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There are many positive aspects about my school; yet, the downside about my University is that we are in the middle of nowwhere and in order to go places we need to drive around thrity to forty minutes. Another aspect about my school that i do not like is how my school's interent is usually very slow and has blocked certain websites causing us to use only the websites they think are appropriate.

Some classes are unavailable when needed so I have to wait until the next semester or two more to take the class.

Being at Iowa State University for a whole year now, it is very hard for me to come up with the "worst thing" about my school. Iowa State is an amazing university with a beautiful campus, teachers who care, and opportunities for all types of students. However, if I had to pick one thing about the university that was the worst, it would be the affordability of dining. The dining system charges you for so many meals and extra dining dollars that you never use. They overcharge for what students actully use.

Increasing tuition

The high level of international students make for a strange cultural gap within the student body. While most Indian students integrate exceptionally well and are counted amongst my close friends, a great deal of Chinese internationals come into the community with limited English language skills and keep to themselves. This is most evident within my engineering classes, where I sometimes feel like I am the foreigner.

The worst thing, in my opinion, is the overflow of incoming students every fall. Iowa State University just had a record-breaking year for number of incoming freshmen, and they are predicting another record year for 2012-13. Good for them, but the dorm halls fill up quickly. This forces other students to move off-campus, and Department of Residence gets bombarded with complaints and requests for places to live. My recommendation is more for Iowa State University; build more dorm halls. To prospective students, I recommend that they get on-campus housing figured out and signed off right away.

Some of the Greek Frat guys can be tools.

The worst thing about Iowa State is often having professors or teachers' assistants who do not speak English as cleary as I'd like and are sometimes hard to understand.

I would have to say the food variety and the freshness of their produce once in a while. The dining centers usually rotate the same food every two weeks, the lettuce is sometimes wilted and brown, and the cooked veggies are mushy. Other than that Iowa State is like any other collge I have heard about. There are fun classes and horrible classes, awesome professors and horrible professors.

The worst thing that I have found at the university so far has been the unnecessary pulling of fire alarms during the night that occured during the first week and as I have been told has occured during finals week. However, this is probably something that would be found at most universities.

Parking availability is not very good here and the teachers for the generals education classes needs to be improved.

The worst thing about the school is the late three hour labs, it makes people have to pull a late night even though they have a early eight o clock class the following morning.

It is quite a large school. At first, you feel a bit lost and forgotten, but as you become more aquainted with campus and the University it gets better. There are so many clubs, organizatons, programs, etc. that it is almost too overwhelming. I guess that these "worst" things about Iowa State really are positives once you get familiarized with them.

The worst thing that I would consider about my school would have to be its location. Unfortunately it is almost three hours away from my hometown. At first it was really hard from me to be away from my family but I have learned to deal with the distance. It also isn’t the biggest town with not a lot to do like most college towns but that can come as an advantage as well.

After pondering this question, I really cannot think of a bad thing about this school. The people are great, classes are awesome, and opportunities are endless. If I had to choose a worst thing about the school it would have to be the weather. During the winter it can be a very cold experience walking to class.

The Cyclones. I have always grown up a Hawkeye fan and so it was against my nature to come to their rival school, but I believe that Iowa State really was the best fit for my small town lifestyle.

I love everything about Iowa State University and I wouldn't change anything!

the worst thing about the school is the surrounding area. it is iowa so there is not much to do outside of the unviersity but the school is making tremendous efforts in changing this.

The only negative side to Iowa State is the parking. Sometimes it is tough to find good spots, because there are so many students. You also have to be independant and disciplined, because you are the only one to manage yourself.

The worst thing about my school is how they make you take lots of 101-type courses during your first year. It adds to the already overpearing pressure of getting used to college.