Saint Louis University Top Questions

I would have liked to know more about housing and theoptions for housing. I also would have liked to know more about the different activites, clubs, and sports that SLU offered.

I wish I had had a better understanding of how the clinical portion of the program would work.

I wish I had known about all the ways to get out of my dorm room and into campus life. There is so much to do academically, extra-curricularly, and socially that I still don't even know about. The resources offered to help students get the most out of the education at Saint Louis University are numerous, and I would have liked to be aware of all these before I first came to the school, so I could have made my transition to the school a little smoother.

I transferred to Saint Louis University at the start of the Spring 2011 semester. Because most students either start their education or transfer in for the fall semester, I was not involved in all of the new school year activities. Some of these activities include joining soroities, fraternities and clubs. I was really hoping to be able to join some different clubs at the university but since they already had their members and were situated with eachother I decided to wait until the fall to look into them.

How to be an academic grind.

I wish that I had known things like the lack of social life. That's a huge thing for me, and because there's no outlet for my social needs, I end up spending a ton of time on facebook.

I wish I had known how difficult some of my science classes freshmen year were going to be and how much time I would need to study. In high school, my study habits were insufficient for success in a college classroom. I had to learn whole new study techniques and the discipline to study often and effectively. Had I been able to start with a better set of study skills, my freshmen GPA would have been quite a bit higher. Basically I had to relearn how to study for a challenging college environment.

I wish I had just understood how expensive college in general (and for that matter, life outside of my parents' home) becomes. Everything out in the world costs money, and sometimes sacrifice and planning needs to be made. So I believe that I have learned much about life in general just by living on campus. I also wish I had known how hard it is to manage time. There are so many other things to do that sometimes its hard to force myself to sit down and do homework or study.

I wish I had known how to approach people. I met most of my friends through my roommate, which has turned out amazingly, but I wish I could have been more open my freshman year. I wish I had understood fully that everyone was in the exact same boat that I was. I also wish I had know how to cook a wider variety of meals, it has been a few years of trial and error in the kitchen.

I wish I had know how expensive everything would be at Saint Louis University. Asides from the high tuition, textbooks are more expensive than the last TWO universities i went to, by hundreds of dollars, my parking pass was also hundreds of dollars, and the food is very pricey as well. The average sandwhich costs $7-8 and does not taste that good at all. These are just a few examples of the ridiculously high cost of attending SLU.