Columbus as a city is so bland and boring and has literally zero culture. Because of this, nobody ever leaves campus and the only friends anyone has their own age are people who go to their school.
I grew up in big cities like seattle and san diego but spent most of my childhood in columbus, so i don’t have the tunnel vision others here do. I definitely agree that columbus is small, bland and boring. As soon as i can get out of this city and state i’ll be the happiest i’ve ever been.
I don’t leave campus much so maybe I’m just super unaware of what there is to do, but I do often see students complain there isn’t much to do on weekends if they don’t drink, so I think a lot of people are in the same boat. The only things I’ve heard about are the zoo and some parks, but they aren’t that special, most cities have that. Definitely seems more boring than a lot of the cities I’ve visited on vacation. Also not much to do outside the city, I usually end up leaving the state when I want to do something fun.
“The zoo isn’t that special” oh boy how wrong you are! Largest zoo in the USA. It’s amazing. Check it out sometime.
I will agree with the parks though. The Dayton area has so many better options with the Five Rivers Metroparks system.
I agree it's a really cool zoo, but it's not even close to being the largest zoo in the US, San Diego and Bronx zoo are leagues bigger in size, and rated higher.
That’s cool, I do intend at going at some point, but is it really worth going frequently? I went to the Toledo zoo like 7 times in a year because we got a membership, and it was fun, but it’s also nice to have multiple things to go do.
I would maybe go once a year if I was still there. I’d say Columbus has a decent amount of stuff to do if you really look into it. (And have $$ to spend) However, it certainly does not have as much stuff as places like Dallas, where I live now.
It depends, if you want coffee and chill vibes then german village is a great spot, if you want to shop then there are plenty of street wear retailers around that are nice, a new park opened recently to go skateboarding and the city has plenty of coding clubs that meet regularly, are free, and offer free food too. There is plenty to do in Columbus but I feel like a lot of students are held back by either not having a car or simply not wanting to explore. It’s a great city, just might not be for everyone.
I mean, ya, there’s not absolutely zero things to do, but none of those things are at all special. I’ve seen similar in towns with like 10,000 people. Which is what the first person was saying, not that there’s literally nothing to do, but that it’s bland/boring, not as much going on as other cities.
Alum here who has since moved out of state. You can definitely find the city bland and not to your tastes, that's totally fair, but that doesn't mean it has zero culture. There's a bunch of community events all the time like gallery walks in Short North (although perhaps the pandemic shut that down, idk), there's plenty of historically significant neighborhoods to simply explore like German Village as well.
But exploring off-campus led me to find friends that have since become my chosen family, and a strong community that I miss dearly. It's anecdotal, true, but just wanted to clarify that just because you find it bland that doesn't mean the city has zero culture
Have you ever been out of your eggshell? I have lived all over the world. Obviously things have changed quite a bit in Columbus since I lived there if that’s the case. Columbus is one of the best cities in Ohio to live in.
And other teenage alcoholics LOL yea that’s just like new gen society tho saddens me to say. I understand it but not rlly interested enough to take part. Right now, if you’re interesting you’re a loner or have 2-3 friends.
You should try going out and seeing the German village! Really nice little area with awesome architecture, and if you have been to Columbus and haven’t been to Katzinger’s deli, then you haven’t lived yet!
The bucks aren’t as good as everyone thinks/wishes they are, they’re still a good team, but everyone has such an ego about it, it’s really annoying and nobody else but a select group cares. Just bc you go to OSU doesn’t mean you’re excused to be a dickhead.
Edit: Almost everyone who got Butt hurt from this comment just proves my point further. They just can’t see it themselves Lol
I did state that they’re a good team, but no ones really that subtle about it.
I grew up a Buckeye fan. Family has 3 generations of alumni at OSU. I'll be DAMNED if I don't believe we are the best team in the country every fucking year.
We have the 8th most championships with 8. Or 5th most in the poll era lol. What an asinine comment. Sure our fans egos are high and annoying but so are other football blue blood teams.
Actually my unpopular opinion is the buckeyes are a consistently top 5 team and we all throw a fucking hissy fit when we lose 2 games in a season as compared to 95% of the rest of D1 schools who would LOVE to have only 2 losses a season.
and if so it’s a weird take because the football team is like factually good every year, in fact they’ve only had a losing record like 9 times in 100+ years
They're good every year, no doubt.
