University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Top Questions

I wish I had known how to handle living in an environment with another person. I have never been very good with change and the first couple of weeks was a difficult adjustment for me. The worst part though is that my roommate and I are completly different people, we conflict on a lot of aspects of college life which makes the change even harder.

I wish that I would have been more outgoing. There are so many opportunites to get involved at this school. You just need to take some steps outside of your confort zone so that you can experience new things. You never know what you might like so you just need to try!

I wish I had better information and knowledge about being able to pay for college. When I came to the University for my freshmen year, I had recieved much financial aid and scholarships--but after that first year, I did not recieve much financial aid anymore. This was upsetting to me because I needed that financial aid to pay for my schooling. It became extremely difficult to gain financial aid and I have taken out many, many personal school loans to pay for college becuase I have been unable to recieve any aid from FASFA or from the school.

I wish I would have truly understood just how big the campus was. I underestimated where all of the buildings were located and sometimes didn't plan my schedule to accommodate enough time to get to each building.

Nothing really. I really like being able to learn new things on my own. I had a great time experiencing everything brand new.

I wish I had known about how big the school really was! I walked around and had a tour but I wish I had looked at a map. I also wish that I had know how to apply for scholarship money throguh the Univeristy. There are some places to look online but no one really comes out to tell you. It is up to you to look yourself.

To get involved right away! Its hard to make friends right away so you need to just jump in and meet people! nobody is just going to come to you

I did not experience any surprises at this university.

Well, I still haven't any classes at U of I, but I would like to know where I'm going to live when I get back for Senior year. As far as the school I'm going to now, (Ecole d'Architecture de Versailles) it would have been nice to know some of the students before and it would have been helpful to know French.

I wish I knew about college life more, what really happens at college and so on. An understanding of classes and tests would have been nice and helped early on. Responsibility is something important to know and time management.