Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus Top Questions

Tell students to get plugged in! Find friends! Good friends are better than good drinks. For those who are worried about the size of Penn State, it takes only getting to know a handful of people to make you feel right at home.

All in all, I love Penn State and I don't know any PSU students who don't love it. It is a great place to be and I couldn't be happier that I ended up here.

Overall, I feel that my time at Penn State was not all that different from a college experience that I would have had elsewhere aside from the fact that it will help me make a connection later in the business world simply for the sheer size of the alumni. I will say, though, that this doesn't mean that I didn't enjoy my time here. In fact, I was in college every semester except for one summer. I'm a doer. I've tried a lot. I've explored a lot. I've experienced many emotional ups and downs and what I've learned is that everyone is going through something similar. You're never alone, but you'll never be fully understood. All you need to do is be true to yourself, hold on to as many friends as you can, and enjoy the ride; really, that's all life's about anyway.

Penn State is a "college-y" type college. If you want to attend a college that looks like it's from a movie, that's Penn State. It is pretty good all around, doesn't specialize in too much (except meterology and turf management apparently) but it's great if you want the quintescential All-American college experience. Plus it's in a beautiful area, great little town, good people. Just be prepared to live 9 months out of the year as winter. It's like freaking Canada.

I LOVE PENN STATE.

nah

Enemy school=Ohio State

I went to Penn State because it was the best school for the major that I wanted to be in coming out of High School. It had the best program, best faculty, best campus, and it was close enough to live at home if I needed to. I wanted to move away from my home town, but decided that I wanted to see what would happen to all the people I had known in high school and how they would change. I also figured that if I wanted to change majors it was the best place to be, given the huge range of majors and classes. However, in retrospect, now that I know more about colleges and about myself, I wish I had gone to a smaller, more urban liberal arts school. The Liberal Arts and Arts in General at PSU are not very interchangeable, and the truth is that I was never going to be able to make the change to a math/science kind of major (which is really where PSU has the majority of its worthwhile majors). So, if you're an undergraduate reader, a painter, a dancer, an explorer, I say go elsewhere, for your own sake (unless maybe you're in one of those math/science majors). In my experience, people aren't doing a lot of personal growth at PSU. They aren't exploring or searching for something unnamed. They know what they want, and it's "work hard, party hard." They want a piece of paper to get them a good job in a certain field, and they want to live the MTV experience on weekends, and watch it on TV on weeknights. But of course that's just my take.

Penn State is generally very boring. If you're not into drinking or partying, you've got to work a little to find people worth hanging out with. If you find those people, you've got to be assertive in talking to them. It's generally pretty stupid. Also cold... very cold.

I recommend students study abroad, atleast for a summer semester, and to participate in some sort of club or organization. Boxing and working here have made me very structured and organized.