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One of the things that frustrate me about DePaul is the cost of living around the school campus. The campuses are located in Lincoln Park and Downtown, two of the most expensive areas in Chicago. Since I could not afford housing on-campus, I had to get an apartment 40 mins away. I travel on a city bus every day to school and work.

The most frustrating thing, however not a bad thing, is the fact that the school has three quarters with ten weeks of classes. The school is very fast paced and can get busy during midterms and finals. Other than those times, DePaul is a great and exciting place to be !

Some professors are hard to follow. One may speak with a very heavy accent and go fast whereas another professor will speak fast and be unorganized in regards to the students understanding.

Due to the expensive nature of living on or off-campus, students are forced to look for cheap housing or commute from home. As a result, the amount of communter students makes meeting people challenging. Also, there is a large amount of students that live far off campus, in order to have cheap housing, which adds to the difficulty of socializing with classmates.

I enjoy my school ing experience at DePaul very much. I guess the only real frustrating thing is trying to get your studying completed and have a vast array of knowledge on the subject in a little under 11-weeks.

This is mostly restricted to the theatre deapartment, but the work load at this school is very heavy. This is not really a bad thing, but being in Chicago obviously there is a lot that students want to do outside of school, but many times you have to give up the fun of the city to do homework and other class activities. It is a bit hard to do this, especially with downtown Chicago so close to campus. Many a Friday night I've watched people outside my window on their way to fun, and I'm doing homework.

The most frustrating thing about my school is the cost of tuition, my tuition alone is $26, 000 a year. Chicago is a very expensive city to live in to begin with, it's tax is 10.25{4a082faed443b016e84c6ea63012b481c58f64867aa2dc62fff66e22ad7dff6c} and the price of rent is ridiculous. DePaul doesn't have a lot of on-campus housing available, so unfortunately student in their junior and senior years are forced to commute by the El train to eithier the loop or lincoln park campus.

I would have to say for me the most frustrating thing about DePaul is finances. I had a 4.0 in high-school and didn't get any scholarship at all. According, to the school you have to score so high on your ACT before you are considered. Since I have trouble taking standarized tests and only received a average score I wasn't even considered so I have sizeable amount of debt but DePaul is worth it.

Classes filling up early on during registration.

The counselors do not seem to help out as much as they should. Although there are some that do help of course, there are many that do not. Also, due to the fact that it is not a school where everyone is always located in the same area (it being in the city) it is often hard to meet people.