Ohio State University

Date: Aug 08 2012
Major: Language - French/Spanish/etc. (This Major's Salary over time)
I would strongly recommend any current high school student that is about to go into college to NOT attend OSU. My entire experience at OSU was absurd. When I was first accepted, I was incredibly proud and excited. I was originally going to go to CSCC for my gen. eds. and then transfer to OSU (mostly to save money). However, I chose to go to OSU and I sincerely regret this decision. I went to OSU with a positive and open attitude. I could not wait to get involved in the campus community and meet my professors. From day one, my experience was everything but pleasant.

I had an advisor simply not show up to an appointment I had scheduled with him (I didn't live on campus, I had to leave early for work and use extra gas). He never even apologized. I was re-assigned a new advisor and when I showed up to her walk-in hours, she was not there and the staff was very rude when I asked if she was going to be back anytime soon. When I gave up and met with a general advisor she did not listen to a word I said. I asked her what kind of career options I was looking at in regard to my major, but that I was NOT interested in teaching. She cut me off and told me about the great education program they have at OSU if I was interested in teaching. I was literally dumb-founded. I gave up on that avenue of information and asked her to show/help me lay out my four-year projection plan. She tossed two giant packets at me and said they were the list of classes I would need. One of the packets was for the semester conversion and when I asked her to go over which classes would be affected greatly by the conversion she said something about everything not being quite done yet.

I had a French teacher tell my entire class we

it would do us some good to get some culture

in a condescending tone. I had a Linguistics professor who didn't speak English very well and actually deducted points from my tests because I answered with how I as an English speaker would phonetically pronounce words. I had to challenge her on why she took away my points and told her how I pronounced the word. She also frequently needed to make test corrections for the whole class and almost didn't give back all of our tests before the final exam.

The campus is beautiful and yes, there are many things to do downtown. However, for the expensive tuition (not including a dorm, a meal plan, books, etc) and being treated worse than I have ever been treated by any educational system, having a "pretty" campus simply does not cut it.

I honestly do not understand how so many of the faculty that chose to go into the educational field could be so unprofessional and rude. I was honestly excited about what I was going to learn at OSU. Sadly, I left broke, insulted, and in broken spirits.