Facts
Best Things
- Meeting new people every day
- Staying up 'til 4 a.m. eating Gumby's with friends
- Just a short drive from home for most people
- Having the biggest library in the nation and the best art museum and theater in the region
- Taking a required class only to discover that you have found your career
- The sheer number of clubs and events on campus—there is always much more to do than can be done
- Unofficial St. Patrick's Day
- Green Street has nothing but bars
- Playing Frisbee or sunning on the Quad in the spring
- Coming in as a clueless teenager, and leaving as a prepared adult
Worst Things
- Feeling like a number
- The dining halls
- Administrative hurdles and red tape
- Likelihood that discussions will be led by TAs
- Required classes that are useless
- Extreme weather: brutal winters, sweltering summers
- Location in central Illinois, with no vibrant urban scene nearby
- Eyesore buildings on and around Green Street
- Sweating on the way to class in the heat
- Having to graduate and grow up
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