California State University-Sacramento Top Questions

I wish I had known more about there study abroad programs.

In high school it's easy to balance work and school. However, in college you have to be more focused and allow yourself plenty of study time. My first year I worked too much. At one point I was working two jobs and and balancing 16 units. This year I am sticking to one part-time off and asking for days off when I know i will need to study. Also I would've liked to explore more my first semester. Campus clubs definitley help ease homesickness.

I wish I had known that their child development program is amazing so that I would have decided on a major sooner. I also wish that I would have known that getting into needed classes wasn't as easy as it could be. It makes it hard to want to pay so much for school when you don't have the money to, and you aren't getting the right classes.

I wish that I knew that the there would be a lack of campus community. I had high expectations since my high schol also had a weak campus community.

I wish I had figured out my study habits before coming here, figured out my money situation earlier, and how much tuition was going to be raised, its getting a lot harder on me and my parents because it keeps going up.

I wish I had known more about American collge system before I came this collge, for I am a Japanese, so I did not know anything about it. Therefore, I've chose classes unwisely, dropped some classes without knowing the consequenses of those actions. Also, I did not know about financila aid or scholarship. Moreover, I did not konw how expensive text books were. Now that I know about all of that, I could tell that my college life would have been different if I knew them before I came to this college.

All the scholarships available and employment opportunities at the school. I also wish I had contacted the soccer team coach prior to trying out for the team and becoming a "walk-on" athlete. To my current knowledge, there are many benefits to being an employee of the University that would have been helpful financial assistance. In retrospect, finding funding prior to attending school would have been the best route, as being a full-time student and part-time employee was very challenging and limited my potential in earning a high GPA.

I wish I know spanish. Most students are very fluent in spanish. I wish I too had good knowledge of spanish.

Honestly, I did not expect the math professors to be so exceedingly knowledgeable and intelligent here at Sac State. I wish I knew it in advance. If you happen to pursue a math or science major, you will definitely enjoy your class sessions and the interaction with your professors because they are also very helpful and certainly lively people. It is incredible how much passion and joy they have towards the subjects they teach. I think that we, students, somehow gain this passion towards math too and get more excited even when taking the tests or just studying.

Not much, overall I think it is pretty good. Just don't expect to get the classes you want because you will end up with whatever is left and won't get any major classes until after you sophomore or junior year.