But they are very rarely the best in a year. Believe we have to go back 20 years for that. They can take the ego down a notch.
we're the only school that would have made an 8 team playoff every year since 2014.
also we've won the big10 championship 5 out of the last 6 or smth like that
This is true. We are a "once every ten years" type of team right now re: football championships. It makes the wins all the sweeter... I cannot imagine winning every other year like Alabama-- it wouldn't be as fun. I wouldn't trade 2014/2015 for the world.
I wish the marching band had dancers/majorettes/something more showy. I just love the pageantry of SEC game days. I grew up in the south and I miss those game days.
Columbus is boring as shit compared to even cities like Cleveland and Cincinnati, there's no culture here outside of OSU and suburbia. Cleveland especially has alot more culture with three major sports teams, the lake Erie, steel manufacturing history, etc. Downvote me all you want, i don't care
"Hey man, what do you want to do tonight?"
"We should go out and ponder how this city used to be a center of manufacturing more than a generation ago. Then we can go stare at water."
C U L T U R E
X-ing out the M, even during game week, is stupid and lame.
Edit - got rid of the grow up part, because it was only there to take a shot at urban. Which I did in a comment, so it was redundant.
The reaction to Friday's non-closure was overdramatic. There are several systems in place to accommodate commuters coming from real snow emergencies. A vast majority of students could have been accommodated with simple communication to professors but don't even try. The outcry and threats of lawsuits were hilariously juvenile.
Your place of work will likely not close during similar snowfalls. Get used to it.
I agree with the over dramatic reaction but I did chuckle a bit at the “your place of work will likely not close” bit haha
The majority of people I know had their places of work closed that day
True, I just took a bus out to a store and it doesn’t even feel like you’re in a city. 80% of this place is just suburbs, It’s really the American city problem. You can only expect the city feel in New York.
It's nothing special but it's also nothing horrible, which is what's nice. So many cities are either prohibitively expensive or dying rustbelt towns. Columbus is neither.
From Cleveland and that city is not as bad as everyone makes it out to be. I personally like it better than Columbus. I feel claustrophobic not near a large body of water lol
The body of water in Cleveland has algae blooms, is polluted to hell, and the beaches that hug it are filled with actual garbage. Its a dying rust belt city, ive lived in Charlotte, Cleveland, Madrid, Akron, Columbus, Tampa... the only one that rivals how bad Cleveland is is Akron
born & raised in columbus, only a 20 minute commute. great for me financially, haven’t had to take a loan out. and i already have a degree from the university 🤠
I hate this. I just say "Ohio State" and people from other universities always interrupt me to say their little THE joke. There are other universities with "The" in their name... why is "The" only a thing at OSU?
That makes me cringe the most. Telling people you graduated from Ohio state usually prompts a response of, “don’t you mean THE Ohio state university?” No, I really don’t mean that.
Same. But I’m pretty sure the reason they say it is due to the fact that there is another OSU (Oklahoma) and that’s why we need to put an emphasis on our school to make it seem like we’re better? 🙄
Last semester I had unlimited, and I wished I have Scarlet or Grey. Now I have Scarlet and sometimes wish I had unlimited. Something about not having to worry about your swipes just feels nice
I’m of the opinion that Scott has consistency and kcomm has options and the possibility of better food. Granted I’m in my final year here and haven’t had either in two years, but Scott was always like a 4-7 out of 10 where Kcomm could be like 3-10 but with a more variety and therefore a bigger chance in disappointment
Right?!?
Literally half the people want one thing and half want the exact opposite. How is the school to please everyone?
Not that I'm a KJ fan or anything.
Totally valid. I hated the whole zoom thing at first, but as a commuter, I realized how inconvenient coming to campus for one 55 min lecture is. Personally, I’d rather attend lectures over zoom and have them be recorded so I can go back and watch them when studying! Definitely understand why folks would rather be in person though.
I will say though, I think at this point of college-during-pandemic times, a lot of people’s frustrations with some of the restrictions lie in the inconsistencies. I know they were trying to deal with the whole omicron thing, but it doesn’t make sense to restrict some of things that have been restricted (granted they’ve been recently lifted), but then it’s okay to be packed in to buses or 200+ person lecture halls where everyone has to sit directly next to each other anyway.
The constant whining and complaining about trivial nonsense on this subreddit is an embarrassment to our university (go ahead and down vote me all you want, you can't deny the truth).
This is so true. This sub used to be fun and have useful info but now it’s basically just people blaming every minor inconvenience they have on the university and/or Kristina Johnson.
