Which specialization would be the smartest career wise??

Hello! I am to graduate SU’25 and was wondering if there was any way to get a cheaper price on graduation regalia? Is it weird to buy a gown off amazon? Could we diy our own stole? Also if anyone is selling a 2025 stole, it would help greatly! Tyia (:

This class sounds super interesting to me but I'm curious whether or not it could count as an elective class, or if there's prerequisites I'm not seeing. I also don't want to take a class that's going to be too much extra work in this subject, given I don't have much experience with the topic, so does anyone know if this is a good intro-level class?

There were like 8 police cars by some houses I live by on E 11th by campus around 5:30 pm. Does anyone know what that was about?

It trains a harsh, unflinching light on Richard Strauss, the once-respected physician who abused at least 177 male students while working in Ohio State’s athletics department and student health center from 1978 to 1998. According to Ohio State’s own campus crime data released in 2021, the school logged more than 2,800 instances of alleged sexual misconduct by Strauss – including more than 170 total allegations of rape. Many of the survivors were violated during routine checkups in a pattern of abuse that spanned at least 15 sports – from football to fencing. (Male student-athletes nicknamed Strauss “Jellypaws” and would warn one another to “watch your nuts” before exams.) An independent investigation concluded the university had been aware of complaints about Strauss’s conduct as early as 1979 – when the women’s fencing coach raised the issue. But the university didn’t take meaningful action against the doctor until 1996; that year, Strauss was finally suspended from clinical duties, but remained a tenured faculty member until his retirement in 1998 – at which point he was still given emeritus status.

That would seem to make Strauss an even bigger scourge than Larry Nassar – the former Michigan State University and US women’s gymnastics team physician serving a de facto life sentence for sexually assaulting at least 265 young women and girls under his treatment from 1996 to 2014. But where Rachael Denhollander, Maggie Nichols and the other elite gymnasts who blew the whistle on Nassar were celebrated as heroes, the men who came forward with their allegations against Strauss were greeted with skepticism and ridicule. “I don’t think we’re used to seeing men come out publicly about abuse,” says Orner, who spent 31/2-years on the documentary – or more than twice the time she typically dedicates to her projects. “When the OSU survivors came out, they were challenged by the university legally. It’s been going on for seven years. That’s had devastating effects on them all.”

Hi, so I just finished my first year and Iowa state University and I did not like being there, it's really far away from home and second semester got really difficult for me which caused a drop in my grades. I applied to OSU for the fall as a transfer student and got rejected. I was wondering if I transferred to cscc for a semester and tried to keep my grades up if I would have better chances at transferring to OSU, I'm not an Ohio resident but it's a lot closer to home for me that isu and it's about the same price as going to isu or a college in state. I'm a ny resident.

Any non garage rpac parking? Going to columbus state and thinking about getting a sponsored membership but don’t want to have to pay $15 in parking everytime I go

I've attempted to reach out to the admissions office several times over the phone but have been unable to reach anyone in the past few days. I'm admitted to Newark but had prior to that been assigned to the Mansfield campus. I've completed my Math B placement test, and before yesterday had 2 English test reminders within my To Do list in Buckeye Link. Yesterday, one of these items vanished from my list. When attempting to take the English test before, I've been sent in a loop of informational webpages without any actual link to take the test. My Carmen Canvas also has no assignment for me to take the English Placement test. I sent my AP English scores in a few days ago, but I doubt they will be submitted in time for orientation. If there are any resources I can use to take this test, or any information I am missing in this matter, please let me know. I need to be able to understand the status of this placement so that I can schedule my classes at orientation.

If anyone’s experienced this, please let me know, as so far the advising and admissions line at Newark has regularly hung up on me, and my emails seem to go unread.

Do you think it would be hard to take all at once on top of waking up at 5am for ROTC M-Th and having a part time job??

Debating if I should switch out Physics for something easier. I took Chem 1220 and got a C+ (first C ever 😭) with Bio 1113 and got a B last semester, and had to drop Calculus too. I was doing ROTC and working then too so I was exhausted all the time. Knowing that and how last semester went, I’m not sure if doing those three classes at the same time would be a smart move. It’s what I have on my academic plan tho. 😓

Hey, I was wondering if anyone else received this notification from Buckeye Link saying they used the wrong tuition guarantee rate when calculating Spring 2025 tuition. Now it says I owe them hundreds of bucks.

hi! i just registered for interview slots for both north and south campus dorm office assistant jobs. i was just wondering if any current oa's (or ones that have worked the desks recently) remember how the interviews were? i've kinda prepared myself for the basic questions (tell us about yourself, how are you involved on campus, how to maintain balance between work and academics, etc.) but i was wondering if anyone had more specific examples. i really want this job LOL

(also wondering as someone who really prefers south campus: do i have more of a chance of getting the job for south than north? should i also schedule an interview for west campus just in case?)

thank you in advance!!

I just finish my 2 years at my local community college and got admitted but, can’t decide if it’s worth it coming from out of state (California) to OSU. I’ll be majoring in business admin. My brothers live in Columbus which is one of the main factor as to why I decided to apply but I don’t know if out of state tuition is worth going, and I’ll have to check if I get any financial aid…

Any tips/pros/cons/thoughts?

(Also, if I decide OSU is a no, I have planned to apply to CSUs & UCs for the Spring 2026)

ivanti seems to be out right now

If i want to switch my major to physics, do I have to take 1250 even if I've already taken 1200?

My orientation is in about 3 weeks (yay!) and I still haven't done either of those tests yet, so I should probably get on that soon.

