r/SFSU

Okay so basically I accepted both unsubsidized and subsidized loans though I fucked up big time. I completed the MPN and the Loan & Exit counseling thing a day after it was due since I wasn’t at all notified(I completely take blame for this). Recently I checked my Tuition and Aid tabs on the sfsu app and gateway to see that my loans were only seen as offered and not accepted. I just emailed the Financial aid office and I’m still crashing out about it. I completely understand that I made a mistake on my part, but I have no idea what to do if my loans will not go through. As of now, I’m looking up private loan options and mentally preparing myself to ask a few family members for money. Has this happened to anyone else?

I’m supposed to transfer to SFSU this fall as a design student, and I’m seriously considering delaying my transfer for a semester or maybe a year because my anxiety has gotten really bad.

I have MDD, anxiety, ADHD, and autism, and one of the biggest things I’m struggling with right now is the commute. I live pretty far from campus and would have to take public transportation into SF. I’m really scared about doing the commute alone, and I haven’t even been able to get myself to do a full practice commute by myself yet.

The frustrating part is that some days I feel completely fine and think, “I can do this. It’ll be hard at first, but I’ll adjust.” Then I’ll have days where my anxiety gets extremely bad and I genuinely don’t know if I can handle the commute AND being at school all day.

My anxiety also gets very physical. When it gets bad, I get extremely nauseous, lose my appetite, feel like I might throw up, etc. It’s not always something that goes away after an hour either. I’ve had periods where the physical anxiety symptoms last for days or even weeks, which makes me scared about what will happen once classes actually start.

I did community college mostly online, so I’ve honestly spent the last few years not going out very much. Going from that to commuting into SF and attending an in-person university feels like a massive change, especially since I’m already a very anxious person.

This also isn’t my first experience with something like this. Right after high school, I tried attending a university about three hours away from home. My anxiety and depression became so severe that I ended up withdrawing before classes really started. That experience was pretty traumatic for me, so I think part of me is terrified of repeating it.

Another huge source of anxiety is financial aid. I was told that my aid is supposed to disburse around August 19, and that if I withdraw after receiving aid and don’t complete the semester, I could potentially have to pay some of it back. The idea of trying to force myself through the semester, realizing I genuinely can’t handle it, and then owing thousands of dollars makes me feel sick.

At the same time, I don’t want anxiety to make this decision for me. Part of me wonders if I should just push myself to go and see if I eventually adjust. But another part of me wonders if the fact that I’m already getting this physically sick and overwhelmed before classes have even started is a sign that I should give myself more time.

I’m currently thinking about either:
- Going this fall and trying to stick it out (but I’m scared about the financial aid aspect of if I can’t stick it out)
- Delaying for one semester and working on becoming more independent/comfortable commuting
- Taking a full year off and then trying again when I’m hopefully in a better place

I’m especially interested in hearing from other SFSU commuters, transfer students, design students, or people with anxiety/ADHD/autism who have dealt with something similar.

Did commuting and being on campus eventually become easier once you got used to it? Do you think taking time off would make the transition easier, or would I just be postponing the same anxiety?
I know nobody on Reddit can make the decision for me. I’m also talking about this with my therapist and trying to figure out what would be best. I just really want to hear from people who have been through something similar because right now I feel very torn between pushing myself and recognizing that I might genuinely need more time.

I'm hearing this is the hardest class for CS majors, do you guys have any advice on how to pass it? What should I start learning before I enroll into this class. And did you guys use any AI to code?

Is it too late to apply and get housing for this fall, ive been looking for off campus but its impossible to find a place and i didnt want to live on campus because my fafsa isnt giving me nearly enough but it might be my only option atp

Hey guys I’m an incoming transfer from juco and I’m going to live in the MSQ. I’ve been having a hard time getting a parking pass since they released yesterday and the parking and transportation office hasn’t answered my calls. Is there another place on campus I can buy a parking pass for? I don’t mind walking or taking a skateboard to my car from the MSQ. I’m moving from sacramento, where I drove everywhere and I’m assuming I can get by most days by the public transportation in the city and a E-skateboard. Any help would be great🙏🙏🙏

I recently discovered I have a SFO hold from this summer and I need to pay $1347 for an intro to macroeconomics class. Cpage won’t get back to me and the bursar office won’t help me. This has to be a mistake right? And even if it wasn’t why didn’t financial aid cover it? I really can’t afford this and I also can’t have a hold right now. Any help or advice would be really appreciated.

Hi! I’m a new transfer student at SFSU this fall and I’ll be commuting to campus. I was wondering what everyone’s favorite places are to hang out, study, eat, or just chill between classes?

I’ll probably have some gaps between classes, so I’d love to know about places where you can comfortably stay for a while without feeling like you have to constantly be studying lol. Somewhere I can sit with my laptop, eat, charge my stuff, or just relax for a bit would be great.

I’d also love recommendations for quieter/less crowded spots, comfy seating, or any hidden spots around campus that new students might not know about!

Thanks :)

How do students get parking permits at ups?? I've been contacting the school parking email but they literally are the most unhelpful people.

I'm trying to help my sister fill out a scholarship and I need information from her sfsu account but she doesn't know where to find this information.

She needs her annual tuition and her award letter. If anyone can help provide steps that would be great for her because she's really lost and I'm trying my best to help her, but because I don't go to the school there's only so much I can do.

The scholarship also keeps emailing her with every submission she's sent saying she's done it wrong.

