If you dislike snow and cold weather in the least, run away screaming. SUNY Oswego is right on Lake…read moreOntario and gets the most wind out of any place I have been. When it's bitterly cold, that 60mph wind will make you dream for Hawaii. Besides that, Oswego State was pretty awesome. It's on par with other state schools and has great extra-curricular activities. Plus, our hockey team is awesome. Alumns have gone on to places like ESPN and other well-known companies. Like every other college in America, you're going to be paying out your ears for textbooks, but their meal plan is really great- $5 for all you can eat. At lunchtime, try out their cheeseburgers, they really are the best college food I've ever eaten. The grill in Pathfinder can't be beat either. Oswego has been known as a party school, but it's just as much as most other state schools. If you're looking to stay away from parties, I'd recommend one of the following dorms: Johnson, Riggs, Waterbury, Scales, or Hart. If you really want to party, stay on new campus: Onondaga, Oneida, Cayuga are the big three. Some dorms are much better kept up than others. Johnson, Riggs, and Hart are the better kept dorms, but you're going to be living with freshman, engineering students, and the foreign exchange students because Oswego wants to show off for them. Take the tour of the campus, but don't let them sell you on the campus by the tour alone. They're going to show you all of the great things and none of the bad. When visiting campus, they'll take you into Hart, and Johnson (probably Riggs too), and the new Campus Center. Make sure you go into Lanigan Hall's second floor to see where all your lectures are going to be, and Mahar hall to see the classrooms without any clocks. Piez and Snygg are where the language and science classes are, and those buildings are pretty old. Go to Scales and Waterbury to see what actual dorms are going to look like too.

I spent four amazing years in SUNY Oswego and always cherish the good & bad times I experienced…read morethere. Coming from New York City it was quite the adjustment settling into this small town by Lake Ontario, but soon I came to love it. It's an affordable state school that is big on hockey (not football) and is made up of a diverse student body. One of the most famous alumni from Oswego is none other than weather man/TV personality, Al Roker. It's no more of a party school than any of the other SUNYs so I wouldn't knock it just because of that. I would say the best time to go visit is in the Spring or Summer because it is absolutely beautiful out there!