Northwestern University Top Questions

Don't sweat the small stuff. Realize that you are so blessed to be even attending college! You can only do what you can do each day, so be happy with that and bring that happiness to others :)

I wish I had known just how challenging the quarter system (in place of the semester system) would be. Having 4 classes every quarter for only 9-11 weeks is extremely hard academically, especially if you are active in social clubs, school clubs, sports, or any other extra-curriculars that may take up a lot of time. Although it is possible and becomes easily manageable by the second year, it took almost all of the first year for me to get used to the quarter system, while efficiently balancing work, dance, and volunteering.

I wished I had known how cold it was going to get and how pre-professional it can be.

I wish I knew more about the greek commmuity and its promenance. I don't think I was well informed about the social life at NU. I am in the greek community which comprises 38{4a082faed443b016e84c6ea63012b481c58f64867aa2dc62fff66e22ad7dff6c} of the undergraduate student body. I don't think I realized how much this would influence the social life of NU.

The strong presence of Greek life. I live off campus now and have lots of non-Greek friends, but freshman year it was very hard to adjust as someone who wasn't interested in being in a frat. You can go hardly anywhere without seeing frats guys and sorority girls and their events going on.

I wish I had known how big the frat life was here. I lived up on the north end of campus next to all the frats and it was very annoying.

I wish I would have known about the lack of racial diversity. I wish I would have known how hard it was going to be. I wish I would have had a better high school education before coming here.

I researched everything well before I came. I don't think there have been any surprises

Freshmen year is the most important year to do well academically.

I guess the only thing I wish I had known was how different life is on north vs. south campus. I lived on south campus, and it was fun. There were a lot of outgoing, cool people. But my sophomore year I'm living on north campus because I think it will be more fun. If you like to party choose north campus.