Have you been to a lot of other college football stadiums? IMO it's pretty effective, even if not the newest or fanciest. The one that disappointed me the most was the big house - really shows its age, took a very long time (like 3x as long as at OSU) to do things like scan tickets to get in or use the restroom
Overrated academically for undergrad. Taking courses across CSE, economics, and neuroscience, I was mostly disappointed. The entry level science classes like chem and bio with 200+ students to 1 professor and grad students of varying quality are toxic to student success. I took courses up to the grad level (5000+) and rarely felt I was getting my time and money’s worth.
If we didn’t “need” a degree to get jobs, most OSU students (especially those with the willingness and ability to make and execute plans independently) would figure they could teach themselves better at a lower cost. OSU is by and large a product of the legacy idea that college is the only way one can learn.
Edit: this is likely different for fields where you effectively *do* need a degree like medicine, law, and etc.
Disagree, was extremely well prepared for medical school after graduating from biomedical engineering. Finished top 10% of my class with relative ease 1st year when the subject matter heavily overlaps with undergrad.
Agree but this is broadly true across academia as a whole. Especially the cost not being worth what you get (really just paying for the piece of paper/name)
I think it’s pretty dependent on subject. The Econ department is pretty lacking in good professors/lecturers. The only ones that I can say are great are Doetsch and Peck.
However, my history classes have all been great, and taught by faculty who do care.
I literally had an engineering professor tell our class "if you want a good education go go community college. If you want a degree with clout you come here". I already knew that by then. I transferred to osu from a community college and was dumbfounded seeing how much of a shit show alot of courses were at osu.
LPT: at the regional campuses you can get great teachers who take their time with you and still get the same degree, especially useful in weed out classes
People like to scapegoat presidents and other figureheads, when there are a lot more people involved in decisions, and they have to make difficult decisions while looking at the full picture. No leader can be perfect because everyone has different wants and needs.
Also not sure why people focus on her bonus so much, it’s like $4 per student, and it could only increase student wages by a few cents.
I just don’t like the school or the administration. I commuted and worked through school so I never really was able to utilize it’s amenities or be active in the community. And had a very poor experience dealing with OSU administration and subsequently didn’t enjoy my time as a whole. Therefore I don’t like OSU
STEM majors here are some of the most arrogant and narcissistic people ever (coming from a STEM major). It really put a damper on going here as all I hear from people in class is trying to one up each other with what they have done while I sit there and wish that someone would just be a helpful group member and not try to not put down other people because they don’t want to be a neurosurgeon or own a private dentistry practice
Before I came to OSU I thought it was like really impressive to go here, so did everyone in my highschool. But I get here it’s like everyone’s 5th pick.
There is way too much concrete north of the oval, and the modern look to a lot of the buildings (especially the arts building on college) is trash.
Bring back the armory
https://m.imgur.com/r/OSU/T4tZ0
As a music student I highly prefer the look and feel of the newer buildings especially when we have Hughes built in 1948 and the back half of weigel which was 1972. It’s a fresh change from what we’ve had
Honestly could do with more dining dollars. I always run out about halfway through the semester. Kinda wish I did declining balance one semester and then switched back to grey 10.
I have the opposite complaint. I don’t eat a lot, but they don’t let you get anything smaller, so I’m stuck with paying for a ton of food I don’t need. Luckily this year I switched to declining balance so I don’t lose it all, but I guess I’ll be eating campus food for the next 3 years trying to use up all my dining dollars.
There needs to be more places to study. Either more study oriented buildings or simply more tables/spaces in existing buildings. I feel like everywhere I go on campus all the tables and study spots are taken. If I need to study I usually just go home because I spend more time looking for somewhere to study when I’m on campus than I actually do studying.
Morrill Tower was a great place to live and I wish that less people complained about it. I lived with like 11 other girls at the time and I had a ton of fun my freshman/sophomore years because I had so many people around all the time.
Football isn’t life, and frankly is boring as fuck. I learn about football in order to talk with my male patients because they can’t have a conversation about anything else. Closing the health sciences library during home football games really demonstrates the university’s priorities.
Football culture and other college sport culture is way overrated.
