SUNY at Binghamton Top Questions

SO COLD!

I wish I had known a little more about how college works and how to financially plan for college.

I wish I had known that the weather was so horrendous in Binghamton, and had prepared to be in a cold and rainy and snowy environment. Otherwise, it was a great school!

City is dead, not much to do on weekends that doesn't involve alcohol, full of people that didn't make it into Cornell.

How apathetic most students are

this school has five different individual undergraduate colleges. School of Management, Harpur College, Decker School OF Nursing, Watson ENgineering, Human developement. Do not confuse an acceptance to one with an acceptance to the other. I did so with SOM and i cannot be a business major. I am forced to major in economics instead.

The lack of major banks in the area. That i need to apply for jobs well ahead of time. That i need to have all my classes picked out before i start to register.

The usual weather here.

How little funding the state gave this school

I believe that I was well prepared for college life. I only wish I had saved up more money in order to have certain luxuries more readily available to me.

I wish I had known that it would challange me enough and that it might not have such a strong program for my major. that being said i think it was the right school for me at the time and im glad I went .

To bring more jackets and cold weather gear, it snows for about 5 months up here. Blackouts = no school! Get involved starting freshman year, you lose a lot of time by just transitioning into college. Get a hold of yourself and get your work done. 4 years of work for a lifetime of success or 4 years of partying for a lifetime of indfference.

I wish I had known how to be a more responsible individual with spending money. College in general, not only Binghamton, can be very expensive at times. I wish I had known not to spend so much money on eating out & shopping for clothes, but for more important necesities such as shampoo or water. Other than that, I feel that the campus environment is so relaxed that it is easy to adjust and adapt to its different ways so I have no other regrets.

I wish I had really believed that it was okay to not have a major coming in as a new student. I pressured myself a lot to come up with a major because I thought that would make me more successful, when really I chose the wrong major and became unseccessful. If new students just register for courses that interest them, their interests will spark and an idea for a major will eventually come along without the pressure of forcing yourself into one.