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| Quite Bright | hard to talk to professors. little social life if under 21. everyone goes home on weekends. every sport is bad, no one attends the events. campus is dead after 5pm every day. its a small, concrete university. everything there is cement, gross. its dirty | Surrounding City: A+, Extracurricular Activities: D- |  | | |
| | Nov 01 2009 | 1st Year Male --
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| Not so bright | | Hello UIC Art students this is very important that you listen. I went to UIC Art School and they cancelled my major. You are asking yourself how can a college cancel a major. Trust me they can because they ARE THE ONES THAT DON'T GIVE A DAMN about their students . There is ONE advisor for ALL UIC Art Students that doesn't care about any of the students. She simply just shoot you in the foot and she doesn't give you any guidance if your major is cancelled. My advice UIC has got so many Art Students and ONNNNNNE DAAAAAAMN advisor that don't even provide any guidance!!!! BE READY YOU ARE NOT GOING TO BE HELPED. THERE ARE NO SERVICES FOR STUDENTS THERE IS JUST CRAP ALL AROUND!! | | Oct 13 2009 | 1st Year Male --
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| Not so bright |
I've been in this school 4 years not, doing my last year currently, and unfortunately I have to say that I wish that I had done my research when picking a school. I am very disappointed in my choice. I will not comment on the campus life since I'm a commuter (I had to assign a grade for such topics that pertian to life on campus but these are just guesses since I never dormed on campus). I will instead focus on the quality of education and the quality of the facilities and the like (i.e. things I would know about).
One of the greatest troubles at UIC is the poor faculty. I suspect that this is the case with many engineering/science majors(although I can't speak about faculty for majors other than my own (mechanical engineering)). The reason I suspect this is because UIC is known as a research university (the reasearch being done in engineering/science fields) and the rumor goes that the order of the land is that if a person can bring money into the university then they will be hired to do research at UIC. Along with being hired to do research, these same people, who often have no interest/ability to teach, are made to teach students. What you end up with is teachers who are very rude, do not hold any office hours, refuse to help students, have no motivation to teach students, etc. Some of the worst teachers based on experience and/or word of mouth (you can look them up on ratemyprofessors.com) are Lemke, Hans Goeckner, Budyn, Charles Rhodes (and his trusty underling sidekick Boguta). These are the worst ones, most are not AS bad, but there are many others that are pretty bad. I had teachers refuse to help me understand the subject. One even told the class that he found it funny how people e-mailed him with worries and questions about the exam and laughingly said that he deleted such e-mails. The physics department in particular has notoriously poor teachers, the average on the exams usually being 60% or less, not because they're THAT hard but because of the poor quality of teaching. It is a complete disgrace how some of these teachers are allowed to teach at ANY school.
The facilities are also in poor shape. The new South campus looks pretty good I admit but the West and East Campus are very ugly. It is no secret that there UIC is very underfunded. One of the more pronounced examples of this is when I found a sign on the towel dispenser saying something along the lines of "No towels due to budget cuts." Come to think of it, many soap dispensers and towel dispensers usually lack soap/paper towels respectively. Perhaps this is the reason why?
The crime is pretty bad too. Students get emails every now and then about how some students got robbed in some neighborhood. Many times it's after 10 pm but sometimes it occurs fairly early in the day. There was one report of a robbery recently at about 6 pm in a neighborhood which I would rate as relatively safe, though I think that was an unusual crime, an outlier. If you don't stay out late then you have a pretty good chance of being safe. Ironically we sometimes have our finals fairly late in the day. Most people, including myself, haven't been a victim of a crime but it does happen more times than is acceptable. The area has been a lot worse however, prior to me coming here. A lot worse -- This is all just from what I heard but I heard it way too many times for it not to have some sort of validity.
so what are the positives? The cost it pretty low, or so I hear -- my parents pay for college so I wouldn't know :) The location is very good as well. I walk from the trainstation in downtown to the East campus, takes me ~20 minutes on average. I also feel that I picked up a lot of good work habits (since some of my teachers were as bad as they were, I had to learn a lot of the material myself by reading the book) but then again I could have done that in a much better way that wouldn't include me getting an inferior education.
The only reason I can think of why I went to this school is because I didn't know of any other school other than UIC (and Harvard -- which is out of my reach). This was probably because I was depressed in H.S. and I didn't know what to do with my life. My Sister went to UIC and my parents wanted me to go to college and since I didn't have any better plans I figured "Sure, why not." I bombed my first semester with a 1.8 GPA but since then I feel better and I now have a GPA above a 3.0.
There has been talk of renovating the campus recently, including the demolition of possibly the 2 ugliest buildings on campus (University Hall and Behavioral Science Building). The new South campus and the two renovated lecture halls look very good. I think the newer teachers being hired are far more qualified for teaching, or perhaps I'm just imagining things. The teachers I had here that were brand new were very good and very top quality. In the future I think UIC may become a decent, and maybe even a good school, but for the time being I regret to say that I would not want to choose to go to UIC again and I will not be applying here for my Master's. I wish UIC the best of luck in getting its act together, but in the mean time I would advise everyone to stay clear of this school as much as it pains me to say so. | Scholastic Success: A, Individual Value: F | | | |
| | Sep 20 2009 | 4th Year Male --
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| Super Brilliant |
UIC failed me on 2 fronts. It was impossible to create a social life, and when I fell into a deep depression 2nd semester, the school did absolutely nothing to help. Attending UIC was one of the worst decisions I ever made. I'm happy to be out, but with a semester of F's on my record now, I just don't know how things are going to work out.
Do NOT go to this school if you want to make friends & meet new people! No one is interested in meeting you. The people in your classes will be mostly commuters, and the people in your dorm will be ridiculously attached to their families and high school friends. I tried so hard to form new friendships (and I'm definitely a social person!), but no one was interested in having that "college experience." Everyone who chooses UIC is from the area, so a lot of people in the dorms went home every weekend to chill with their friends from home--which is fine if you're willing to make new friends, too, but so many people weren't.
I got stuck with a racist roommate 1st semester (I'm white, she was black), and when I switched 2nd semester, things improved for a while, but then all this stupid high school drama erupted (someone slept with someone and I wasn't supposed to tell, apparently...this is seriously the type of bullshit people at UIC are concerned with) and I was shunned by my floor.
I had a good German professor both semesters, but I stopped going to class due to my own personal issues. Most of your prof's and TA's in the math/science departments won't speak English, but I didn't really encounter anyone who was outright mean or unhelpful.
English classes at UIC are a joke, because a good percentage of your classmates will be incapable of stringing two sentences together. I had to take the second semester of the freshman writing requirement (thank GOD AP exams/ACT got me out of the 1st semester of it), and you could tell that my Prof basically wanted to drown himself. The course was a joke, and my classmates were downright stupid. I blame UIC for this, not the students. UIC doesn't really give a fuck if you speak English or not, and I witnessed a lot of hardworking students drop out entirely. They simply weren't prepared for a 4-year university and should never have been admitted in the first place.
If you do make the monumentally stupid decision to attend UIC, don't live on west campus. I repeat: DO NOT LIVE ON WEST CAMPUS. There are absolutely NO advantages. And if you choose to commute, well...I pity you, I really do. You will be miserable. | Surrounding City: A, Innovation: F | | | |
| | Apr 10 2009 | 1st Year Female --
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