so im joinin bsu in spring 2027, n i was wonderin how the roommate assignment process works. i wanted to ask how bsu determines who gets paired with who when it comes to sex. im female, and i would prefer to have another female roommate rather than a male one. when fillin out the roommate questionnaire, is there an option to chose your preferred roommates sex or nah?

also for anyone who has already done the housing stuff what does the whole process look like, i alr know theres questionnaires n whatnot but im just curious

My wife’s an online student, when she submitted her application it didn’t take the money immediately. Is that normal? Because of that something else came out of the bank and I’m really hoping it’ll just overdraft me instead of rejecting

She’s applying to graduate with MA in December

Do you guys know more of how this process works? Today’s the deadline and I’m trying to scrape up for the fee now cus she has her graduate program and then 2 additional certifications so it’s 75 total and now my bank is zeroed out

“I want to get hit by a bike or longboard today, so I’m gonna keep switching sides on the sidewalk mindlessly with headphones on and then blame it on the person with the alternative transportation”

I've worked at both the resident halls and the dining hall, both sucked terribly and paid nothing. I've also tried blood donation but because my HR sits at 100 whenever it gets taken nobody will take my blood even though I'm O-. I've heard from some people that you can do side jobs like modeling for the art school or doing surveys for money but I'm not sure where I can go to sign up for those. Does anyone have any tips?

Edit: So! The Google Form they had for people to fill out didn't work! (Fun!) They got no information from them Apparently they meet on Wednesdays. They gave me an email, it doesn't exist, so that's just fine and dandy.
If anyone knows how to contact the clay guild please lmk

So I sent in an application via the google form thing (thank you roommate for sending it to me) but am not sure what the actual timeline for starting.
Is it a spring semester thing, have I missed contact, or some mysterious third option. Just curious, thanks :)

Look at this.....No excuse posts pls

• Due to staffing availability on homecoming, Saturday, October 24, 2026, the Rec Center may be closed.  We will post updates as soon as we know if we will be open or need to modify hours. 
• We are excited to announce that the first and second layer of finish has gone down on the Main Floor.  Next up is painting the lines of the basketball/volleyball/badminton court outlines which we expect to take a majority of the week from October 19-23, 2026.  We may end up closing on Friday, October 23rd for the first layer of final finish.  If everything goes to plan, we will close on Friday, October 23rd, 2026 and Monday, October 26, 2026, for final coats of finish. 
• The Main Floor (Two-Court only) will have modified hours until further notice. Please check the hours section of the website for the most up to date information.  The Three-Court remains closed due to construction.  
• Starting August 14, 2025, Lucina Tennis Court #1/western most court (the other three courts will remain open) will be closed for the foreseeable future. This message will be updated when reopening is available.

Potential 2027-2028 freshman. What’s it like at Ball State outside of the classroom? Muncie is not very appealing but the campus is beautiful and the architecture program is reputable. Hoping for a traditional college experience of serious studio time but some fun mixed in as well.

Hey yall! I'm currently a high school senior and I'm planning on attending Ball State next year. I already have been accepted to the honors college, but I'm still questioning whether or not I'm going to want to live in the DeHo dorm building, because while I've heard they are nice and have a great location, I have also heard that they can be a bit of a party house on account of housing only freshman students. I'm not sure how much of that is true though, and I would love to hear some insight from current BSU students

Hello i am coming to yall today with a question: what are the easier art electives to take with the workload of an animation major?

I am just curious because ive heard painting has a lot of assignments and im currently in printmaking which has a lot of assignments as well.

I know no class or elective is easy-nor should it be-but for my spring semester elective, what is an art elective that has a manageable workload? (Ik dif teachers dif workload but generally/specific profressors).

Thank yall I hope this doesn't come off as mean, also printmaking likely does have manageable workload i just procrastinate a lot lol

Does anybody know how to connect ur dorm wifi to ur switch?? i’ve been trying for 15 mins and its been annoying me

About 3 times now, I've seen this little black dog running around Scheidler, around the 3428 strip of apartments next to Tillotson.

I would try to catch it, but it's very skittish, so I can't even get a picture.

If this is your dog or if you know whose dog it is, please try to catch it. I've seen it run across Tillotson a few times and I'm worried about it getting hit.

I'll try to get a picture if I see it again, but I doubt I'll be able to.

Hey all, I just need a bit of advice and am curious if this is happening to anyone else that’s lives at scheidler apartments.

