong, people are friendly, but don't venture far into the unknown. Maturity is also an issue. Many students enrolled here are pretty young. As a non-trditional student, it is hard to find peers with similar interests. MOST of the professors are not concerned with you as an individual. They will certainly not go out of their way to help, they tell you to find help elsewhere. Every once in a while you find a professor who is here for the right reasons.

We have a lack of minorities, as our school is mostly middle class white students. We could develop more as students and as a school with a more culturally diverse campus. Having more cultures and more people from minorities around us would change our perspective on the world. Also, it might mean more non-white students in the Education program, which I think is something we REALLY need.

The trees that were planted at Colorado State and the flowers and such used to decorate are non-native to the region. I happen to think that ever greens, aspens, brush, etc. are much more economically sound, not to mention nicer to look at, than East coast trees and flowers that have to be cared for far more diligently than the native flora. And I think it says a great deal that this is my biggest complaint.

I hate how people at our school makes it seem okay to smoke weed.

The lack of knowledge that a Performing Arts major exists. CSU is so Agricultural and Science-focused, the more liberal degrees get overlooked or are less important.

While there are a lot of great resources available at my university, it is sometimes necessary to return multiple times before receiving help. It is a combination of finding the right person to ask and phrasing the question in the correct way to get help that help. I feel like it should not always have to be a work game in order to reach different resources.

The expectations. They expect you to be literally perfect, but that's humanly impossible and only stresses students out.

The worst thing is that there is a large chunk of campus that does not have emergency call buttons. This part of campus is through the intramural fields where a large chunk of students who live on campus walk during the day and night. We have call buttons in the main plaza, but it seems as though we are lacking in an area that seems quite crucial. In order for everyone's safety to be as secure as possible we need to make the efforts and find the funding to place several more call buttons throughout the intramural fields.

The worst, and most difficult thing about school is the fact that no one holds your hand. Your mother doesn't come and wake you up in the morning and tell you to get dressed. There is no one to yell at you when you want to play sick and ditch classes. You are responsible for you, no one else is. It is very difficult to stay motivated when someone isn't there constantly encouraging you.

I think that the worst thing about my school would be the online format for participating classes and grades. Some classes even use their own cite so there isn't a central format for each class. Everyone is different. Sometimes you even have to discuss in class and online and I believe that it really repetitive. I think that having one sight to see all the classes would be a great improvement. Also, guidelines for whether the classes are all online or in the classroom.

Some of the dorms are far from the classrooms which makes for a very long, cold walk in the winter.

The worst thing about Colorado State that I feel is that we promote that we are a "green university" but there are many times that I notice we really aren't that "green." For example over Thanksgiving break one of our buildings had the heat and lights on the entire time but it was closed. I wish that we lived up to the "green" status that our school has.

How the departments are seemingly not connected. It seems that each department keeps to its own and therefore has no knowledge of other departments. For example, my art advisor knows very little about other academic departments or opportunities other than art, so when I went to ask her about minoring in another academic department (Japanese), she merely told me to go to the foreign language department for that inquiry. I believe that an advisor should know at least the basics of other departments...

I'd say there are only two problematic things on campus: parking and preachers. Our campus is installing buildings while trying to remain small and accesible. So parking lots are ripped out to become new building sites, a trend encouraged by the 'green campus' image that endorses low car use. All well and good, save for students who live far from campus. Bieng one of them, I'm annoyed. And the preachers. We are a fairly liberal school, but occasionally a preacher shows up to rant and stays for hours. Their raving, if anything, turns students away from their faith.