Missouri State University-Springfield Top Questions

About all of the new facilities being built and the Agriculture facilities away from campus that hold the horses, cattle, and upper classes.

I wish I would have known how important experience is for getting a job and how important it is to pursue a degree with jobs that are in demand.

I wish I would have known that a university has more homework than a community college. I came from a community college where it was common to only have homework once or twice a week. When I started at the university I was shocked to find that I have homework everynight after class. Once I got used to it I was fine, it just caught me off guard at first and stressed me out.

The feild that I was going to go into. If I had known that I wanted to go in cell/molecular biology I would have chosen a school that was more well known for this field.

I wish that I had known how to study effectively. In high school, studying doesn't mean the same thing as it does in college. In college, I'm not in the same class every day so I don't get a fresh reminder of what we learned before. It's on me to work outside of the classroom to understand the material so I can do well on the test and other homework assignments.

I wish that I would have know what kind of extracaricular activties the campus offered, the varity of food was served at the campus, what there was to do around the campus and in Springfield in general, and more about resident hall living.

I wish I would have known what I wanted my major to be so I could get a head start in completing some of the required classes.

I wish I would have know that Missouri State wasn't going to be an easy school. I have to work harder here with studying than I ever did in high school.

I wish I would have known how things work in college compared to high school better. The fact that all the reliability almost instantly switches from consistent help from your teachers in high school to sole responsibility in college is a bi change.

I wish I had done a wider range of college searches. I often wonder what it would be like if i was at this or that college, and I wish I would have looked in to other schools.