So I'm from Ohio, and the most frequently asked question that I hear is, "Why in the world IPFW?"
My famous answer to that and most other questions has always been "I don't know," until I really started to think about the reasons I am here. A little background on myself, I am not a traditional first year student here I actually transferred from a smaller school in Ohio. After this semester I will be a junior and I’m actually just a photography major, working toward minors in journalism and sports management. (My majors and minors have been changed several times!!)
I would start off by saying IPFW is not for everyone! It's a pretty big campus with about 13,000 students, and a much smaller housing community of around 700. The facts sometimes surprise people because they picture us as a community college for commuters and part-time student with full time jobs. If you’re looking at IPFW, I would recommend a tour of our campus because it really isn’t enough to just read about it online.
I first toured campus in June of 2008 and it was little overwhelming! A few things that attracted me to this school were the student housing, the beautiful campus, and the numbers! Our student housing isn’t like your traditional dorm room setting. I currently live in a four bedroom, two bathroom apartment style dorm. It’s really nice because I have my own room, I share a bathroom with one other roommate, and we have a kitchen and living room. The only down side to the apartments are you have to learn to cook for yourself real quick.
The campus is just a very pretty and is a well-taken-care-of place. I really think a tour speaks for itself! Finally I liked the numbers! I like that there are 13,000 students on campus, but the student / teacher ratio is 26 to 1. I like that class sizes, unless it’s a lecture, are usually under 20 students at a time, and finishing off my last topic, I am a pretty big sports fan and like the fact that IPFW is a division I school. It’s pretty neat to see other big schools like Ohio State and Penn State come and play here!

Feel free to leave comments or shoot me an email: gerdms01@ipfw.edu
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