Northwestern University Top Questions

BEST: People. Hands down the best coolest brightest kids you will ever meet. Its not pretentious here, everyone is normal, but well rounded and ridiculously smart. The Professors are incredible too and get involved with their students. The Administration treats you like shit. You get nickeled and dimed for every last thing in the name of growing the all-mighty endowment. Printing costs, movies cost, any amenity up for consideration is always paired with the corresponding rise in tuition that would accompany it. Every residence doesnt have wireless. Every move is motivated by liability and not by interest in the students. During the first week this year when freshmen experimented with alcohol for the first time, some were scared to seek out authority when they were sick, unfortunately with reason. Evanston Rocks. The El is close for big city antics if you take the initiative to go out into the world. Theres also a free shuttle on weekdays. Evanston itself is a much more manageable livable city with plenty of food and a great movie theater. Once you move off campus for housing though its a little expensive because you're competing with Chicago young professionals for living space

Northwestern is a fantastic balance between a large and a small school. It gets to the point where you recognize a lot of faces, but it's impossible to know everyone on a campus this size. The school is also small enough that you don't get lost in the shuffle in terms of the administration, teachers, etc. Class sizes are good (especially for journalism), and most teachers I've come across are extremely knowledgeable and practically begging to be approached with questions. I spend most of my time on campus in Norris (especially at the Norbucks). There's great food, comfy chairs, and an excellent outlet for my caffeine addiction. I also spend a lot of time in Evanston. It feels like a college town - most restaurants and cafes offer WiFi so you can sit there all day studying, eating, and/or talking to friends (because you will see a ton of people if you spend a Saturday afternoon in town). There's also a good number of stores and tons of delicious food options. People who know Northwestern know its a great school, but in California, most people have never heard of it or get it confused with Northeastern. There is almost no school pride when it comes to athletics. Football and basketball games are very sad, especially when the opposing team has more fans in the stands than we do. My biggest complaint is that it is COLD. So damn cold.

Evanston really feels like a college town because of all the restaurants, bars, cafes and shopping. Housing is expensive, its nice to have a campus that feels knit together.

Best thing about Northwestern is that it's going to get me a good job (I hope!) and the students here are smart--no annoyingly stupid questions get asked in class. School's a little small for me, but at least its large enough so that you can meet new people often. Most people don't know Northwestern in New England, but when people recognize it they assume I'm smart. I spend most of my time in the dorm. College town. I think NU's administration has some problems to work out, like miscommunication between departments, and the advising system for freshman is terrible. Mary Desler needs to find something better to do than try to get the fraternities and sororities in trouble...she needs to realize that perusing facebook is a pretty lame thing to do for someone her age. Frequent complaints are that midterms are almost every other week...and the intro classes are just as hard as other classes, which makes very little sense.

I love the size of the school and love how big the Greek scene is here, but I really wish our football and basketball teams were better, it would help foster more school spirit. We already have a lot of school spirit, but it would be nice to see it represented at these games. Having Chicago so close but not being right in it is great. Evanston is a great town, but I wouldn't necesarily call it a college town. The experience I will always remember was ow much fun I had in the homecoming parade on the float that we made. The weather is really what makes parts of the school year tough. People have less insentive to go out, so the weeks are always great times to go out, but the weekends are really lame, which is tough for me since I can rarely go out during the week

I feel like NU is the perfect in-between school, meaning you can make it whatever you want it to be. It's mid-size--as big or as small as you want it. The more involved you become the smaller the campus feels. There are tons of activities available to students here. It is the perfect compromise between bubble school and urban--Evanston is a college town, and Chicago is close by. You can get anything you need. Sadly, however, NU isn't very politically involved. There are political groups on campus, but they aren't a huge presence. I always thought of college as these revolutionary places full of staged protests and people in search or political justice. That just doesn't happen. I think the last time Sheridan was blocked off was in the 70s.

It's got all the right things, its a good size, it has incredible academics, its in a great city, its a beautiful school, etc. I would change how difficult it can be to get a class you want when you're a freshman, especially when you want to take a class that you want to major in and aren't able to. People are like wow, you're smart. I spend most of my time around my dorm, in tech, and up north around the frats. I spend alot of time at CVS and small cafes in evanston. I dont know much about the administration, i dont know controversies on campus, There is school pride but we're kind of down on our athletics, im still making memories, bad dorms.

The best thing about NU is that you are constantly surrounded by intelligent people who like to be challenged. At the same time, I would change the students' attitude. There are a lot of people on this campus who believe that their way is the only right way. People need to be more open. It is definitely not a college town. Evanston is a typical suburban town. School pride is an issue. Since academics are the main focus, the athletics department could use some work. Maybe people would have more pride if the athletic teams were more successful. Even so, the lax team is amazing but doesn't have enough support. There should be organizations on campus to promote school pride.

I love the people at NU and the great academic programs and extracurriculars. Theater is awesome and seeing shows is a great opportunity we have. I like Evanston and NU's location. I'd change dining hall hours to make them open more. There's a decent amount of school pride, but I'm not really into that that much anyway. The dorm bathrooms should get cleaned on the weekends.

I love Northwestern and I cannot imagine going to school anywhere else (except maybe Europe, but that's a bit unrealistic). I'm pretty satisfied and I can't think of anything significant that'd I'd really change, besides maybe better food in the dining halls. I think it's just the right size, so that you can take a lecture with 100+ people or just 12, and walk around campus and occasionally run into someone you know. Most people are either really proud that I go to Northwestern, or they've never heard of it (in my hometown, most people go to community college). Evanston is definitely not a college town. It's kind of hard to go out and have "legal" fun, as the only real entertainment within walking distance is the movie theater. I think that Northwestern's administration, while it does some stupid things sometimes, actually cares about what the students think. For example, with setting the alarm on the side doors of dorms, eventually the administration changed their minds when the students presented their side of the problem. I think there definitely is a lot of school pride, from going to football games and seeing everyone decked out in purple to DM.