Think about what made you decide to enroll at Hofstra University. Was it the campus, the staff, maybe even the dining hall? Regardless of the reason why you chose Hofstra for your college experience, its campus no doubt went above and beyond your expectations as an educational institution.

Then you took a class. Freshmen are so focused on the aesthetics of Hofstra’s campus that they neglect to see how flawed the classes tend to be, which becomes a problem when faced with the realization that classes are the lifeblood of the college experience.

My first student tour group concisely avoided a trip through a residential building, a choice that had to be intentional on Hofstra’s part, seeing that the bathrooms alone may derail a student’s plan of living on campus. If not that, then the rooms suffering from a deafeningly drab aesthetic and plain style could make a potential student rethink their plan for on-campus residency. My speculation is only enhanced by the residence life website – which displays fully furnished dormitories – and the tours showing only fully-staged rooms.

As a student who still loves the school, it pains me to see some of the changes Hofstra has begun to make, like Student Government Association budget cuts, increased prices at the student center and classes about and including the use of AI. It pains me as a junior who noticed these flaws from the beginning to watch the incoming freshmen be unaware of the hardships that they are about to unknowingly face.

Hofstra seems like a dream come true for prospective students, but beyond the aesthetics, there are countless flaws holding the university back from becoming the picture-perfect image that the school likes to project.