Arizona State University-Tempe Top Questions

The most frustrating thing about ASU would have to be the price of things. Everything seems to be overly expensive; parking, food on campus, tuition. Tuition is currently on the rise, which means naturally that other things will increase as well. Almost everything a person wants to participate in comes with a pesky tacked on fee.

I believe the most frustrating thing about my school is the academic advisors. In my program our advisor switched four times in two years and each of them gave us different information causing may students to have to overload on coursework in order to graduate on time.

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The most frustrating thing about ASU, currently is the rise in tuition prices and the additional fees they have started imposing. However, with the economic crisis, as a student I have tried to be understanding.

Classes at ASU are so huge. It is considered normal to have a class with 700 students more. It really becomes problematic when you are trying to get the most out of your collegic experience , when you can't really attend office hours or there over booked because the class size! You have to distinguish yourself in the crowd, get to classses early, and if you can sit in the front row of all your classes. In the long run can be beneficial academically and finanicially. This way you can reap the rewards , and enjoy your collegic experience the most.

The most frustrating thing about my school is the variety of payment methods. We can use cash or card, maroon and gold dollars, or sun dollars. M&G dollars are used primarily for food and students are able to load money onto their I.D. With sun dollars, a student is able to use it at several more locations including places off of campus. The frustrating part is that as a freshman student living on campus, we only have the option of either a meal plan or maroon and gold dollars so we are limited in a lot of ways.

That it is the largest campus in the country, living on one end to get to class on the other. A bike or longboard is recommended.

Tuition keeps going up and my program has very little funding.

The most frustrating thing is that ASU functions like a business, and I notice much more emphasis on that than on education. They hike up the prices of everything, just because they can and they know that because students often have no choice, they'll buy things anyway. Another frustrating thing is the location, because Arizona is a very boring state, so there isn't much to do here except party, but most ASU parties are dumb. Also, because ASU accepts so many students so easily, there tend to be many not-so-intelligent students, which can get really annoying.

Some of the bus schedules are a little off, and at times inconvenient when trying to reach another campus for a class in the afternoon. Also, it seems like the school does as much as it can to attract alumni, draw them back to the campus, but for some reason - even though they follow the developments and events on each campus - they tend to not partake in certain activities or have no interest in traveling back to the area for anything going on.