The Illinois Institute of Technology

Date: Dec 31 1969
Major: Architecture (This Major's Salary over time)
OOH MY GOD! I would NEVER attend this school ever, if I had to do it over again! I was accepted at Cornell and also Notre Dame. I went to IIT because I really didnt want to move out of town. I regret it! They believe in DRAWING till the cows come home. When I was in school, they were transitioning into computers, but we had classes end to end to learn to draw beicks, and fine tune manual drafting- all at a time when these skills were becoming obsolete. When I got out, I was ill equipt to compete with my marginal architectural skills, so I went into construction management. I traveled all over the place when economy was good. That sounds like a good experience, but you become a gypsy and you only get older without gaining more SKILLS, have a family like most people want to do, but then you schlepp your family around doing the "big jobs"- just keep the same skills which are in demand one day and then you are older and find you didnt get a very good foundation- yet your student loans are off the clain- and still need more skills to stay current. If the IIT 3 year graduate program was any good, my class would have had more to build on. Most of my training ended up being OJT. I can promise you by the time I graduated, there was no such job title as "drafter", yet that what most of my tuition 4 paid to teach me. Architectural theory and drafting! What about Codes, and practical experience? Boy…If I could only do it again, I would have got the HELL out of there! Somehow, it has a great reputation, which is partly because it is an international school- which is "fashionable", so its more perception than reality! I could just cry about my the career and financial disability that school caused me when I could have spend valuable dollars elsewhere with a far better outcome. RUN LIKE HELL!!!!! Pahlease!!!!!!