Hey everyone, hope everyone is doing well, nursing applications just opened and im very nervous, i want to know if I have a good shot at getting admitted to CSUEB or SFSU nursing, my stats are:
96.7 Teas, +3.7 GPA, Bilingual, +1000 CNA hours, about 5-7 letters of recommendation, local, and first gen!
Wishing us all good luck, we all got this❤️‍🩹🙏🏼

this is a very random question, but i'm getting into skateboarding and i'm wondering if there are any spots on campus or nearby for me to practice? i saw online that sfsu banned skateboarding on campus

Hey is any photography student interested in a paid wedding job August 28th? Just message the thread or DM if you are.

Hi sfsu students <3

Spring semester I had a communications class with Dr.P. I Plain and simple this educator really knows how to utilize “white women tears”. I’ve had different classes with them but this past spring semester has really rubbed me the wrong way. They uses therapy talk and victim complex anytime a student brings up a concern. Especially if you don’t agree with them politically. Like slamming doors that are connected to the classroom when the students express a different point of view.

this professor pulled me to their office for a one on one (me thinking it would be about assignments we had discussed to talk about once my project was completed) to let me know they were offended that I did not give them the credit they deserved on a project(sfsu based project) I had which was posted via social media, mind you this professor provided nothing to my work other than the fact that I told them what I was working on (because it over lapped with some class work) and they gave me general advice to go with the work I write. This project is very personal to me because not only is it political it is very close to home for me and based on lived experiences of my loved ones. OKAY going back to this professor pulling me into their office. They explained to me that they feel ignored by the department and they don’t know if they have a job with this college because they are not tenured, then they add how in feminist literature it is talked about women’s labor that goes unnoticed and they say I made them feel ignored and unnoticed with her labor and they didn’t get paid to speak about my project with me and begins to cry. I express to them I didn’t realize the impact the post(a post I did not post or approved) but that I’m not the department I’m not sure what’s going on behind the scenes and I apologized and left. I was surprised and irritated with this entire interaction because one a white person crying and explaining feminism to a woman of color didn’t sit right with me especially when my work is on the lived experience of a group of POCs, TWO they used their power dynamic as a professor to call me into this space and call me out where I have nothing to do but apologize and THREE I really didn’t think a shout out was a big deal and I don’t think they added that much value to my work that validates their reaction. A day or two later my grades for some assignments turn 0 which has never happened in the two times I’ve been in this professors class.

I spoke to someone from the comms department about this interaction and they told me to ask the professor about the assignments and also talked to me about the academic renewal process if I fail. That was all the help I was given.

I asked to speak to this professor again after class the following week. Ask about the grades and they claim they did not do that to my grades and will fix it (which I appreciate) I then bring up our last interaction and explain to them it didn’t sit right for me in the reasons I gave above. I also explained to them how inappropriate it was for them as a professor using their power over a student they know is vulnerable in this class and bring up a post. I explained how I am not apologetic and asked them why they tried explaining feminism to me. They say they worked with me for countless hours and starts naming hours some that didn’t even happen and then the time where they watched me perform my project and tells me to only use what I write, which again they asked me if I can share my project with them. They then tell me they asked their colleagues (not at sfsu)if they should speak to me, and believed they were done dirty by the post because of how ignored this professor feels by the department and me. I am not the department, the post was posted by a student ran account by a teammate who was proud. We went back and forth on a lot of things. At the end the professor says to me I want you to sit with and think about the times you benefited from overlooked labor and I responded with and I want you to sit with the idea and impact of a white person teaching a woman of color about feminism. WHICH what they are saying is true our professors deserve better our students deserve better. BUT IN THIS INSTANCE I DONT believe I’m a student profiting from them.

SAYING ALLLLL THIS TO SAY…. Im frustrated because I enrolled in a comms class back in April for Fall 26 with a different professor and they recently changed that professor to them and I had to drop the class because I do not feel comfortable with this professor in grading because of the biases that have been built.

Hey all,

I am a random citizen from New Zealand, and I chose your university to be setting for some fictional writing that I am doing.

I was a university student here in New Zealand pre-covid, but im sure our universities would be vastly different.

I'm wanting to know what a general day to day would look like.

Campus scene, events and festivals perhaps.

What do you like about your university?

What do you do that you enjoy?

Is social interaction a thing?

And my number one thing, what dont yoh like, and or is there a part of the uni that is old, abandoned or has some history?

Bonus bonus to someone who can share anything about the anthropology lecture theatre.

Its a weird one, and I look forwards to your discussions!

Regards

Joe

Hello, for CSU students are we provided access to free apps to be used while taking classes at SFSU?..if so how do I access them?

Hi everyone,

I was able to find a wonderful student throughout

last year. She’s graduated and moving away, so I’m hoping to find another college student to tutor my kid.

Details:

Schedule: 2-3 days a week (flexible on exact days, e.g., Tue/Thu or Mon/Wed), for 1–2 hours per session. Ideal for late afternoon/early evening after school.

Location: Public library near SFSU or a mutually convenient public location in SF Sunset.

Subjects: General 3rd-grade curriculum support: primarily reading comprehension, writing, and foundational math.

Pay per session. Prefer Zelle or Venmo.

Requirements:

Currently enrolled college student (Education, STEMo, obut open to all!).

Prior experience tutoring, babysitting, or working with elementary school kids are ideal but not mandatory.

Reliable transportation and punctual.

References available upon request.

If interested, please send me a DM with a quick intro about yourself, your major, relevant experience, your general availability, and your hourly rate requirement.