Texas A & M University-College Station Top Questions

How much more time I needed to take out for studying and less time out being social.

That a University is nothing like High School. It takes much more work to get your desired grade. You have to keep up with your class work on your own and keep on track with what your professor is teaching in class. Nothing comes easily, when it pertains to grades.

College is far harder than high school. Study. Talk with professors. Get involved. See what's out there. Only then, can you really start to understand who you are.

I wish I had known that the mindset you are forced to have in high school does not prepare you at all for college. In fact, I wish I had never been in that mindset at all.

I wish I would have known just how much walking I would have to do each day. I was not at all prepared to wear the right footwear in order to make it through the day without my feet feeling like they were going to fall off.

The only thing I regret about my college experience thus far has involved drug and alcohol use. I wish I would have known how easy it is at this University to live a wild lifestyle and have no one question it. Prospective students should know that drugs and alcohol are common at this school, and that getting mixed up in them has disastrous results. Thankfully, my GPA has transcended my freshman mistakes.

I wished I would have known some of the school's traditions. I was admitted in the university in the spring semester so I wasn't able to go to any of their fish camps and learn about each tradition.

I wish I had taken more time in looking into campus life. I lived off campus and regret never on campus. There are so many advantages to living in a dorm the first year, like learning the ropes of the campus. It is a large campus and I often had to carry a map with me the first year but the friends I had knew where everything was within a month. Also it saved them a lot of time because they did not have to find parking and walk across campus to get to class.

I wish I had known more about financial aid

Honestly, I enjoy everything about the school. If I were to say I wish I knew one thing about the school before I came here it would be that I knew what all my professors expected without having to go through the whole guessing process.