Rutgers University-New Brunswick Top Questions

I wish I had better self study habits before coming to Rutgers. Since most of the classes are very large, a good amount of class material is inevitably self-taught because often professors are hard to understand, inaccessible, or go through material very quickly in lecture.

There is not much that I wish I had known before I came to this school, but I would say that anything I was not sure about or had difficulty with the staff at Rutgers is always available and ready to assist any student that has a question or concern. Rutgers has its own phone operating service that students can call 24 hours to ask various questions through out all five campuses.

While there is a lot that you need to know to be successful at a school like Rutgers, there is nothing specific that I would say I wished I had known before attending the school. The most important things are easiest to learn as you go. There are a couple of things that could have been helpful though. The first is that to make your schedule it is really easiest to talk to an advisor rather than doing it yourself. The second thing that I would say you really need to know is how to get around the campus.

That this school has alot of to do with, who you know, more than what you know. I wish i had known more people, so i would know the 411 on professors and classes before i took them.

One cannot see into the future and neither can I. When my sister attended Rutgers five years ago, it was not the same school as it is now. Rutgers has made a lot of changes, some good and some changing traditions that it has been known for. I suppose I would have like to have known that it was going to change its housing plans for on campus housing, to make it harder to sign back to an apartment. I also would have liked to know the changes being down to buildings that did not have problems.

I came into school with a long held vision of EXACTLY what I wanted to study and found when I came to school that I did not really enjoy that course of study as much as I had thought I would. It was difficult for me to adjust mentally to doing something different than I had originally planned. As such I wish that I had known to keep a more open mind about exploring options in college than I had had when I arrived. In the end I feel that I eventually made the right choice about my path.

Before I went to Rutgers I was given advice and many more warnings. Being young and excited, I forgot most of it, some by accident, the rest because I didn?t care to remember. Rutgers is a great - diverse and large. I didn?t realize how many social learning opportunities I would encounter there. I learned about the world around me, other people and myself. I wish someone had told me to be a sponge. There is so much to soak up and learn outside of the classroom and each one of those experiences has made my life much richer.

Before I came to Rutgers I wish that I had, had a better focus as far as what career I planned to pursue following my matriculation at this university. I came in without a true focus and I believe that it hurt me a lot in the end.

I wish I had known to start a college fund before high school. Being an out of state student, tuition and travel expenses combined with housing and meal plan costs are higher than in-state students, but I never imagined my fees would be as high as they are when I applied for college. Had I known to start a fund for myself earlier in life, I believe it would have helped my current financial situation tremendously.

Wish I new better study techniques, but I aqcuired them over time.