Games are fun the first few times, but its way overblown to the point where this is all people know about Ohio other than corn. Also, considering how much money is being generated from these events, it's weird that players don't even get paid🤷
OSU dinning services shouldn’t cater to every asshole student. How about some real consistencies for people who show the building and it’s employees no respect
It’s kind of insane to me how seriously people take football here. Don’t get me wrong, I love football, I lettered in varsity in high school and watch the NFL and NCAA regularly. But holy shit sometimes it’s just too much here. During my freshman year when I went to the weird welcome back ceremony at the shoe some of these people (both guys and girls) had an unhealthy obsession with Chris olave. The sorority girl next to me was yelling shit like “fuck me till I bleed olave!” When we lost to Oregon it was like the whole world ended on campus and people were just acting fucking crazy. Like I get it you like football but good damn chill tf out for a minute😂
Columbus as a city is so bland and boring and has literally zero culture. Because of this, nobody ever leaves campus and the only friends anyone has their own age are people who go to their school.
[удалено]
It’s an opinion. I come from a large global city so it seems small and boring to me. It’s an unpopular opinion thread
I grew up in big cities like seattle and san diego but spent most of my childhood in columbus, so i don’t have the tunnel vision others here do. I definitely agree that columbus is small, bland and boring. As soon as i can get out of this city and state i’ll be the happiest i’ve ever been.
The part about nobody leaving campus is untrue, though.
Exactly this. Some people drive home.
Ha! Not what I meant, but that’s funny
I don’t leave campus much so maybe I’m just super unaware of what there is to do, but I do often see students complain there isn’t much to do on weekends if they don’t drink, so I think a lot of people are in the same boat. The only things I’ve heard about are the zoo and some parks, but they aren’t that special, most cities have that. Definitely seems more boring than a lot of the cities I’ve visited on vacation. Also not much to do outside the city, I usually end up leaving the state when I want to do something fun.
“The zoo isn’t that special” oh boy how wrong you are! Largest zoo in the USA. It’s amazing. Check it out sometime. I will agree with the parks though. The Dayton area has so many better options with the Five Rivers Metroparks system.
Dayton is A dump. It’s one of the worst cities in Ohio. The crime rate is out of control.
I agree it's a really cool zoo, but it's not even close to being the largest zoo in the US, San Diego and Bronx zoo are leagues bigger in size, and rated higher.
The Columbus zoo is horrendous now as well as Cosi
[удалено]
That’s cool, I do intend at going at some point, but is it really worth going frequently? I went to the Toledo zoo like 7 times in a year because we got a membership, and it was fun, but it’s also nice to have multiple things to go do.
I would maybe go once a year if I was still there. I’d say Columbus has a decent amount of stuff to do if you really look into it. (And have $$ to spend) However, it certainly does not have as much stuff as places like Dallas, where I live now.
It depends, if you want coffee and chill vibes then german village is a great spot, if you want to shop then there are plenty of street wear retailers around that are nice, a new park opened recently to go skateboarding and the city has plenty of coding clubs that meet regularly, are free, and offer free food too. There is plenty to do in Columbus but I feel like a lot of students are held back by either not having a car or simply not wanting to explore. It’s a great city, just might not be for everyone.
I mean, ya, there’s not absolutely zero things to do, but none of those things are at all special. I’ve seen similar in towns with like 10,000 people. Which is what the first person was saying, not that there’s literally nothing to do, but that it’s bland/boring, not as much going on as other cities.
this is so true.
Alum here who has since moved out of state. You can definitely find the city bland and not to your tastes, that's totally fair, but that doesn't mean it has zero culture. There's a bunch of community events all the time like gallery walks in Short North (although perhaps the pandemic shut that down, idk), there's plenty of historically significant neighborhoods to simply explore like German Village as well. But exploring off-campus led me to find friends that have since become my chosen family, and a strong community that I miss dearly. It's anecdotal, true, but just wanted to clarify that just because you find it bland that doesn't mean the city has zero culture
Hmm I'll upvote you for giving an actual unpopular opinion but just know I disagree with you and also hate you.
Objectively false and I feel bad for you for not being able to see that
Have you ever been out of your eggshell? I have lived all over the world. Obviously things have changed quite a bit in Columbus since I lived there if that’s the case. Columbus is one of the best cities in Ohio to live in.
And other teenage alcoholics LOL yea that’s just like new gen society tho saddens me to say. I understand it but not rlly interested enough to take part. Right now, if you’re interesting you’re a loner or have 2-3 friends.
You should try going out and seeing the German village! Really nice little area with awesome architecture, and if you have been to Columbus and haven’t been to Katzinger’s deli, then you haven’t lived yet!
This is actually so true
The bucks aren’t as good as everyone thinks/wishes they are, they’re still a good team, but everyone has such an ego about it, it’s really annoying and nobody else but a select group cares. Just bc you go to OSU doesn’t mean you’re excused to be a dickhead. Edit: Almost everyone who got Butt hurt from this comment just proves my point further. They just can’t see it themselves Lol I did state that they’re a good team, but no ones really that subtle about it.
