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There should be more resources available to help new students to deal with the "party" atmosphere that the university is infamous for, its frustrating that the school almost seems to let students flunk without caring.

The most fustrating thing about my school is the transportation system. We have something called the PRT, Personal Rapit Transportation, its like a metro for students. It takes students from one campus to another and students need it quite a lot. It is sad to say that it breaks down oftenly and then students are either late to classes or they have to walk. The school provides buses, but the buses can only take so many students at once, and in fact, there are many students on either campuses.

WVU has the reputation of being a top party school in the country. Majority of the student body is out to have a good time most days of the week. Conqequently, most of my class mates struggled balancing academics with their socail lives and their grades reflected the power struggle. If students worked harder on their school work, the school would not have a bad reputation. I believe that a college with a successful student body knows the balance between school and partying, and keep their grades high.

People also don't really consider WVU a good school because they think it is just a party school, when really WVU has a lot of excellent programs and great professors that really do want to help you succeed.

Some teachers are more focused on their own research than actually teaching students.

The most frustrating thing about Wittenberg is its location. Springfield Ohio in is not the safest place. I do not feel comfortable leaving campus much later than eight o'clock at night without another person because the local people are not freiendly to college students. I understand that a college is sometimes located in towns that are less appealing because it brings students closer to the campus and created a feeling of a campus community but I do not like feeling unsafe.

I have to say walking to class. I have to carry around an inhaler because in between classes I'm out of breathe. Also like i said before some people think they are better than others because they have money, fancy cars, or in a preppy frat. They just kill your self eestem

When I attended WVU (2004-2007), the most frustrating thing was the jam-packed PRT cars that frequently breakdown. It's a cool idea, but the nearly 50 year-old system needs to be updated.

The most frustrating thing about my school is the fact that people don't take the university seriously. Many people decide not to come to WVU because of its reputation. It's sad, but true. The university does have a bad reputation, but there are so many other good things about it that people overlook. Others stereotype the school and focus on it's bad reputation rather than the many positives it has to offer.

How hard my major is

The transportation situation is frustrating. There are few parking spaces available. The PRT does break down.

The most frustrating thing about my school is the terrain; it is very hilly.

The most frustrating thing about WVU is its lack of parking. Saything that, though, the school does a pretty fair job of tying the two campuses together. There are buses that run on a schedule in between the campuses and also a PRT (Personal Rapid Transit). The best way to describe the PRT is as an above ground subway. It is fairly old and breaks down rather frequently, but it gets the job done. Just always have a back up plan when trying to get to a class on the opposite campus.

The most frustrating thing about my school is that despite the great academic experience I have had here, not to mention the phenomenal Division 1 athletic event experiences, the first thing people assume when you say you are going to WVU is that you are going there to party, and that is simply not indicative of how the entire student body acts. The actions of the majority have become the frustration of the minority who can't shake the assumptions.

So far nothing really. The biggest problem is that the campus is on hills, and this means you have to walk up alot of stairs to get to almost anything.

Unless you are willing to walk at least fifteen minutes every day to classes or drive every day, morgantown is a busy and loud place. I live in South Park and it takes me about 20 minutes to talk to class every day. And everything here is uphill, so a decent amount of any walk through the city is going to be uphill. You get your exercise, but accept that fact BEFORE you come here.

Along with most other schools, the price of books here is outrageous. I believe that along with subsidizing trips and housing, WVU should also help with the cost of text books.

The transportation is a big problem! There is monorail system set up for the students yet it gets stuck/doesn't work and therefor, doenst provide transportation. The busses come every half hour which is ineffective since most people will be late to classes or really early. There is also not many things to do in the town besides party/drink.

The same answer as above applies here. I don't like that I have to spend so much time going back and forth between different offices and reminding people to file an application or resending the same email multiple times to get an answer.