The University of Illinois Urbana - Champaign

Date: Dec 31 1969
Major: Architecture (This Major's Salary over time)
It entirely depends on an individual's ingoing and consistant attitude. I went to UIUC both for undergrad and grad, and am very comfortable on campus as I leave for the "real world." Yes, students are friendly, yes, they are hateful. You choose with whom you would like to spend your time. Professors are approachable and helpful…yet I have have thrown up my hands to agree to disagree with more than one. If you do not want to "be a number" then have more personality than a number does. One thing UIUC is NOT short on is things in which to be involved. There is always a cause, a project, recreation, a concert, a game—always something to do, should you have the capable, forward attitude to do it. You find what you want to do, what makes you happy, and get involved—it doesn't take much more than reading the posters on the ground. Or reading the Daily Illini, or the Octopus, …call the Division of Campus Recreation. Stop in your departmental office, ask what there is to do around here. They'll give you a long list. I got involded in and out of my department, and found that my activities complemented each other in such a way that my work ( food) gave me skills to improve my TA position ( tuition), which lent itself to how I viewed the school of architecture as a whole, and my entire outlook on how I wanted to approach architecture in the working world.

Yes, the quality of academics is definately a consideration—UIUC has that pretty much well covered in the architecture department. The focus is theory and history, should that appeal to you—different schools focus on different aspects, providing their students with different strengths. There's more I would like to have learned, yes, but I also figure that no school can cover enough ground to entirely prepare an architecture student for the office.

That's a lot of words to say all at once.

All I really mean to get accross is:

You get what you make of it.