Old Dominion University Top Questions

Freshman year I wish someone would have told me how important it was to make close connections with some of your professors. Any one of your teachers can be a potential reference or help in the long run. Its much better to start early rather than wait and then try to get your favorite teacher from freshman year to write you a recommendation letter when you are a junior or senior. They will have forgotten about you. Also it is just good to have someone you trust as a professor to talk to about academics, career goals, and overall life planning. They can serve as a mentor and get to know you and stick with you throughout your college experience and this can be really helpful.

I'm not taking classes on campus.

One thing I wish I would have known before I came to ODU was the cost of college living. I thought it would be cheaper.

I wish I had known about how it floods around here when it rains! If you are going to go to college here, you need rainboots or shoes that do well in water! When it rains, the campus is covered in water puddles, and if it rains for long the roads get very flooded.

I would like a little more on how to register for classes, access LEO online, school email and blackboard. Being a distance learning student, I did not receive a welcome packet to help with these things.

I felt like I knew all the adequate things that helped me succeed at Old Dominion University before I came, the only thing is that it would go by so quickly!

How the set up housing for students on campus already because its not that good.

The necessary hours a week for studying needed to be successful with grades!

I wish I would have known that my degree in nursing was a "portfolio" program.

One thing that I wish I had known before I came to this school was how small the campus with respect to other schools in Virginia. The very first time I arrived on campus, I thought it was big because I was used to highschool; after a friend and I walked basically the entire campus in one day I realized it was alot smaller than I thought.

That I wanted to major in criminal justice and not women studies.

I wish I would have know that the housing process isn't as satisfying as I thought it would be.

Ha, the only piece of information that I wish I knew going in was the erratic weather patterns. I had never lived by the coast before, so the constant wind and/or rain was a very harsh surprise.

I have been attending Old Dominion University. Before coming to this school, I wish I would have known more about the dangerous community that surrounds the school. I also wish I would have known the importance of going to all of my classes.

The parking is horrible. The University is growing faster than they can build dorms.

The cost of living here. It is far more expensive than most university towns I have been to.

My major.

I wish I would have known about more housing opportunities before I came to this school. ODU is a commuter school but I think more people would live on-campus or closer to campus had they known about the ODU off-campus communities.

I wish I had known how much walking I was going to be doing to get to all my classes, that not all the classes are close together and I wish I had known that I get to pick my classes online instead of asking what I should pick. That you meet new people from all over the world and get to understand their culture and how they came to the school

Every school has it's own culture of people and community. I wish I had known what kind of community resides here at ODU because I believe that college is meant for the sole pupose of learning, but not just in academics but within our very selves. It gives us the opportunity to grow ourselves individually, and make relationships. In a school that is mostly known in past years to be a communter school (it is no longer a communter school now), it can be difficult at times to involve oneself in the present community.