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<p>@beingbored: Football tickets are usually around $35 per ticket. On quarters it wasn’t really hard to get them as long as you paid attention, knew when your order window was, and got them THEN.</p>

<p>Besides football and basketball, all tickets are free to OSU students with a valid BuckID. Here is a listing of free sporting events: [OhioStateBuckeyes.com</a> - The Official Athletic site of The Ohio State University - Tickets](<a href=“Ohio State Buckeyes | Ohio State University Athletics”>Ohio State Buckeyes | Ohio State University Athletics)</p>

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<p>You were a business student so I’m guessing you probably took most of the classes I will take during my freshman year. How easy are freshmen classes in general? What were the hardest ones you had to take?</p>

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<p>Not sure if you’ve already gotten this question, but is it a bad idea to be an honors student living in regular housing? I know the point of honors housing is to provide a better academic environment, but I’ve heard from a few friends there that regular housing seems a lot better (socially). Would I have a hard time balancing schoolwork and social life if I live there instead of in honors?</p>

<p>Also, do you know anything about the Neuroscience majors there (is the major considered extremely difficult, moderately difficult, etc.)?</p>

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<p>What’s the dorm situation on campus like? I’m sure this has been asked a dozen times, but specifically dorms in close proximity to the music building would be awesome. Thanks!</p>

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<p>What are the options for dorms on North campus for sophomores? It seems like most are for freshmen or living communities. Just looking for 2nd year living arrangements for the normal student.</p>

<p>Thanks</p>

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<p>Coola426- most business students just take GECs and a few business pre-reqs their freshman year, rather than starting with actual business classes. You’ll take a few classes in math, natural sciences, social sciences/ humanities, and macro and micro economics. </p>

<p>Here is the list of your options: <a href=“http://fisher.osu.edu/supplements/10/7487/Gen%20Ed.pdf[/url]”>http://fisher.osu.edu/supplements/10/7487/Gen%20Ed.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>Here is the listed degree requirements for business majors: [Fisher</a> College of Business | Degree Requirements](<a href=“http://www.fisher.osu.edu/undergraduate/academics/degree-requirements/]Fisher”>Degree Requirements | Fisher College of Business) </p>

<p>None of these are meant to be especially difficult, as they are freshmen-level courses, and are largely introductory. If you choose to take a calculus course more difficult than business calc, you may find that challenging, and some students find the one CS course business students are required to take difficult. </p>

<p>Afrojack- I lived in an honors dorm (Lincoln), as does my freshman brother (Taylor), and several of my friends were RAs in non-honors dorms (Smith-Steeb, Canfield), so I can compare my experience to how they describe theirs. Honors students do tend to party less, have harder or more demanding majors, and thus spend more time studying. Most of them are perfectly normal, but in any dorm you do get socially awkward kids too. I think in the honors dorms the number of socially awkward students is higher, but I still partied with my honors dorm friends around once a weekend and had a really great experience. Plenty of us were nerds, but still friendly and fun. My brother is more of an introvert, and has done less partying, but I think that is more his choice than anything. His roommate who is rushing a fraternity goes out more often. Overall, I think the best part of living in an honors dorm is the chance to make friends with similarly smart and high-achieving students. I remain close friends with several of the girls I met in my freshman year dorm today, 3 years later. </p>

<p>My friends who have been RAs have said that there can be more drama to deal with in the non-honors dorms, because there is more drinking, more drug use, and generally more loudness. My close friend who has RAed for three years now has had to call the ambulances a few times when her residents drank to the point of alcohol poisoning or unconsciousness. To my knowledge, that never happened in my dorm while I was there. There are still quiet hours, and if your roommates or hallmates are too loud, there is always the library or other quiet places you can go to for studying.</p>

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<p>Hi, i was wondering if it is possible to appeal into OSU. i had just received my rejection letter. MY SAT:2100, ACT:31, GPA:unknown as my school doesn’t do GPA but I got ABBBB for my GCE A levels. I am an ohio resident by the way but i had my education overseas,in singapore, where we do GCE O and A levels. Does the admissions know about the singapore education system as I feel that the reason I had been rejected might be due to the lack of information on the singapore education system. Thus, they might not be able to determine if I had met their HS criteria? Also, Is OSU need blind or aware as I come from a less well-to-do family with income of apprx 15k</p>

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<p>@NervousNellie1</p>

<p>I know that North Campus housing has been changed recently, but I would HIGHLY recommend finding a place that’s a 2 person super double. Drackett used to offer that, I think they are all quads now, but call housing and see what buildings offer that option. Super doubles are great because it’s divided into two rooms (living / sleeping), the beds don’t have to be lofted, private bath, and way more space than a regular, freshmen double</p>

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<p>@invaliderror, give admissions a call. They would be able to help on that [Future</a> Students - The Ohio State University](<a href=“http://www.osu.edu/futurestudents]Future”>Future Students | The Ohio State University)</p>

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<p>How do most people dress like at OSU?? I’ve heard different things from OSU being pretty pretty to being quite laid back. Are there a lot of preppy dressing kids or hipsters etc.? Or can you find almost every type of dress style.</p>

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<p>@coola426 – there is every type of dress style at Ohio state, it really just depends.</p>

<p>Some people dress up nice to class every day
Some people (like me) were just jeans/shorts and a t-shirt
Some people, especially in morning classes, wore pajamas / sweatpants</p>

<p>There’s a little bit of everything at Ohio State, and this is no exception</p>

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<p>**wore. My bad</p>

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<p>Do you know anything about Smith-Steeb or Park-Stradley hall? Those are my top two choices for housing and was wondering if you’d had any experience with them or heard from other people what they were like.</p>

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<p>@offthewall1979: While I did comment on South campus / my Siebert experience a while back on this thread, I know that the residence halls you are talking about are newly renovated…when I lived on South they were all separate buildings, so I’m not sure what they’re like these days.</p>

<p>My comments about living on South in general should still apply though!</p>

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<p>I want to live on North campus again next year but don’t have anyone in mind to room with. I definitely want to live with another sophomore, and have other sophomores in the dorm with me, but i dont know which dorm is primarily sophomore on north campus. Is there a sophomore dorm on North campus, or should I apply to Taylor Tower again and just hope I get put on a floor with sophomores?</p>

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<p>It seems like most of the time sophmores and freshmen are kept in seperate rooms. There could be a mix on each floor though. I live in the residence on 10th this year and that seems to be true. I’m not sure about north but on south most sophmores are either here or in morrison.</p>

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<p>How does orientation and such work? What classes do you generally take freshman year if you haven’t declared a major? Do you have any freedom in terms of what to take if you’re interested in a few different areas, but haven’t officially declared a major?</p>

<p>Oh, and how would orientation work if I’m gone for every date? I’m on tour from early june to early august, where all the orientation dates are.</p>

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<p>When you fill out the housing contract, does it ask you to rank dorms in order of preference, and then room type within that dorm?</p>

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<p>How difficult is it to get a single dorm your freshman year? I’d like to share a dorm with another person, but I am extremely claustrophobic and think it would be better for me to have my own dorm.</p>

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<p>I really like the 1 person room in Lanes Avenue Residence Hall</p>