Colorado State University-Fort Collins Top Questions

The lack of knowledge that a Performing Arts major exists. CSU is so Agricultural and Science-focused, the more liberal degrees get overlooked or are less important.

While there are a lot of great resources available at my university, it is sometimes necessary to return multiple times before receiving help. It is a combination of finding the right person to ask and phrasing the question in the correct way to get help that help. I feel like it should not always have to be a work game in order to reach different resources.

The expectations. They expect you to be literally perfect, but that's humanly impossible and only stresses students out.

The worst thing is that there is a large chunk of campus that does not have emergency call buttons. This part of campus is through the intramural fields where a large chunk of students who live on campus walk during the day and night. We have call buttons in the main plaza, but it seems as though we are lacking in an area that seems quite crucial. In order for everyone's safety to be as secure as possible we need to make the efforts and find the funding to place several more call buttons throughout the intramural fields.

The worst, and most difficult thing about school is the fact that no one holds your hand. Your mother doesn't come and wake you up in the morning and tell you to get dressed. There is no one to yell at you when you want to play sick and ditch classes. You are responsible for you, no one else is. It is very difficult to stay motivated when someone isn't there constantly encouraging you.

I think that the worst thing about my school would be the online format for participating classes and grades. Some classes even use their own cite so there isn't a central format for each class. Everyone is different. Sometimes you even have to discuss in class and online and I believe that it really repetitive. I think that having one sight to see all the classes would be a great improvement. Also, guidelines for whether the classes are all online or in the classroom.

Some of the dorms are far from the classrooms which makes for a very long, cold walk in the winter.

The worst thing about Colorado State that I feel is that we promote that we are a "green university" but there are many times that I notice we really aren't that "green." For example over Thanksgiving break one of our buildings had the heat and lights on the entire time but it was closed. I wish that we lived up to the "green" status that our school has.

How the departments are seemingly not connected. It seems that each department keeps to its own and therefore has no knowledge of other departments. For example, my art advisor knows very little about other academic departments or opportunities other than art, so when I went to ask her about minoring in another academic department (Japanese), she merely told me to go to the foreign language department for that inquiry. I believe that an advisor should know at least the basics of other departments...

I'd say there are only two problematic things on campus: parking and preachers. Our campus is installing buildings while trying to remain small and accesible. So parking lots are ripped out to become new building sites, a trend encouraged by the 'green campus' image that endorses low car use. All well and good, save for students who live far from campus. Bieng one of them, I'm annoyed. And the preachers. We are a fairly liberal school, but occasionally a preacher shows up to rant and stays for hours. Their raving, if anything, turns students away from their faith.