<p>*It is located in Tallahassee, a wonderfully complex city that features, beauty, culture, history, education and diversity.
* It is the oldest university in Florida. The history of FSU is deeply intertwined with the history of Florida from the earliest days to today. The passion and cares of students across the years are richly revealed in the history for Florida State, the paths students walk today are the same as those taken by their ancestors.
* I love the campus. It is fairly compact and built onto the rolling hills of Tallahassee. A short walk downtown and you are in the center of government for Florida.
* The diversity and excellence of programs is evident as you cut through the College of Music building where often the impossibly talented students are heard rehearsing and practicing. Free concerts and other performances are plentiful and professional. You may then catch students of the sciences scurrying from building to building in a competitive rush to class and labs. Business students and philosophy majors are often heard in spirited debates over this bit of detail or that nuance, often using jargon and acronyms that might as well be Greek. Social science and religion majors in emphatically try to redress issues in society while not far away ROTC leaders muster students into formation.
* On football game days the excitement is palpable everywhere on campus and in restaurants with garnet and gold overwhelming all manner of dress from the very young to the quite old in the teeming thousands of alumni, students and fans. A win brings joy; defeat a heavy silence and hushed tones as in a funeral home. Favorite restaurants are packed and parking becomes quite an adventure.
* Outside campus are the secret sinks to swim in, with cold fresh water below and Florida heat and sunshine above the surface. The hard to find two-lane country canopy roads that go for miles and reveal little treasures in country stores and rural life.
* The structured insanity of exam week with endless cups of coffee and hurried meals and the rush of relief when all the work is done and the books can finally be closed for a while.
* The frolic of a keg party that is free when you have no money for much fun. The studied drive for a piece of pizza from Momo's or barbecue from Jim and Milt's. Pounding music and spontaneous sports on Landis Green.</p>
<p>Yep. :)</p>
<p>(I posted this elsewhere, but maybe we could continue with additional perspectives.)</p>
<p>-people don’t wear jean shorts.
-it’s not located in Hogtown.
-cow-tipping is NOT our favorite pass-time.
-the grads don’t end up at Wal-Mart.
-our football players don’t carry AK’s.
-our girls have all their teeth.
-we don’t have clowns like dabigdawg annoying us all year long.</p>
<p>I like how the people that go there are all humble; not arrogant jackasses.</p>
<p>I like how it’s located in the state’s capital; plenty of opportunity.</p>
<p>I like how the athletics program is back on the rise in both football and especially
basketball.</p>
<p>I like how the freshman class this year is going to be 59 percent women (and are quite good looking I might add)</p>
<p>I like how when I where an FSU shirt, the colors actually look appealing. You’d be surprised but some schools/sports teams choose a pair of colors which don’t match. (IE: The Mets use a combination of blue and orange… UGLY)</p>
<p>I love how the campus looks and is setup, and how everything on the campus is within walking distance, but it’s still not exactly a small campus.</p>
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<li>It is easy to get into. When other state flagship universities are significantly increasing their standards FSU continues to be the safety school of the masses.</li>
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<p>^Thanks Dabigdawg72. People like you actually make me feel better about being denied by UF. If you’re the type of person they want, then they’re not the type of school I want.</p>
<p>Much appreciated and good luck at UF. You’ll fit right in I’m sure.</p>
<p>I’ll just add; admissions standards do not necessarily correlate to being a better school (IE: Iowa State). In the end, you will be no better off going to UF than FSU. Keep yappin’ though high schooler; you know everything. If somehow you get denied by UF, please choose UCF.</p>
<p>Yes, more women go straight from high school to college, and more women stay in college for four years. And if admissions is gender blind, the make up of most colleges and universities is about 55% women and 45% men. Some LAC’s and private universities are NOT gender blind. They take more men than are qualified to keep the mix at 50/50.</p>
<p>Most coed colleges have more women than men; girls seem to be more into academics. It is illegal in the United States to discriminate against someone for things like race and gender. I’ve wondered in past how some colleges apparently admit men with lower grades and test scores over women to increase male ratio at colleges. Even a private college, if it accepts federal money or uses federal student loan programs and federal grants like Pell–how can the schools legally discriminate? Anybody got an explanation please.</p>
<p>yeah i like that it’s a little over 2 hrs. from my house. it’s a hilly drive and it’s not bad. it’s the perfect distance.
i wish they had 7-11s in tallahassee though haha. they don’t have them in jacksonville, and i was hoping they’d have them there.</p>
haha. All colleges are comprised mostly of women.</p>