First Choice

Introduction
Northwestern was my first choice. I loved the area, to have a city around it. Chicago is great, I mean you have Magnificent Mile, all these different kinds of people you have so much stuff to do here.

Campus Life and Social Life
I signed up for Salsa, I signed up for Blackboard Magazine, all these different kinds of clubs, dance groups and you can just be over involved by your first day if school so you just have to take it easy and just watch out and see what you really want to do.

Class sizes are usually maybe 15-30 but then you still have your big lecture rooms that have about maybe 200 students, maybe even more. The workload can be heavy. I mean if you do your work it’s not as heavy. If you wait around like I do, wait till last minute it’s going to be ridiculous. Don’t wait till the weekend to do your homework.

Some times teachers give your too much reading like maybe 350 pages of reading a week, which is ridiculous, that’s like graduate work. Then you get some professors who are like okay, read this one book and just come to class. Advertisement
Academics
A lot of professors I have know me on a first-name basis. We have a thing called C-TEX, which is basically a like on-line grading system for teachers in classes where you can rate your class so people took the class after you can see how the class was and see how you liked it.

I would definitely say we’re overachievers. I think in class you definitely see the pompous kid raising his hand and trying to sound all intellectual, “I have this idea about, you know, Tran nationality and blah, blah, blah, blah nobody cares.”

And then you have the other students that are really just laid back and chill. I mean, you have a range of students like the ones who really try to impress the teachers and you have the other ones who just like to go out and party, which gives a nice mix.

Student Body
You still have that kind of feeling that you have—that you’re here to be the overachiever because you were the overachiever in high school.

Sometimes I think we get into that pre-professional mentality that we have to be here to get this job, to get the money and to live this boring life in the suburbs.

In Closing...
If you can stand like zero below wind chill, then you can come to NWU.
The weather’s fickle, one day it can be like sunny and it can be like March and then the next day it can be raining or it can be snowing even.

I just transferred into the department I'm in. I find it’s very helpful as a smaller school. It’s smaller than the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences. I know my teachers a little better than I would in the Weinberg classes.