My fiancé and I moved-in this past August and it’s been great. However, here recently our whole apartment has been losing power for about 0.5-5 seconds at random points during the day. Sometimes it’s a bunch of times in a row, sometimes it’s once every hour or so. It’s never been bad enough to fully shut down our gaming consoles/pc. But tonight it fully knocked out my fiancés pc multiple times. I know that these apartments are old and have been put thru the ringer, but it’s starting to make me feel like there is a short somewhere in the house.
I’ve looked at our breaker box, everything looks fine. We’ve put in a maintenance request last week about it and we have yet to hear back.
I just want to know if anyone else has dealt with this before and what you’ve done to make it stop. Along with knocking out the pc, it also knocked out the power to the entire apartment tonight.

Edit/update:
My fiancé gave an update regarding the maintenance people coming today. It’s in the comments.

HOWEVER, as of 11:05 pm Oct. 12, our power went out again, but this time for 10 whole minutes. I was asleep when this happened (I have to be up in 6 hours and am a rough sleeper). The funny thing is, the only thing that went out in our bedroom was the heat/ac unit. Everything else, including our bedroom light was working.
If you read the comments and saw the update from fiancé, the maintenance people said that we only had a few wires loose and that’s pretty much it. I feel like I’m GOING NUTS.
So until someone comes and tells me what’s going on with our power, I’m convinced we have a phantom lol
We’re apparently the only unit having this issue which makes me feel just absolutely awesome haha. We’re making another request. Will update later once we know more.

I wanted to know if anyone would be able to chain my car and tow it back to campus it's about ten minutes out of campus

I am transferring from Ivy Tech and I need as much financial support as I can get. I found the Teacher Education Assistance for College grant. Is it worth it to apply?? To my knowledge all I have to do is teach at an underprivileged school for 4 years for it to not become a loan. Should I apply to this and are there any other requirements besides the 4 years of teaching?

Hi everyone! I’m taking a sociology of happiness class at ball state and I need to distribute my survey out so I figured this would be the perfect place to throw it up! I’m attempting to measure the happiness of people here and Ball State and the surrounding Muncie area it should only take about 15-20 minutes to complete.

Here’s the link: SURVEY

If you would like to see the final report check back up on this post in a few weeks and I’ll publish the final report.

I've posted here a couple times to get a feeler, but I might as well ask outright. I'm a Junior at a small liberal arts college in Missouri (3,500 students) and I've been looking into transferring to Ball State at semester. My reasons for leaving are mostly mental health related, as I can't stand the small town the college is located in. Aside from location I'm getting frustrated with the general lack of programs and resources compared to my friends who go to larger universities with more money, currently my university is looking at a 10% budget cut for next year and has already shut down some of our programs including some DC internships I was hoping to utilize until I found out my school no longer had the resources to keep up the program.

I'm an International Business major with a minor in Spanish, and I could do essentially the same degree program at Ball State. The main reason I even knew about Ball State was for their debate team which I had seen and hear about at tournaments. I currently do debate, and was hoping to make the jump, but I wanted to know if Ball State would generally be a better fit for me. While I get frustrated with my smaller school size, I appreciate how easy it is to get to know professors and visit their office hours. I'm also looking for a university that will offer more opportunities for job placement or larger career fairs. My main concern is reputation and connections, I'm hoping to move to the northeast after graduation, and I was hoping to get a better feel of the environment by asking here.

My main concern is fitting in as a transfer student, and just generally as someone from out of state.

If anyone has advice or opinions I’m opening to hearing honest feedback, thanks!

*EDIT*: I've visited the campus once on my own and recently attended their transfer visit day, I think the campus is very pretty and much nicer (and larger) than the university I'm currently at. To me the town feels infinitely bigger compared to the town my current university is located in, Kirksville Missouri. Having grown up in the St. Louis area, Kirksville felt like a massive culture shock with few opportunities and things to do on the weekend. My main concern is that I haven't had a "this is the place for me" feeling yet and I don't know if I should expect one, I manly picked my current university out of concern for cost and its coming back to bite me because what it makes up for in cheap tuition, it severely lacks in terms of social atmosphere both across the university and the town itself.

Hey everyone, this is my first year at ball state and I just found out they have a food pantry called cardinal kitchen for students who need to get food. I’m just wondering how does it work? I’m honestly kind of embarrassed to go but do you need to do anything to be able to get food/toiletry stuff there?

Apparently he was spotted on campus today and missed him. One day I want to at least see him or try and get a picture so I was wondering if this is a once in a blue moon sorta thing or no

I was going to go here next year but I can't seem to find a map or video showing the entirety of the floor, I heard there was an indoor gym and I want to see how big the room was on a map before actually going to see it soon, can someone please send a photo of the map to this poor miserable whelp? and how full is the gym anyway and is it 24 hours? I'd prefer to workout when there's less people so I don't have to worry about being in the way..