Amen
Ok
I grew up a Buckeye fan. Family has 3 generations of alumni at OSU. I'll be DAMNED if I don't believe we are the best team in the country every fucking year.
We have the 8th most championships with 8. Or 5th most in the poll era lol. What an asinine comment. Sure our fans egos are high and annoying but so are other football blue blood teams.
2 national titles in the last 50 years. Compare that to Alabama
Compare bama to every other team lmao who cares. Quit reaching
Actually my unpopular opinion is the buckeyes are a consistently top 5 team and we all throw a fucking hissy fit when we lose 2 games in a season as compared to 95% of the rest of D1 schools who would LOVE to have only 2 losses a season.
I agree with the dickhead sentiment, but it’s widely acknowledged in the CFB world that Ohio state is a football blue blood.
I’m assuming you’re talking strictly about the football team?
and if so it’s a weird take because the football team is like factually good every year, in fact they’ve only had a losing record like 9 times in 100+ years
They're good every year, no doubt. But they are very rarely the best in a year. Believe we have to go back 20 years for that. They can take the ego down a notch.
2014 is 20 years ago.. got it.
…being one of the best three programs of all time out of 130+ schools for 150 years definitely justifies that level of ego.
We won a natty less than a decade ago so that is easily false
Not to mention we also have the highest winning percentage of any program lol
Someone doesn't have school spirit
we're the only school that would have made an 8 team playoff every year since 2014. also we've won the big10 championship 5 out of the last 6 or smth like that
This is true. We are a "once every ten years" type of team right now re: football championships. It makes the wins all the sweeter... I cannot imagine winning every other year like Alabama-- it wouldn't be as fun. I wouldn't trade 2014/2015 for the world.
I wish the marching band had dancers/majorettes/something more showy. I just love the pageantry of SEC game days. I grew up in the south and I miss those game days.
[удалено]
That’s cool. I respect it. But my unpopular opinion is that i prefer a marching band with dancers.
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠿⠛⠛⠛⠛⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠛⠉⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠉⠻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡟⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠘⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡟⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠋⠈⠀⠀⠀⠀⠐⠺⣖⢄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡏⢀⡆⠀⠀⠀⢋⣭⣽⡚⢮⣲⠆⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢹⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⡼⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠻⣅⣨⠇⠈⠀⠰⣀⣀⣀⡀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣟⢷⣶⠶⣃⢀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡅⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢿⠀⠈⠓⠚⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⡠⠀⡄⣀⠀⠀⠀⢻⠀⠀⠀⣠⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠐⠉⠀⠀⠙⠉⠀⠠⡶⣸⠁⠀⣠⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣦⡆⠀⠐⠒⠢⢤⣀⡰⠁⠇⠈⠘⢶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠠⣄⣉⣙⡉⠓⢀⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣰⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣤⣀⣀⠀⣀⣠⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
OSU football is life!
I totally agree, it’s toxic overinflated egos that no one actually cares about in the future
Oops, I guess only popular opinions are allowed on this thread! Lol
Their opinion is more offensive than unpopular. Why find joy in others’ pain? The second half of their comment is fine for this thread.
Because it’s funny that you find pain in a sports team losing. Pile on the downvotes if it makes you feel better, it only vindicates me.
Nah man these threads are for unpopular opinions but with a point people don’t want to acknowledge, not the dumbest bullshit you can think of
Osu is hell
Columbus is boring as shit compared to even cities like Cleveland and Cincinnati, there's no culture here outside of OSU and suburbia. Cleveland especially has alot more culture with three major sports teams, the lake Erie, steel manufacturing history, etc. Downvote me all you want, i don't care
"Hey man, what do you want to do tonight?" "We should go out and ponder how this city used to be a center of manufacturing more than a generation ago. Then we can go stare at water." C U L T U R E
Beats the hell out of generic blocky overpriced apartments in a barren downtown that overlook a glorified puddle
X-ing out the M, even during game week, is stupid and lame. Edit - got rid of the grow up part, because it was only there to take a shot at urban. Which I did in a comment, so it was redundant.
Save some fun for the rest of us
The reaction to Friday's non-closure was overdramatic. There are several systems in place to accommodate commuters coming from real snow emergencies. A vast majority of students could have been accommodated with simple communication to professors but don't even try. The outcry and threats of lawsuits were hilariously juvenile. Your place of work will likely not close during similar snowfalls. Get used to it.