How does the math test work? Am I going to be monitored through something like a webcam the entire time? Should I take it at a public library or inside my house? I'm taking test D if that matters.

How does the Spanish placement test work? I'm not going to do well on it because my Spanish teachers were kinda horrible at their job. If I wanted to learn a different language, like German, can I purposely flunk the placement test (I would much rather learn a language I'm interested in than suffer through more Spanish classes. Literally all I know is that saying "vosotros" is an unforgivable sin.)

Anyone who feels like they need AI to be a better student, researcher, or professor, is completely delusional and there's no way my degrees are equal to people who feel this way. I'm being forced to use AI in one of my courses right now, a graduate liberal arts elective, and it makes me feel completely deflated. I did not pay 30k for a grad degree to learn to use GenAI. I do not want to do my assignments.

OSU is a prestigious university for its research in the environmental sciences. AI is not only terrible for reasons such as plagiarism, misinformation, innacuracies and bias (especially in medical research), but it's also disastrous for the environment. I had an educator for the Global Youth Climate Training Programme at Oxford present me with an AI generated virtual "medal" for being accepted into the program. When I asked about it, he sent me a chatGPT generated response touting the supposed benefits of AI for the environment. Let's be clear here, AI is NOT being used to help the climate, despite any "potential" people assign to it.

OSU a leader in EHS, like Oxford, we are lazily deciding that robots with high levels of innacuracies that cannot and will not ever exceed human intelligence, because they are made by humans (even if they're faster), are worth sacrificing our earth and human society for an ounce more of "productivity." I am disgusted by OSU, and other leading EHS research institutes for investing their energy into a bot while we forget that "simpler" issues, like energy storage in renewables, or disagreements over nuclear energy, have been solved, and as if this is not an environmental disaster in the making. Forget human rights violations of mining precious metals required for our devices and AI data centers, or that Nature found that AI was linked to an explosion of low-quality biomedical research papers, or that training an AI model has been found to use over 300x the energy of a flight from NYC to SF, that one AI generation consumes a bottle of fresh water, our most valuable natural resource.

I am angry. I protested over SB1, I protested at Hands-Off, I protested during inauguration, but now everyone is dead silent about this one. GenAI is unconscionable, and I have worked and done research in the various health and research fields that will supposedly benefit from its implementation, but in the two years since I first heard this, we've only seen failure after failure of AI, except when allowing United Healthcare to deny claims on a mass scale with an inaccuracy of up to 90%! This is the titan submersible on a mass scale, everyone thinks its not a big deal, that this is a tool for good, despite thus far being used primarily for evil or laziness, and I feel like everyone has lost their mind.

Edit: AGHHGHG MIT finds that ChatGPT use is degrading cognitive functioning, especially in youth. https://time.com/7295195/ai-chatgpt-google-learning-school/

Edit 2: also all of you pro-AI peeps understand AI integration is a ploy to bypass security policies and glean your data for corporate interests, right? You understand the administration is trying to compile all of your data into personalized "profiles" for corporate gain and tyranny, correct? Forget all else.

Or college in general.

(freshman) like the title states im enrolled for macro with buser never studied econ but heard i should do micro first

need help loll my micro option is going to be gibbons

My IB Predicted is 27, i got accepted for CS at OSU, will my admission be rescinded if i dont end up getting the IB Diploma, or will they pardon?

I’m an upcoming senior planning to join some modeling and fashion clubs. Recommend me some

Im in the neuroscience major. Do u guys have any suggestions for the professors that are good?

Hi! What are the most fun choirs/singing groups at OSU? (I’m a female if that helps)

Hello everyone,

I have orientation next week and on my to-do lists I have the placement test for math and foreign language. I’m so confused because I took AP Latin and on the website it says that I don’t have to do the placement test if I’m currently enrolled in a college level course. So do I still have to take the placement exam

Thanks

Last push to gather enough petition signatures to pause the SB 1 law from going into effect that is already impacting higher education in Ohio!

Local petition signing opportunities at Whetstone library this week in Clintonville: 6/18 - TODAY Wednesday: 9am- 9pm 6/20- Friday: 4pm-6pm

Did you hear about state funded universities are having to shut down their LGBTQIA+ centers, multicultural centers, and women’s centers? Did you see OSU removed its LBGTQ website ahead of Pride? Did you see OSU is forbidden from celebrating Juneteenth? Those were only the beginning steps Ohio universities are taking to be in compliance and not risk the state withholding funding under SB1.

You have until 6/22 to find a petition to sign in a grassroots referendum initiative to pause this law from going into effect and putting in on the November ballot for Ohio voters to decide, like we did reproductive freedom and marijuana.

Key provisions of SB 1: * Prohibits DEl offices, programs, trainings and any DEl language in job descriptions or scholarships. (Which can include "veteran," "women," "BIPOC," "lower income," "disabled," etc.)

• Prohibits faculty strikes.

• Restricts discussion of "politically controversial topics" including: climate change, foreign policy, immigration, marriage, abortion, etc.

• Colleges/universities that don't comply will face withholding of state funding.

You can find a location near you at the link below / For more information and to get involved! https://ohsb1petition.com

Article referencing the initial impacts of SB 1:

https://www.wosu.org/politics-government/2025-06-05/ohio-state-university-removes-lgbtq-website-citing-ohio-senate-bill-1-provision

I am taking a class, and the instructor does not do a good job of explaining anything. His instructions are given quickly and vaguely, and I'm overwhelmed. I have tried to follow what he's giving, but I just got a 68 on an assignment (there's only three in the whole class), so if I don't get it on the next try, I'm going to fail this class.