Ohio State University-Main Campus Top Questions

I wish I had know more about how financial issues are here.

The one thing that I wish I knew before I came here was how to use the bus system.

Coming to Ohio State, I wish I would have known how busy the first two weeks would be. From the moment you arrive on campus, there is constantly something to be doing and after a few days packed with Welcome Week activities, it can all quickly become overwhelming. I wish that someone would have told me once Welcome Week ends and you get settled into your classes enough to know where they are without having to look at a map, things calm down. If all of college was as busy as the first two weeks, I wouldn't survive.

I wish I would have known how much walking I would have to do every day!

I wish I would have known what I wanted to major in. Going to college "undecided" was not a good experience for me. I wasted a lot of time trying to figure out what I wanted to do with my life. I wish I could go back and tell the high school version of myself to take a year off from school to try to figure out what I wanted to do in college. I also wish I hadn't been so close-minded towards greek life.

I wish I could've visited more often and got a feel of the campus. Also I wish I could've did a transition program to help me settle.

Well I will be in incoming freshman. I have not completed one day at Ohio State yet, so I don't have any words of wisdom quite yet.

People go crazy for Buckeyes games. Like beyond what I thought when people used the word crazy to me in passing. The whole campus area shuts down and becomes this vibrant space of people tailgating lawns, and what might be best described as people moving in herds. Prepare yourself mentally for something crazy.

There is not much else I wish I knew beforehand. After all of the tours I attended I got much sound advice. Of which includes building good relationships with your professors, ask questions, and join some student groups at least one of which is 'outside your comfort zone.'

I wish I would have known how much I would love it there. Making the decision to go to Ohio State was difficult and a lot of guilt was involved. Knowing how happy it would make me would have made the decision much easier.

I wish I had known that you don’t have to try to change to fit in because when you are yourself, then you will fit in at Ohio State. College is a great opportunity to reinvent who you want to be as a person, and that it doesn't matter who you were in the past. At Ohio State, I wish I had known I would meet my best friends and that I hadn't been so worried about leaving home, because I would love it there.

I felt well prepared for going in to college. OSU's orientation helped me familiarize myself with the the resources available to me to have a successful first year. However, I wasn't prepared for the courseload required for honors courses.

Something I wish that I would have known before coming to OSU is the idea that it is ok to change your mind about what you want to do with your future. I grew up always focused that I would become a doctor, but many people do not realize that college is the time to really discover what you want to do in life. If I knew this when I first started college at OSU, I would have made better choices with the classes I was taking rather than wasting time in a field I was not sure of.

I wish I would have had a major picked out so that I could start taking the classes I needed right off the bat. I was unsure of what to study so I took a couple classes I ended up not needing and I regret that.

The affect the size of the campus (student to teacher ratio) has on academics.

Ohio State is a big university, with a total enrollment of over 50,000 students, which is often intimidating to a lot of students in the college decision making process. But sometimes a focus on the statistics can dilute a school into a meaningless slush of numbers. The college proverb that tour guides at OSU like to echo is, “You can make a big university small, but you can’t make a small university big.” Within a semester you will find yourself making small groups of friends that will remain your close companions for all four years.

How to get around such a wide spread campus

It's not as hard as you might think! I wish somebody had told me that I can double major and double minor or triple major and still graduate on time and not have an overload. Only in the end of my second year, I discovered that fact

How to be a better college student. How to study and budget my time.

I would have liked know the cheapest places to purchse books on campus, as well as where all of the tutoring centers were located.