University of Delaware Top Questions

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

Mark

I was I new how musch financial aid I was getting. I also wish that I could have got A RA position in a dorm

Lauren

I wish I had known that the campus wasn't as racially diverse as it claimed to be.

Kayla

I wish I knew that it had such a great acedemic reputation in other states. I wish I knew how beautiful the campus is. I wish I knew that everyone is always drinking.

David

I would have liked to know that the school tries to rip students/parents off on a variety of miscelleanous things (random fees, parking, replacements for things around the dorm, ext.)

Alexandra

I wish i had known how hard the course load would be. I was a straight a student and now im pulling a 3.2 and studying my heart out. I wish I had better prepared myself in high school and taken more advanced placement classes.

Rachael

Nothing, it's a normal school with no surprises.

Greg

I wish that I had known that the Ray Street Dorms are dramtically different than any normal dorm. I wish i knew how g.d. hot and humid it became in the summer. I wish i knew that the engineering curricula was ridgid and difficult to do if you miss a class.

Ryan

What I wanted to do with my life.

John

i knew everything there was to know grew up in the same city as the university

Lisa

How much extra work I would have to put into my classes.

Steven

I wish I had known how unhelpful the professors are. They do not care if the students understand the material or not. Definitely a waste of money because I am not learning like I had in high school.

Megan

That I should become more involved early on and not wait for others to encourage me to become involved.

Stephen

I wish I knew how much of a focus there would be on alcohol on the weekends. As someone who is permanently on medication, I cannot drink. So this makes my weekends less than fun when compared with my friends. I'm perpetually the "sober" guy, and I feel left out of the fun on a lot of Friday and Saturday (and yes, sometimes Thursday) nights. It's really not that big of a deal, it would've just been nice to know in advance.

Katie

I wish I would have known how hard the classes were beforehand so I would not have slacked off so much first semester.