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February 18, 2007 |
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If you like an urban setting, with hundreds of thousands of people your age, you'll love OSU. OSU is its own island, because you need a car to get around Columbus (the king of urban sprawl) but the parking is terrible here.
OSU is big and bureaucratic, but that makes self-selection more important to how far you get ahead. There are so many classes, majors and opportunities, in my five years here, I still don't know all the classes that would have been good for me. Which brings me to another point - the Gen Ed curriculum is ridiculously large, so expect to spend at least an extra quarter here compared to other schools like UCLA.
If you're an Ohioan, you can't beat the price, and many of the programs are in the top ten in the country (eg PoliSci, Arabic, Finance). One of the problems with the academics is many of the best professors either don't teach undergraduates, or teach so scarcely that you won't be able to get the best recommendations for grad school.
And of course, OSU is a party haven, with triple digits of kegs at some of the bigger parties, and smaller scale parties on every block. Columbus is a required stop on most musical tours, and every band imaginable comes to one of our venues here.
I came to OSU because it was cheap but good. I took advantage of the suberb honors program to get a great education for peanuts. Cost of living is cheap too, and if you share an apartment, your rent and utilities combined can be less than $300 per month. |
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January 19, 2007 |
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Keep in mind that this campus is enormous. It's its own city, really. There are around 45,000 or 50,000 students here, so there are plenty of subcommunities and subcultures here. You may have to do some exploring before you find the right crowd for you, but you can certainly find it. OSU has a reputation as a party school, and that's certainly one kind of OSU experience that you can have. On the other hand, there are plenty of other things to do, too. I was never a big partier (though I went to a few blow-outs), and I had a great time and never felt out of place.
OSU is as diverse academically as it is culturally and socially. Whatever you want to study (with the exception of photography and filmmaking), you can probably study it here. If, like me, you decided to go to college because you genuinely love to learn, there are tons of opportunities for you, in almost any field. Lots of people at OSU complain about huge cattle-car classes with TAs who don't care at all. There are plenty of courses like that, but with even a little creativity and adventurousness, you can have a very, very different classroom experience. I recommend taking honors courses and the small, specialty liberal arts classes whenever you can.
Another great thing about OSU is that the scheduling and financial arrangements are designed to accommodate students in almost any economic situation. You can easily go to school one quarter, work the next, and come back later. The only cases where that's hard to do are in required sequences of classes, such as the 4-class Molecular Genetics series, or the 3 class honors intro analysis series. There are lots of interesting work study opportunities, with high pay rates. |
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December 15, 2006 |
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Ohio State University, in Columbus, Ohio is enormous. It's really its own city, somewhat separate from Columbus. The size of the school can be a problem for some people, because it can make you feel lost in an enormous bureaucracy. It worked in my favor, though, because the honors program in my college alone was over five thousand people! I found a pretty big community of intellectually curious people from all over the world. If you want to skate by in easy classes with 700 students and almost no contact with the professor, you can do that. With only a little effort, though, you can take smaller, more challenging and involving classes. There are lots of opportunities here to learn, to have some very enriching experiences, to study abroad, and to have some great internships. A lot of students just go for the drinking and football, though, so you'll have to pick your classes and your living situation carefully, in order to make sure you're with other people who share your commitment (or lack thereof) to your schoolwork. |
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