Indiana University-Bloomington Top Questions

I wish I had known how serious it was to start off on the right track as far as academics. Keeping a steady academic record makes it easier to keep up your GPA and instills motivation to keep doing better.

I wish I would have known that my financial aid would decrease after my freshman year.

I wish I had known how hard it would be to adjust to college life before I came to school. It was much harder to assimilate myself to this type of atmosphere and being this far away from home. I have gotten much more used to it this year, but as a freshman it was much harder.

I wish I had known more about the different types of majors and what careers you can obtain from them.

I wish I'd had more exposure to research earlier, so that I could have more experience with it under my belt as I go on to graduate & professional research.

I wish I would have known more about what I wanted to do for a profession after I graduated. I switched majors a few times which set me back academically and financially. I also wish I would have researched more about the cost of tuition, room and board, and living expenses. I have yet to find a job in my career field and I owe more than 30,000 dollars in financial aid.

I wish I would have been better prepared to balance academics with extracurriculars and a social life. In comparison to high school, where I was able to participate in whichever activities I desired, college extracurriculars involve a refinement of your personal goals for the organization as well as a larger time commitment, which, with a full load of classes, can be a challenge.

I wish I had known how important career related internships are in the business school. Transferring in from Penn State the middle of my sophomore year and feel like I did not have enough time to focus on looking for an internship. Only now do I realize how important this is.

I wish I would have known the career path that I desired to take and not have wasted so much time trying to figure out what I wanted to do with my life.

I wish I would have been more familiar with the campus and the different buildings because it is a spread out campus that can be hard to learn.