Colorado State University-Fort Collins Top Questions

CSU as a whole is a home. Classes are not too big or small. The professors and staff really make the campus "home like" by being there no matter what you need. People normally tell me that CU is a better school, but in fact I feel like CSU is a great place to succeed. Its warm atmosphere allows students to express themselves without the pressure to be the best, they expext us to be ourselves.

I think CSU is a perfect size. It is a large institution but the campus itself funnels alot of traffic to the center of campus. Next to the Clark wall or at the Student Center you are bound to see someone you know or have had some random encounter with at some party or coffee shop. It makes it feel smaller than it really is. Also, the students at CSU are a great bunch to be around. Everyone is very friendly and it is actually difficult not to find that niche campus org. or group of friends that makes you feel like you belong. The town of Fort Collins is the best town I have ever been in. No lie. I miss it terribly. There is a portion of that city that feels all your own. Its ram students everywhere, not many outsiders, and the food is fantastic. I cant even find a decent pizza in Denver that compares to the dozens in Fort Collins. Everytime I order pizza, chinese, or a sandwiche in Denver I almost cry. There is a small problem with Ram Pride I think. The football team "generally" comes across as a pretty mediocre batch of recruits with the few talented players peppered in. Me and generally everyone I know went to the football games to get absolutely rowdy at the tailgate and go home once we were down by 2 touchdowns. Generally around half so it works out.

I love the city of Fort Collins, it is a lot of fun and has a pretty good bar scene. I wish CSU had a better football program, it is pretty embarrassing that they suck so much. I like that CSU is pretty liberal, but not a hippy school like CU.

Best thing: The basketball and football teams (something to laugh about) Thing I'd change: The basketball and football teams records Size: About right i guess. Reaction upon learning i go to CSU: "Oh thats in Boulder right?" Most time spent: Classrooms College town for sure... I love Fort Collins Administration: Embarrasing (they dont know how to spend money) Recent Controversy: The printing of "Fuck Bush" in the school paper. Priceless! School pride: Whats that? Unusual: The school always is complaing about how its dead broke and is going to have to hike up tuition, but there is always some type of elaborate construction project happening. Experience to remember: Experiencing my roomate in the dorms lose his virginity in the bunk above me... Here's to you Vagonnor! Most frequent complaints: That our sports teams are horrible... and they are (and by sports teams i mean the ones that people actually go to watch: Football and Basketball). I mean lets face it, track and diving im sure is fufilling, but unless extra credit towards a class is awarded im gonna have to go ahead and pass on that grass.

of the too many to list here best things about csu, the three that stand out most in my mind as a young professional living the dream in new york city are the atmosphere on campus, the town of fort collins itself, and the wide variety of opportunities that come with being a csu ram. campus was amazing. the atmosphere on campus was very conductive to learning, to thinking and pushing the boundries and limits of your cognative abilities. outside of entry level lecture courses (example: sociology 100), class size was never really an issue. all worthwhile studying was done at the library with zero interruptions. and the chicks were totally smokin hot. fort collins is definately a college town. old town is awesome, always something going on. events such as the taste of fort collins and brewfest brought out the best in csu students as well as fort collins residents. it's geographic location is tough to beat, being an hour from denver and relatively close to most major ski hubs in the state. the poudre canyon is a short drive with plenty of hiking and biking trails, and wyoming is just up i-25. being a ram meant many things. for me, it meant getting a great education while being able to go for a climb after class, or a hike through the canyon, or skiing every weekend snow hit the ground. there are many part time jobs available in fort collins and the nightlife was off the hook.

