r/BallState

I’m debating transferring from IUK since I currently live with my parents, and most of my grants cover tuition there. I only pay around $1k a semester out of pocket for tuition right now, so moving away honestly seems like a huge financial jump.
Housing + food alone seems like it could easily be $1,000-$1,500/month. Then add tuition, gas, insurance, phone bill, car payment, random life expenses, and even just wanting to do fun stuff sometimes, and it feels like total monthly expenses could hit $2k-$3k+ pretty fast.
Are most students:
working while in school?

getting help from parents?

taking loans?

using scholarships?

or just surviving paycheck to paycheck? 😭

If you work while in school, how many hours a week are you realistically working? It feels like you’d almost need 25-30+ hours/week just to make it work, and balancing that with classes, studying, networking, meeting new people, school activities, and still trying to actually enjoy college seems really hard.

I'm from Uindy looking to transfer because my title ix and student affairs people suck. I've been harassed and cyberstalked by students here and they tell me they'll get on it but its been several months with several follow ups and nothing.

Disability services: are they nice and kind with you? Do they seem to actually care about disabled students?

Student resources: other than actual therapy/counseling, are the people to talk to when somethings up but you dont need therapy? My school has the terry center for student support and I built a good relationship with the woman there and she likes to see how I'm doing every now and then.

Counseling: the therapists at uindy suck so bad. I have a regular therapist but I've popped in to the office before when I was having a crisis during operating hours. If I did that all ball state, would it be worth my time?

Financial aid: transferring is gonna suck because I have a full tuition scholarship and I'm not sure if there's something at ball state to replace it. Practically everyone and I mean everyone gets financial aid here, is it the same over there?

Housing: do you guys have dorms shared with roommates or suitmates, communal bathrooms or semi private ones, etc? Are all your halls double or are there single halls? What typically happens at uindy is freshmen are in the double dorms and after that you move to one of the halls full of single dorms.

Dining: my school has an awful dining hall and a restaurant like option and a grab n go, a little convenience store type thing. Are your dining options better? Like, if i wanted an actual meal do I have options? Can I find one? Or am I going to end up going to a bad dining hall and eating cold unseasoned chicken and rice?

I saw my account has a negative balance- does that mean refunds might get dispersed sooner than Friday?

I would be transferring into Ball State as a Junior in the accounting program. I was looking at the 100% online accounting bachelors degree and am thinking this may be a good fit for me. How are the classes structured? Is there lots of proctored exams? I’ve completed my Ivy Tech associates which we did have a class time and then completed exams and projects through McGraw hill. Is this similar?

Yeah i just have a lot of dining plus and im just wondering if you can use it at the bookstore to get shirts or whatever I doubt it but just want to make sure.

Hey guys does anyone know what happened to Essien. I asked him for a letter of rec which I need in the next two months. I emailed him and haven't gotten a response back. Apparently he got fired? I don't know what to do.