Indiana University-Bloomington Top Questions

I wish I had known to apply for more scholarships before I came to Indiana University. The downside of this college is that they include a lot of fees and charges that they do not tell you about until after you have been accepted and are paying fees to secure your dorm room and paying the fee to secure your place at their college. I was under the impression that I would be paying around fifteen thousand dollars a year, which transformed into over twenty-one thousand dollars a year due to fees.

I wish I would have known about the amount of "partying" that occurred at IU. It sometimes disturbes me the amount of trouble that happens at these events and the cattiness of many of the sororities and fraternities.

I wish i had known about the various scholarships that IU offeres to students. There are so many scholarships that many people are qualified for but have never heard of. I wish i had been given a better dorm to live in. The best dorms are in Northwest area, they have the better food courts and air conditioning.

I wish I knew the value of advanced placement classes. I wish I knew how truly poor and worthless the high school I went to was. My room mates all transferred in over twenty credits to begin their freshman years. I was literally never even encouraged to take advanced placement courses and am therefor now behind - relative to other students.

I wish I had known that the walking distance between classes is extremely long and not to take 8:00 AM classes!!

I am a transfer student from University of Bridgeport in Fall 2010, I knew well about this university "climate" before I came here, and this is also the reason why I came here. What's more I wishes to know before I came is whether I can be myself and get a super great progress with my efforts. I want to be somebody so that I need to find an appropriate place with the "climate" that I wanted.

I wish I would have known the difficulties of adjusting from high school to college, and who to contact if I feel confused or alone.

I wish that I had aquired more time-management skills in high school. There's so much to do and a lot of reading in classes, and it's hard to manage all the activities with all of the work. That wasn't something I was prepared to do because there weren't so many distractions in high school.

That there were so many out of state students that attended there.

It would have have been better knowing what living in a dorm was really like. I wan't prepared for the heavy drinking and pot smoking that I saw happening. I had a hard time getting to know people because the drinking was so pronounced it was hard to find non-drinkers so I could go out and just have fun without drunken stupidity ruining many weekends.