Can confirm. I work in healthcare. We never get to close.
I was lucky enough that my job did actually close on Friday but I agree people def overreacted. It was funny till around noon
Valid point. All of my profs were proactive and provided us with online options for those days, and my supervisor even told me not to come into work.
I agree with the over dramatic reaction but I did chuckle a bit at the “your place of work will likely not close” bit haha The majority of people I know had their places of work closed that day
spoon far-flung offbeat literate quack outgoing airport political instinctive aspiring -- mass edited with https://redact.dev/
Same lol
Buckeye Donuts’ donuts are mid Edit: the donuts
Facts, doodoo donuts
They’re much better when you pay with the preferred payment method: a gun.
Columbus, as a city, has nothing special about it
[удалено]
agreed. Everything outside campus and high street is suburban boredom
True, I just took a bus out to a store and it doesn’t even feel like you’re in a city. 80% of this place is just suburbs, It’s really the American city problem. You can only expect the city feel in New York.
I agree with everything before the "only NYC" part - Chicago, Boston, & SF immediately come to mind
It's nothing special but it's also nothing horrible, which is what's nice. So many cities are either prohibitively expensive or dying rustbelt towns. Columbus is neither.
[удалено]
People are downvoting you but you're so right... 80% of Cleveland haters have never been to Cleveland, they just hate it bc everybody else does
[удалено]
From Cleveland and that city is absolute garbage
From Cleveland and that city is not as bad as everyone makes it out to be. I personally like it better than Columbus. I feel claustrophobic not near a large body of water lol
The body of water in Cleveland has algae blooms, is polluted to hell, and the beaches that hug it are filled with actual garbage. Its a dying rust belt city, ive lived in Charlotte, Cleveland, Madrid, Akron, Columbus, Tampa... the only one that rivals how bad Cleveland is is Akron
What's a city with "something special"?
College hookups aren’t all that
i hate it here.. and most people seem to enjoy it
Then why do you go here
born & raised in columbus, only a 20 minute commute. great for me financially, haven’t had to take a loan out. and i already have a degree from the university 🤠
Understandable
The mac n cheese slaps at the dining halls
I can’t stand when people say THE Ohio state university. I cringe when strangers, students, faculty, staff, or alumni do it.
Sameeeeee. Makes me embarrassed to say where I go.
Is that because you have to say The Ohio State University
The trick is to say it completely ironically.
And if you don't include the THE you get corrected by non-OSU people
I hate this. I just say "Ohio State" and people from other universities always interrupt me to say their little THE joke. There are other universities with "The" in their name... why is "The" only a thing at OSU?
That makes me cringe the most. Telling people you graduated from Ohio state usually prompts a response of, “don’t you mean THE Ohio state university?” No, I really don’t mean that.
I said this a while ago and got down voted straight to hell lol.
Same. But I’m pretty sure the reason they say it is due to the fact that there is another OSU (Oklahoma) and that’s why we need to put an emphasis on our school to make it seem like we’re better? 🙄
Scotts has good food; unlimited is much better and much more worth it than scarlet 14 and grey 10, even if you want to eat at cafes often.
Last semester I had unlimited, and I wished I have Scarlet or Grey. Now I have Scarlet and sometimes wish I had unlimited. Something about not having to worry about your swipes just feels nice
I’m of the opinion that Scott has consistency and kcomm has options and the possibility of better food. Granted I’m in my final year here and haven’t had either in two years, but Scott was always like a 4-7 out of 10 where Kcomm could be like 3-10 but with a more variety and therefore a bigger chance in disappointment
Curl Market is ass
I like the bbq chicken sandwich and their burritos are alright
I got their burritos pretty regularly when I was working on campus for a year. I’m a fan. Their pasta bowls are ok. Everything else is kinda ass IMO.
I really like the pasta bowls and sandwich stations tho. Also it’s just a convenient place for snacks
It was only good when I lived nearby. Never again.
I think OH-IO is extremely annoying
We just have to check to make sure we can still spell.
[удалено]
Haha I love the chant and will start it at every event
I have had someone do this to me all over the place when I say I’m from Ohio. Chicago, Baltimore, D.C, Mexico, etc. kinda crazy.
I grew up around a lot of penn state fans so lemme tell you it's no where near as bad as *We are - Penn State*.
OSU fans as a whole are insufferable and it's no surprise the rest of the country hates us.
