Valdosta State University — Attraction in Valdosta

All this school wants and cares about is MONEY. Coming here was one of the biggest mistakes I’ve ever made. On the first day, it was completely unorganized. Nobody even asked or cared to help the people moving into their dorms. I had to take all my stuff, BY MYSELF, to my dorm on the FIFTH floor. I live in Langdale right now, and it is awful. Taking the roommate survey is a complete waste of time because they will pair you with whomever they want. The dorms are disgusting. Georgia Hall and Centennial Hall are the only dorms worth staying in. The RHD at Langdale is rude, and she never does her job. I think it's important for an RHD to not pick favorites and to be able to help/listen to her residents whenever they need her. She doesn't do this at ALL. I have had two roommates, who both constantly used and stole my stuff without permission. Even when the roommates admitted to the RHD what they did.. She didn't do ANYTHING about it. The only time something was finally done was when one of the roommates let their friends sleep in MY bed while I was away. That is unacceptable. During winter break, I had ankle surgery. I came back to Valdosta having absolutely nobody care to help open doors for me or even help me in general. Langdale doesn't have a handicap shower that I could use which I think should be mandatory. Carrying my shower caddy while opening a door and jumping over a ledge into a shower all while on crutches was difficult and ridiculous. All residence halls should have handicap showers. I will never walk inside the bookstore again. They overcharge students for USED books. Also, I was charged over $100 for a book that I did NOT rent. When I asked the head of the bookstore where the receipt was showing that I rented the book, she couldn't find it, of course. I ended up having to pay for this book I apparently rented because if I didn't, I wouldn't be able to register for classes. The parking deck is forever away. Yes, VSU has shuttles that take you to the parking deck, but you could walk there and back before a shuttle even gets to you. The parking personnels give you a ticket no matter where you park regardless of how long you've been there. Even if you're in a 45-minute parking spot and you just got there, you're getting a $15.00 ticket. Now that doesn't seem like a lot of money, but it sure does add up when you continuously get them. They usually don’t take the hold off of your record after you paid the ticket until you ask them to take it off. You have to be advised by an advisor before every new semester in order to be able to register for classes. Which honestly, I think that’s good, but not if they do not know how to take notes and keep up with who has been advised or not been advised. I went to my advisor and got advised, but they did not raise my flag in order for me to register. I ended up having to wait FIVE days to get advised AGAIN to register for classes. I showed up on time to my appointment when my advisor was 30 minutes late. By the time I got advised and was able to register, every class that I was going to take, which was 14 hours worth, was gone. The dining halls are disgusting, and the food is nasty. It's not even worth eating. Studying here, I have only had a total of two good professors. One of which is Donna Sewell, an English professor. She's great and she taught me a lot. The other professor I loved was Jimmy Taw. He was my History professor. I enjoyed him thoroughly. The only thing that I have liked about Valdosta is the gorgeous campus. I think I would have a different opinion on this school had my first year been better. This school was not for me, clearly, and I can't wait to leave. I just hate I wasted my first year of college at this university. Good luck to anyone who...

Staff helps you with nothing, they give general statements of "missing documents" without specifications or providing any list of what you need unless you beg. Along with this, housing is student ran as the "adult" staff are useless and never know what is happening in their own branch. The students in housing RAs are usually 17-21 year old young adults who are NOT qualified to handle to situations of monitoring a living space with multiple other young adults of the same age. With the RHDs being also pretty useless never aware of their RAs shortcomings. The dorms are either destroyed from the inside, filthy, or have some major issue like a broken AC (which in some buildings creates a giant oven putting some students at risk of heat strokes or fatigue.) along with multiple student peers having no respect for your personal space, sleep schedule or personal items with the RAs never taking action in these situations. Most times I've been met with a shrug. Finally, when handling adult staff, they come off as completely cold towards the students of VSU. I've witnessed students beg and cry over wanting to leave the dorms only to be denied over and over just so they can squeeze whatever money they can from these students VSU apparently oh so "loves and cares for" The adult staff seems to only care for their paycheck and not assisting the students, causing many to drop out. However the classes are enjoyable, and many of the Professors seems very passionate about the topic they lecture on leaving lasting impression, but even the Professors have gripes with the Staff of VSU repeating the same thing as coming off uncaring to other's situations or completely oblivious to their peer's actions.

if you wish to attend VSU I recommend living off campus, as on campus living can and will eventually in your student career be a complete and total nightmare. Do not listen to VSU's advertisements the Faculty of VSU does NOT care for your students aside from a few handfuls of Professors. This review was not made by just my personal experiences attending this University, but also many students interviewed and questioned about their feelings on...

I'm a mass media major. The professors in that department are great. I know a lot of people think the school is bad for allowing Eric Sheppard to desecrate the US flag. However, Eric Sheppard was within his rights to desecrate the flag despite how horrible the act was. Logically, the Air Force veteran who was arrested was arrested justly because she was in fact taking a flag that did not belong to her. However, what is most disgusting about the situation concerning the school is that a few days later, Eric Sheppard came back and his group was threatening to shoot white people. The police did nothing at that point. There was a also a video of him on campus in an interview saying he was a terrorist towards lies, etc. It doesn't matter what you're a terrorist FOR, a TERRORIST is a TERRORIST! And the police did not act on that video either! How can we put the lives of the students in the police's hands if they're going to let things like that slide??? The housing office is almost unwilling to help you if a problem and run their department as a bureaucracy. The dining halls' food are not very good and the dining employees' attitudes are just downright sorry. They're always understaffed and lines for the food are often quite long. The school's top priority is MONEY. In fact, parking is paid in your tuition but you also have to buy parking passes which makes zero sense. And there's always a huge lot in the parking lots that are closed after a certain time at night so you have to walk super far to get to your car which is incredibly stupid. They just need to build a taller parking deck. It's not all bad though. The professors in the subject you're learning care about you and are passionate. The campus is...