Northern Illinois University Top Questions

My school is very large, with a variety of different ethnicities, very involved, many clubs and activities and very welcoming.

RANDOM. NIU seems to pop up out of nowhere since the surrounding areas are fields. While on campus you have buildings ranging from super old (castles) to new (dont know the new dorm name). The layout of the buildings are poorly planned and can make getting around a pain at times.

My school is imperfectly perfect.

Great school on an island in a sea of corn. I found my department of study to be small and intimate. It worked well for me, since it was close enough to my home, and I could go home on the weekends to raid my mother's refrigerator and mow her humoungous lawn. The town is quaint and welcoming. I was offered full time work and a paid way through a master's program after I graduated, which I declined. In retrospect, I wish I would have taken the opportunity, but so is life.

Northern Illinois University is a school where I learned about the reality of life from the murder of a fellow freshman, two gunshot events, and various drug dealings throughout the duration of my stay, however the serious circumstances allowed me to focus on my future in hopes to improve the world from these mishappenings.

Northern Illinois University is a school that is close to home, relatively easy to afford, and offers a fairly decent education.

My school is very diverse.

My school is very spontaneous,liberated,free,determined,smart,openminded.

NIU is the ultimate college experience because you get a little of everything when you arrive on campus.

I think it's a typical US university that provides positive resources for its community.