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I too was full of myself, but was ***** slapped and humbled after my first year. Went from mechanical engineering to undeclared to economics.
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I too was full of myself, but was ***** slapped and humbled after my first year. Went from mechanical engineering to undeclared to economics.
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Kinda crazy how difficult Engineering College is compared to High School.... the step up is huge.
I assumed I could breeze through with B's in everything if not A's and B's and the rest of the time I would do college stuff and party and whatnot.... I was so wrong I barely passed some classes Freshman year. The workload, pace, and difficulty of the material in college, especially the CS classes for me... was shocking.
I am proud to have made it through and got my degree in CS, but it was a significantly humbling experience.
Also the people I met or encountered at U of I in the Computer Science program really put "smart" in perspective for me. I have quite a few family members and friends who would (and still do) say "You are like ultra-super smart..." or "You are the smartest person I know" and I appreciate complements, but I try to explain to them the levels of intelligence I encountered in the people who were like top 10% or 5% in Computer Science and how they made me look like a drooling toddler and they cannot even fathom it.
I do not consider myself an idiot lol, but after going to school with some genius kids, it really put my intelligence in perspective. When you are smart and there are not a ton of people around to challenge you, it becomes to easy to believe you are at the top and have no further to climb
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Going to college with Zack 
I think Zack is doing journalism... not sure. I am doing Journalism (Sports).
I think Zack is doing journalism... not sure. I am doing Journalism (Sports).
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I can see that making some sense... but I knew many to 10% kids who either got in at UIUC or could have gotten in at UIUC and chose Iowa so they could "get away".
I heard from some of my buddies who went to Northern and visited Iowa that it had a large population of hotties... not sure how true it is, but I suppose it might be worth paying for lol.
I always felt U of I was like 80-90% dudes when you went out to the bars....
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Did it make you wonder at all where all the chicks were? Lol seemed like a walk through the Quad on a warm day let you check out a scene of like 50% or more of really hot girls.... but then you go out at night and they were all holed up in a hot-chick bunker somewhere.
And yeah, I had many times where I was in a dude-filled bar and more dudes came in.... I am betting many guys had that experience at a U of I bar.
And yeah, I had many times where I was in a dude-filled bar and more dudes came in.... I am betting many guys had that experience at a U of I bar.
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That's exactly how I felt lol. Lots of times I feel like a babbling fool next to some of these guys. I don't know how I manage to befriend people who seem to be at the top of the class instead of people more like myself or why they'd associate themselves with me, but man...there are some really really really smart people out there.
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UIUC's business school is pretty good too. Maybe not quite like CS, but it's up there. The tuition for business is about the same as engineering though.
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Wait, this may be a stupid question(this is probably the place to ask it though), but tuition varies from department to department? Does that depend on the school?
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I personally have no idea. UIUC has different tuitions depending on which school you're in (or department/major if you want to think about it that way). Engineering and Business happen to be about the same. Biology and Chemistry are about the same and they're several thousand dollars cheaper than engineering. I think art is near the bottom in terms of tuition cost, but that's kind of a misleading number because you pay for your equipment out of pocket (and that stuff's mad expensive). I don't really know much outside of that though, and this is strictly at UIUC as far as I know.
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Education, Veterinary Sciences, and Accounting are top notch too at UIUC.
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I tell you what though. Even with a 3.0 GPA from UIUC employers respect the degree and school because they know it's tough. Even "Rocks for Jocks" classes aren't easy A's.
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Yeah, you had to rotate the bars you went to because on any given night the same bar either be a decent ratio or a sausage factory. With over 15,000 girls though you could make an ass of yourself and probably never see them again. One thing that helped though was joining a fraternity. The fraternity/sorority exchanges were the best.
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Drink, ****, Fight. That was my motto! Do that for the first two years then get serious! Turns out there is a whole big world out there after the drinking and the girls and it sucks compared to that.
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Yeah agreed, I did not frequent the bars a ton, I speak from the experiences I did have at them.
Did any of you guys go to Kam's or CO Daniels at all? Did you get AIDS off the floor?
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Lol Junior year my dad came out for Dad's weekend and kept talking about how his buddy from a bar he frequents downtown has a son who had part ownership of a bar at UIUC. He couldn't remember what bar it was for a while, so we started naming bars. Finally he says he thinks it begins with a K.... and I suggest Kam's. KAM'S! Yes he exclaims that is the name of the bar he was trying to think of.... Lets go checkout Kam's as it has been suggested to him he ought to when he visits me.
Do you want to get AIDS and Herpes all in one bar visit, I ask him.
My friends spent the remainder of the weekend egging my dad on to ***** at me about going to Kam's.
Finally I took 2 Keystone Lights out of our fridge, cracked them both open, threw them on our kitchen floor, stepped on them so they shot all over the floor, and then I stood in the middle of the beer soaked floor and yelled "THERE! NOW WE ARE AT FUCKING KAM'S..... ARE YOU HAPPY?!?!"
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Don't do it.... the UIUC bars need more dudes! :lol: