University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Top Questions

The worst thing about my school is that I was unable to stay in an apartment my freshman year. If that's all I can say bad about my school, I would say it's pretty amazing. Wouldn't you?

Student body size. 30,000+ students made for too large and dispersed of a campus.

In my opinion, the worst thing about my school would be the lack of interaction between students of different nationalities.

Probably location. The immediate location is ok, but I would prefer to be a little further north or south in the state -- we're right in the middle of a great corn desert.

The worst part of my school is the lack of personal interaction with the staff and facility. Our university has an excellent reputation for publishing quality research papers. However because of this, it puts a constant pressure on the professors to produce results and if they fail to do so, they will be fired. As a result, many professors care very little about the class they are teaching which leaves the students to reply on the teaching assistances to answer questions that they have.

The amount of drinking and partying on campus. I don't like that I can't walk around Thursday, Friday, or Saturday night without seeing drunk students everywhere. I think that it represents our school very badly.

The worst thing about U of I is that there is very few people here in the summer. I currently work for a physics professor on campus and there is very few people here this summer, making life a bit boring right now.

Surprisingly, the worst aspect of the university in my personal opinion is its location. The brutal six-month winters of 20-below-zero days and feet of snow is grueling, especially considering my being a resident of the state of Florida. Should one wish to attend the University of IIlinois but is not acclimated to a midwest climate, be sure to be both willing and prepared to withstand frigid temperatures and a snowy landscape for the majority of the school year. The university does a fair job of shoveling sidewalks and making available transportation, but again I say, "be prepared."

Sometimes the size bothers me since the art campus is in the corner and I live on the opposite end. The school bus system is great though to make up for it!

The greek community runs the campus. If you can get past the constant talk abot houses and status within the social community it is not too bad.