Sebastian
The most frustrating thing about college, is time, mostly. It all revolves around it, sometimes you get a lot of projects and exams for a specific day or week and your time is unaccountable. Some days you just have to have a jar of coffee and stay up all night finishing a project or memorizing things for a test. However, as I always say, It's all worth it when you put that much effort into classes and see great results after.
Juliana
Adjusting to the class sizes, they were larger than what I had expected.
Kayla
They promised more financial aid and now I am not getting any. I am from Wisconsin and Iowa State has both of my majors and minors I want, but they are very expensive for me which is taking a toll on my family.
Matthew
The most frustrating thing about Iowa State centers around residence halls. Dorms are often overcrowded, and you'll be lucky if the common areas (like the floor den) hasn't been taken up by extra students the school couldn't find room for. In addition, in the dorm I lived in, there was no common kitchen, so any dishes that had to be washed were done in the bathroom sinks, and even quick meals were difficult to make.
Allison
As an out of state/out of the midwest student, it was exteremely intimidating in the beginning as a freshman. Most students are from in- state and at least knew people from high school, and many had their good friends from high school as well. I found it difficult to make friends when I first arrived at college.
Lani
getting to meet everyone
Meghan
The most frustrating thing about this school is probably the fact that it is expensive to live on campus.
Sarah
The most frustrating thing about Iowa State would be how far apart some of the classes can be your freshman year even if they are all engineering courses. There were some days I would have to walk across campus three times within five hours to get to all my classes.
Valarie
The most frustrating thing about my school is that no every instructor uses the online database to post grades. I have had quite a few instructors that do not post grades anywhere online and it can be frustrating to not know where I stand in the class and I have to go out of my way to talk to them every time I want to find out.
Justin
The most frustrating things about Iowa State University is the low levels of personability from the non-academic staff. Professors and Teaching Assistants generally make an effort to connect to students on a personal level, if the student chooses to seize the opportunity. The rest of the staff seems to treat students as "another face". The exceptions are to students that the staff member already personally knows. Most non-academic employees (which include financial aid staff), are Iowa natives and tend to give preference to other Iowans