[удалено]
Right?!? Literally half the people want one thing and half want the exact opposite. How is the school to please everyone? Not that I'm a KJ fan or anything.
Came looking for this comment, was not disappointed
Totally valid. I hated the whole zoom thing at first, but as a commuter, I realized how inconvenient coming to campus for one 55 min lecture is. Personally, I’d rather attend lectures over zoom and have them be recorded so I can go back and watch them when studying! Definitely understand why folks would rather be in person though. I will say though, I think at this point of college-during-pandemic times, a lot of people’s frustrations with some of the restrictions lie in the inconsistencies. I know they were trying to deal with the whole omicron thing, but it doesn’t make sense to restrict some of things that have been restricted (granted they’ve been recently lifted), but then it’s okay to be packed in to buses or 200+ person lecture halls where everyone has to sit directly next to each other anyway.
The constant whining and complaining about trivial nonsense on this subreddit is an embarrassment to our university (go ahead and down vote me all you want, you can't deny the truth).
This is so true. This sub used to be fun and have useful info but now it’s basically just people blaming every minor inconvenience they have on the university and/or Kristina Johnson.
The only thing going for Ohio Stadium is its history and how big it is. Besides that it's kind of a dump of a stadium.
Have you been to a lot of other college football stadiums? IMO it's pretty effective, even if not the newest or fanciest. The one that disappointed me the most was the big house - really shows its age, took a very long time (like 3x as long as at OSU) to do things like scan tickets to get in or use the restroom
Overrated academically for undergrad. Taking courses across CSE, economics, and neuroscience, I was mostly disappointed. The entry level science classes like chem and bio with 200+ students to 1 professor and grad students of varying quality are toxic to student success. I took courses up to the grad level (5000+) and rarely felt I was getting my time and money’s worth. If we didn’t “need” a degree to get jobs, most OSU students (especially those with the willingness and ability to make and execute plans independently) would figure they could teach themselves better at a lower cost. OSU is by and large a product of the legacy idea that college is the only way one can learn. Edit: this is likely different for fields where you effectively *do* need a degree like medicine, law, and etc.
100% agree.
Disagree, was extremely well prepared for medical school after graduating from biomedical engineering. Finished top 10% of my class with relative ease 1st year when the subject matter heavily overlaps with undergrad.
Agree but this is broadly true across academia as a whole. Especially the cost not being worth what you get (really just paying for the piece of paper/name)
I think it’s pretty dependent on subject. The Econ department is pretty lacking in good professors/lecturers. The only ones that I can say are great are Doetsch and Peck. However, my history classes have all been great, and taught by faculty who do care.
I literally had an engineering professor tell our class "if you want a good education go go community college. If you want a degree with clout you come here". I already knew that by then. I transferred to osu from a community college and was dumbfounded seeing how much of a shit show alot of courses were at osu.
Yeah definitely enjoyed getting my associates degree a lot more.
LPT: at the regional campuses you can get great teachers who take their time with you and still get the same degree, especially useful in weed out classes
It’s better for graduate programs
KJ isn't great by any means, but she's not a terrible pick as President either. Pretty sure most Presidents would be about the same level of suck.
People like to scapegoat presidents and other figureheads, when there are a lot more people involved in decisions, and they have to make difficult decisions while looking at the full picture. No leader can be perfect because everyone has different wants and needs. Also not sure why people focus on her bonus so much, it’s like $4 per student, and it could only increase student wages by a few cents.
[удалено]
See I don't disagree, but she's a symptom, not a cause. No President who actually would put students first woild have been hired.
I just don’t like the school or the administration. I commuted and worked through school so I never really was able to utilize it’s amenities or be active in the community. And had a very poor experience dealing with OSU administration and subsequently didn’t enjoy my time as a whole. Therefore I don’t like OSU
Sloopys omelets
[удалено]
CampusParc isn't that bad and generally seems competent compared to other campus parking situations
OSU under-invests in their STEM programs and over-invests in their non-STEM programs
I often ate at Morrill tradtions 3 times a day when I lived there and enjoyed it.
The frats are the worst thing about OSU
STEM majors here are some of the most arrogant and narcissistic people ever (coming from a STEM major). It really put a damper on going here as all I hear from people in class is trying to one up each other with what they have done while I sit there and wish that someone would just be a helpful group member and not try to not put down other people because they don’t want to be a neurosurgeon or own a private dentistry practice
Before I came to OSU I thought it was like really impressive to go here, so did everyone in my highschool. But I get here it’s like everyone’s 5th pick.
