Colorado State University-Fort Collins Top Questions

I struggled with depression and severe anxiety when I first entered college as a teen, all of which were a result of perfectionism. College courses are difficult, and learning to manage classes, a work-schedule, finances, and a social life can become over-whelming. Instead of withdrawing into myself and dropping out of school, I wish I had learned to reach out and ask for help. There is no shame in seeking support when needed, and I wish I had known how supportive professors and counsellors would be if I had chosen to express these issues to them.

I wish I had known more people who went to CSU and I wish I had known to be a better saver with money. College is so expensive and the rumors are true when they say that college students are broke students. I advise anyone to start working on their saving habits and learning the value of money before they leave to go to college.

How different college academics are compared to high school academics.

I wish I had known all the great resources available to me to help me if I was struggling in class. I wish I had known what a bad idea it was to take out student loans to go to school. I am still $39,000 in debt and I have been paying on them for 10 years!

I wish I would have known about all of the available resources at my disposal. I went through my first semestor kind of on my own when it came to schoolwork. By the time the second semester rolled around, I started to find out about all of the tutoring options throughout campus. This definitely got me through my second semester a lot better than my first.

The professors really don't baby you like teachers did in high school. There is no easy way out, you need to do your work and earn your grades because the professors really don't care if you don't make the effort.

I wish that I had known how hard it would be to keep up my relationships from my hometown. I have met so many amazing people here and consider most of them to be some of my best friends. However, I have lost touch with a lot of my best friends from high school. I wish I had realized that even though I only live an hour away from my home town it would still be very hard to keep in contact with those friends and how hard it would be to connect on a deep leavel with them.

I wish I had known about all the construction they were going to do on campus. I live in one of the towers and I cant eat at our dining hall because it is currently being renovated. Other placed such as, Corbette's lot is closed, the Lory Student Center is in the midst of renovation too, behind Braiden Hall, The Behavioral Science Building, and a few other areas. Getting to class in inconvienent.

Before being sent off into the unknown world of adulthood, there are a few pieces of advice I would give to my high school self. Though, college seems to be a time in everyone's life where everything happens all too fast and simultaneously- the education, meeting new people, having too much fun, becoming an adult- the main piece of advice is to experience all this, just in moderate amounts. This means not staying up until 4am just because you can! There's so much to learn and experience; don't get caught up in just one thing!

The real learning environment. Faculty are unreachable and TAs are rude, plus scheduling is nearly impossible and class sizes are too big. This campus and its true values do not support academic achievement.