Northern Illinois University Top Questions

I wish I had known more about the weather here during the winter. Last year I had to practically walk in a mini-blizzard to get to my finals. I also wish that someone had told me that it takes extreme weather conditions to have school cancelled.

I wish I had known how chaotic registration was and how the counselors have no idea what they are talking about. I have been attending the Hill College Cleburne Campus and no one knows what they are doing everyone runs around like chickens with their heads cut off! Most of the time they can?t finish my paper work for financial aid so I get dropped from my classes. In January I will move to the Hillsboro campus so I'm sure the experience will be much better because it is the main campus.

I wish I knew how the dorms are really set up. The diagrams don't show it all.

I wish I would have taken school more seriously first semester, and realize that you have to pu in a lot of studying to get the grade you want or you will fail, fall behind and then have to retake the class the following semester.

I wish that I would have known a little more about the town that the university is located in. I may have chosen something a little more exciting, but Dekalb is a nice size for a college town.

Just that the social life is centered so much around drinking unless you are in a really tough program. This does not allow me to fit in too well socially as I do not drink, smoke, or party.

That it is harder than you think. Once you get to the college of your choice, you have to work hard at school to keep your grades and everything up. Other than that it is a learning experience when you get to school, a fun one. So there is nothing else that I would change.

I wish I had known how much of a commuter school it was. It's only an hour away from the city of Chicago, so usually campus is really dead on the weekends. Also, I wish I knew how focused much of the school was on the business and engineering colleges. These colleges both are provided with the best computer labs, newest buildings, and resources. Whereas, for example, the building for liberal arts and sciences, where my area of study is focused, is old, outdated... with limited resources to computers.

I wish I knew that many students go home on the weekends.

I wish I would have known more about the extra cirricular activities on campus