Marquette University Top Questions

What's the one thing you wish someone had told you about freshman year?

Henry

Before coming to Marquette University I wished I would have known that there was going to be a lake near by. This would have impacted my decision even more about coming to Marquette or not. I also wish that I would have known that the professors at Marquette were friendly and easy to talk to along with being very helpful.

Catherine

You'll meet people that will become your life-long friends.

Elizabeth

I wish I had discovered ear plugs sooner. Coming from a rural town to the middle of a city it was an adjustment to get used to the noises native to this area especially in a high traffic area.

Lauren

n/a

Jennifer

I wish I had known how competitive it would be so that I would have applied myself more during high school. Otherwise, nothing has shocked me in a negative way, and what I've learned has been a positive, growing experience.

James

a lot of the students come from the same areas. Like, a suburbe of Chicago, some place in Wisconsin, or even Milwaukee itself.

Kaley

You may not make friends in class, but don't worry. Friends will come. Orientation is slightly overwhelming and made me really homesick, but once school started and I got into my routine I found wonderful friends who I can go to for anything. I wish I had known what I wanted to major in because I switched many times, but that is the nature of college, so don't stress!

Tracy

A lot of walking, especially in the cold winter

Molly

I wish I knew how much time playing a varsity sport would take up outside of practices. Soccer came first, and then school. The program forgot the meaning of a "student-athlete."

Susan

That I didn't need to be a biology major to become a dentist. I could have majored in anything.

Claire

How hard I was actually going to have to work in order to maintain the same GPA in high school.

Gina

There is nothing that I wish I had known before I came to Marquette. All the things that I have learned so far and come to know I am glad that I've learned and would not have it any other way.

Jessica

I wish I had known that this school offers zero diversity. If you are not a white, conservative, heterosexual, upper-middle class catholic who went to private school, you'll have a hard time fitting in at Marquette. The people are friendly enough, but they're about as bland as oatmeal. Coming from a very diverse high school, Marquette was a (lack of) culture shock for me.

Meghan

The surrounding neighborhoods

Cooper

fdsa

Jake

More about the city and what to do on campus

Cheryl

Once you were into the nursing program, it was impossible to transfer out.

Steven

The above answer, wish it was a little more real-friendly instead of superficial-friendly

Kimberly

I wish I had known that the majority of people here are very clique-y and come from wealthy backgrounds.

William

The weather patterns. It gets cold here...really cold.

Kelsey

How bad the financial Aid department does not want to work

Mary

That grades aren't everything.

Cory

I wish I would have known how difficult the chemisty, calculus, and biology classes are so that i could have taken other college classes in high school at the university in my hometown to be ahead of the game.