CSU has some of the greatest people I have ever met in my life. Professors are friendly and thought-provoking, students are very sociable, and the scenery is amazing. While these all make CSU worthwhile, it reminds me of a hot club where you either have to A) know the bouncer or B) have to know a secret door in a creepy alley to get to. Counseling at CSU is the opposite of the faculty and students. They are not friendly, not cooperative, and seem unwilling to help students. The school is great, but the structure of the counseling department is like the DMV. Roughly 28,000 students attend Colorado State, making it around the same size as Virginia Tech. It offers more than 200 undergraduate and graduate programs, with 65 disciplines for Bachelor's degrees. For me, CSU size is just a shade too small. If it had 40K to 50K, I think I could spread my wings a little more. It's a give and take relationship, so I'll take the good people over more people. The campus at CSU is absolutely stunning. It's wide open with tall trees and the Rocky Mountains staring you in the face. You can breath on campus and actually have a relaxing stroll in between classes. In 1995 a flood rocked CSU damaging the majority of our buildings. Because of this, CSU had to upgrade and renovate all of structures including our library, lecture hall, and student center. Everything on campus seems brand spankin' new. Fort Collins is the fifth largest city in Colorado with nearly 120,000 people. Last year it was voted the #1 city in America by Money Magazine. Culturally, Fort Collins is a college town. The average age of a Fort Collins resident is 28.2 years, so we are a relatively young town. We have 652 restaurants, six movie theaters, 30 bars, 19 golf courses and 13 ski resorts in our area. This allows for students to do whatever they want for extracurricular activities. Last weekend I went up to Breckinridge for a day of skiing, came back and had dinner at my favorite restaurant, went to Old Town for some bar-hopping and saw a movie the next day to relax. Not too shabby. Even though CSU is a quaint, smaller campus, we have our drama. Consider us the Laguna Beach of university. Of course there was the tragic death of Samantha Spady. She was in my social circle and I knew a majority of the Sigma Pi's who found her. This rocked our campus and was a dose of reality. The school pulled together and now we party responsibly. We have RamRide, a designated-driver taxi service. We have people that hand out water bottles outside of bars and parties. Everyone looks out for each other. The other recent controversy that hit campus and made national headlines was our editorial section in our school paper The Collegian. After the "don't tase be bro," incident in Florida, our editor of the school paper thought it would be cute to have the entire editorial section read in large print: "Taser This: Fuck Bush." It was a cool, fall Friday morning when I sat down in my first class, peeled the paper open, to see those four words. While I agree with the statement, my journalism degree now was as attractive as Rosanne Arnold and Rosie O'Donnell going at it in a baby pool full of mash potatoes. This made CNN, Fox News and just about every major publication in the nation. We were trounced and bashed for the majority of it, with some liberals backing our first amendment rights. My professor for Online Journalism at the time was also the liaison between student media and the big whigs on campus. Let's just say he aged about ten years in one semester. One thing will always be a constant at Colorado State University: Our pride. We all think we have a good thing going here at CSU and will protect and defend that until we are green and yellow in the face. One experience that best conveys this is when the entire student population moseys on down to Denver to meet our archnemesis CU at Mile High Stadium. Everyone really shows their school spirit and goes ballistic. The atmosphere at a CU/CSU game is something that I will never forget.

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We have a lot school pride and it's funny how much we hate CU Boulder, it's fun to have a rivalry. CSU is the perfect size, some might think it's too big but it makes it easier to meet a bunch of new people.

I like the friendly and comfortable culture of CSU. The school is the right size right now yet is rapidly approaching becoming to large. The ability for CSU to affordable and adequate resources and services to all incoming and existing students is becoming less and less. I would change the culture of administrative decision making, student expectations and the lack of overall collaboration among the colleges and the different aspects of CSU. I spend most of my time in the Student Government offices as the student body Vice President. The most recent controversy on campus was over the Collegian, our student newspaper. There is the assumption by our administration that involving only those elected and not as many student experts as possible fulfills their obligation as they see it to solicit student opinion.

OH... Where to start. Being in the student government I'm given access to alot of "behind teh scenes" information. If I could change one thing it would be moving CSU to another state. Colorado Legislation is in the shits when it comes to high ed. The school is constantly raising tuition so that it can stay afloat. Of course we wouldnt have to do that if administration would take their head out of their ass and actually care for the studnet needs then thiers. CSU is an amazing school that has alot of potential unfortunatly no one cares except for the students, and not even all of the students. The biggest debates on school is lowering textbook prices stopping the constant rise of tuition, and the rec center. YES thats right! our rec center is fine...only if you go during the hours of 8am-2pm. Then you have to wait in line. The Rec center is asking for $34,755,000 to update it and expand. They want to add some cool features and increase student fees $35 plus some change, so beware the cost of student fees are on the rise. something that you will be shocked about once you get here is the shape of some of the academic buildings. Clark (a building everyone uses) hasnt been updated since it was built in the 60's its falling apart and no one is trying to fix it even with the concern of many students. There are a few new buildings being built a new computer science building and the rebuilding of dorms.(academic village is the place to go!!)