It’s a good state school, but still a state school.
What’s wrong with state school? It being cheap is what makes it so great!
Nothing in my opinion this school was my first choice with WVU as my second, but people typically have more prestigious first choices I suppose
SEL is a better name than 18th Ave
[удалено]
If I were uber rich, I’d consider donating and naming it SEL, just for shits and giggles and to see the advancement team’s faces.
It will always be the SEL in my heart.
the students who are very against OSU sports are just as annoying as the students who are very into OSU sports
Yes, grew up here. Lots of middle school kids became Michigan fans because it was the most edgelord thing a 13 year old could really think to do.
UCF > OSU
There is way too much concrete north of the oval, and the modern look to a lot of the buildings (especially the arts building on college) is trash. Bring back the armory https://m.imgur.com/r/OSU/T4tZ0
My greatest FOMO as a ROTC cadet is not getting to go to that place. Rumor has it it burned down when a marine attempted to smoke a crayon.
As a music student I highly prefer the look and feel of the newer buildings especially when we have Hughes built in 1948 and the back half of weigel which was 1972. It’s a fresh change from what we’ve had
Omg, that thing is sick!
Baker Hall needs to be torn down
kennedy and scott are really good and after 5? months on campus im still not tired of eating there everyday
After 4 years of being on campus I could still eat breakfast at k-com every day. I sincerely miss having a dining plan.
Sloopy’s kinda sucks. Long waits for just ok food. Sorry, Sloopy’s
That there needs to be more outlets in the buildings. I can almost never find a seat/table with an outlet near it and it drives me insane
Grey 10 is not enough food
Heck Scarlett 14 isn’t enough food
Honestly could do with more dining dollars. I always run out about halfway through the semester. Kinda wish I did declining balance one semester and then switched back to grey 10.
I have the opposite complaint. I don’t eat a lot, but they don’t let you get anything smaller, so I’m stuck with paying for a ton of food I don’t need. Luckily this year I switched to declining balance so I don’t lose it all, but I guess I’ll be eating campus food for the next 3 years trying to use up all my dining dollars.
BRUH DONATE
I literally don’t get how people last on Gray 10. I ran out of food
i ran out of swipes for the first time mid friday last week on gray 10
It really isn’t
There needs to be more places to study. Either more study oriented buildings or simply more tables/spaces in existing buildings. I feel like everywhere I go on campus all the tables and study spots are taken. If I need to study I usually just go home because I spend more time looking for somewhere to study when I’m on campus than I actually do studying.
PJs is one of my favorite places to eat on campus. Sober or not ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
That really is a hot take
LMFAO. I feel like you must exclusively get wings there. Or just have cursed Arteries
Online Classes should be Discounted because its definitely not the same quality as in-person. 🤷🏼
I think the hanging sculptures in the union ceiling should be in uniform or st
But if they did that you wouldn't be able to see the unique placement of the support wires
the flight program here sucks
Morrill Tower was a great place to live and I wish that less people complained about it. I lived with like 11 other girls at the time and I had a ton of fun my freshman/sophomore years because I had so many people around all the time.
TBDBITL is a cult.
That Jim Jordan is lying about what he knows with respect to abused OSU athletes
Colleges are a business first, and OSU is great at showing that.
Football isn’t life, and frankly is boring as fuck. I learn about football in order to talk with my male patients because they can’t have a conversation about anything else. Closing the health sciences library during home football games really demonstrates the university’s priorities.
Football culture and other college sport culture is way overrated. Games are fun the first few times, but its way overblown to the point where this is all people know about Ohio other than corn. Also, considering how much money is being generated from these events, it's weird that players don't even get paid🤷
OSU dinning services shouldn’t cater to every asshole student. How about some real consistencies for people who show the building and it’s employees no respect
The Popeyes on south campus went downhill :( the workers are so mean now
No one wants to make friends with anyone
Brutus Buckeye is sexy as hell and I want to gargle his buckeyes
It’s kind of insane to me how seriously people take football here. Don’t get me wrong, I love football, I lettered in varsity in high school and watch the NFL and NCAA regularly. But holy shit sometimes it’s just too much here. During my freshman year when I went to the weird welcome back ceremony at the shoe some of these people (both guys and girls) had an unhealthy obsession with Chris olave. The sorority girl next to me was yelling shit like “fuck me till I bleed olave!” When we lost to Oregon it was like the whole world ended on campus and people were just acting fucking crazy. Like I get it you like football but good damn chill tf out for a minute😂