Bowling Green State University — Attraction in Bowling Green

Firstly I apologize for leaving a comment here instead of where bus service is , for there's not even any platform to directly giving a feedback to the bgsu bus service. I believe that any organization/department should have a window to listen to the comments from the public, otherwise, some diehard careless people will keep the behaviors with little sense of responsibility.

Your bus time schedule is posted on the website and confirmed by all of people on this campus. However, on one Friday, one bus driver on the blue line bus came at the stop parking lot A at 6:50, and he rejected to take the last route before the normal schedule (7:00 pm on Friday). Yes, the drive believed that he is not supposed to take the ten people waiting at the stop for ten minute seem not enough for him to finish the last tour and he want to end up earlier for he want to go home, no matter if these ten students at the stop would take at least 30 min to walk to home AT 30 F degree!

Yes, you may say taking the last tour back to campus will make your work time exceed what should be for several minutes, and it is true. But the people at the but stop have been waiting there at least from 6:45 (15 min before the settled 7:00 pm!!!) without knowing your incoming plan of not to take any people. And the bus is running on the bgsu bus map as usual, which really befuddled us who leave from our department building at 6:40.

You are a bus driver, you have more sense than us how to estimate the arriving time. If should have realized on your second last tour (at least 6:40 pm on the road somewhere Dr. College) that the last tour is not able to be finished before 7:00 pm. Surely, you can withdraw your responsibility to take the last tour 6:50-7:00, but PLEASE INFORM US at 6:40. You should shut down the GPS tracking which befuddle us the bus is still running and back to campus at 6:40 so that you don't have to waste such a long time for people to wait for you. You may cancel the last tour for personal reasons, but please do not indicate you are still coming on the "bgsu bus map" (if you don't know how to do that, you could contact the technical persons at office. AT LEAST Try to do so!) But what you did? Decided to take more people after you arrive the stop on campus! We have waited for you for 10 min without knowing your crucial decision until the LAST MINUTE. If you tend to indicate us: wanna catch the last bus? Don't Expect you are still able to after 6:35! Tell us in advance! Otherwise I consider this behavior as a violation of trust. Or, it's merely an extreme dereliction of duty.

Please: try to remove the bus symbole from the tracking map once you decide not to take any more before the last minute! Do not make decision on the spur of the moment! Or, to stick to the principle of good faith, take the last ten students waiting at the bus stop to shoulder the results of not informing people in advance. Otherwise, your whimsical and unpredictable decision is very inappropriate and it will impair others.

Also, we all witness that most of the bus drivers of bgsu have good sense of responsibility and time management. It would to so unworthy to gain a terrible reputation among students and the public for merely the careless behavior of only one of two of them. But this behavior is disastrous enough to undermine the credibility among people. We don't know the name of the bus driver, so our only response is holding a terrible impression of the service to student of this school...

Bowling Green State University is in a word...AWESOME. I went there for my Masters and frankly speaking, those were few of the best days of my life. I am actually very surprised to see that the average score isn't above 4.75, at least. The school has everything a student can possibly ask for, an excellent faculty, a very helpful staff and the best overall atmosphere for a great student life. The library though could use a bit of an upgrade in terms of the range of books offered. But still, that is just the one aspect that I can think off where the University needs work. And if you are talking about the age of few of the building, then let me just say that it only adds to the experience. It’s an absolutely beautiful campus and the building (old and new) just adds to its brilliance. Coming to the teachers, they are all great, willing to go the extra mile to help a student out and make sure that you have all that you need to be a good student. In my entire experience I can't point out a single teacher that was even average, all were really good. As I mentioned before BGSU has a great campus, it might not be as colossal as some of the bigger Universities have but is still pretty huge. In fact it’s of the perfect size, not so big as to be a drag to go from one point (dept. building) to another but also big enough to give you a sense that you are a part of a decent size campus. The University is also investing big time into upgrading the campus, last time I visited a friend there, I saw a whole new Dorm come up along with a new arts center. I believe they are revamping the entire campus pumping in some $250M to do it with. As mentioned in another review (I believe it was Amanda's) this University exudes diversity, in every aspect of its life, students, teachers, activities...etc. That is what made this place such a joy to be in. Coming to the life outside the campus, well, if you are nocturnal then there are enough night clubs and bars to keep you content and of course several local restaurant and pizza places are there too. The place also has a Wal-Mart Super Center and a Meijer's, so you know....groceries shouldn't be a problem. :-D

More importantly, its Career Fair is what is so darn important. Because BG is in close proximity to so many important cities, business wise, the career fair has a huge number of companies coming in. These are for internships as well as full time jobs, and given the fact that even during the horrid time of late 2008 when the US economy had imploded, there were still several companies that showed up, I'd say its a very good place to be in career wise.

Finally I'd just like to say that you can't help but fall in love with this place, its homely, full of warm helpful people and best of all its got excellent courses and the faculty to...

Unfortunately I'm a BGSU alumni and I cannot recommend this university to anyone. I had several problems with the housing especially at MacDonald and all of my concerns were totally ignored (by Briar Wintersteen and others in Housing... Briar would walk around everywhere barefoot yet somehow he was the Resident Director of MacDonald dormitory).

There were several decent teachers in Computer Science department when I attended but usually when scheduling you'd just see 'STAFF' in the Star90 scheduling system so you barely could pick who your instructors were anyway. Once, I had an English professor named Elsa Gutman who was so bad she admitted she had only given one person an A in 10+ years of being at the school. She constantly mentioned how German she was and made constant daily references to alcohol and bar tending while teaching the class.

The entire university is centered on a cemetery so nothing is conveniently located besides the graveyard and maybe the Math building.

The parking was also comically bad. Many students would have to park out in the Lot A Overflow lot which was very aptly named because it would fill up with water if it rained lightly and I had witnessed multiple cars get stuck in high water and multiple years cars were abandoned due to getting flooded in this wonderful Lot A Overflow... which, by the way, was right next to I-75 and required a bus ride into both the town and the university. They were also extremely heavy handed with the parking tickets for having such poor parking availability. I think the average student had around $125 in tickets before graduating.

I was told they were going to build a parking garage (as a reason for increased tuition charges), but as of my last visit in 2019 they still haven't built a parking garage.

From everything I saw the University treated their students as solely a cash commodity... They just saw them as a way to make money and not as real people. The only place that had more disregard for the students was the city of Bowling Green which is also funny because without the university that town would have next to nothing other than the national tractor pulls and Scott Hamilton. It's surrounded by corn fields. There is pretty much nothing to do there in the winter and there are no hills so you can't even really get out and enjoy the windy snow.

If I had to give anything pluses for my anything from my entire stay for undergrad here I'd say a lot of things the school doesn't control are good and a few things at the school... Big ups to Campus Pollyeyes breadsticks, the Rec center, Hayes Hall, Guy Zimmerman, the Art building for being open 24/7, Pita Pit/Subway/Taco Bell and all the decent bars and clubs Uptown/Downtown, Brat Haus, Howard's, and the...