You're Not in High School Anymore...

Introduction
Purdue has some incredible teachers, mainly focused in the Agriculuture and engineering departments; however there are some others that are scattered throughout the rest of the college. If you never learned to study or had to study in high school, I'd advise learning some basics as soon as possible, I never had to put forth effort in high school and ended up getting abused by my classes the first year here. While there are majors that allow you to party excessively (haha), you need to realize that there are classes that are pretty challenging and will require you to put in a lot of time, if you tend to coast though things and not care, I would stay away from Purdue.

Campus Life and Social Life
Weekends at Purdue are for getting drunk. That's it: end of story. After a week of classes the best thing to do is to drink and try and forget the hell you just went through. There are a lot of intramurals, the football team can be pretty good, basketball will get better, womens basketball is one of the best in the nation, and there are other extrememly talented teams here also. The worst or best part dependong on how you see it is never seeing anyone from high school and meeting new people, in a campus of 40,000, it isn't hard to beileve. Academics
Engineering is hard; if you hear someone say that, laugh at them and say, it more like impossible. The workload for that major is out of this world. There are also some majors in the school of agriculture i.e. pre-vet, biochemistry, that have very difficult classes. Some professors are the best teachers you will ever have, others make you wonder how they got the job. Most TA's on the math and science areas speak horrible, broken English. It's not uncommon to have at least one TA that you can't understand at all.

Student Body
Most students here are pretty laid back. However there are a lot of Indian and Oriental people, they tend to be engineering majors and pretty focused on their schoolwork and that alone. Other than that, most students at Purdue are from Indiana, which is up to your personal opinion whether it's good or bad.

In Closing...
Overall Purdue is great, yeah we have some absolutely worthless people on the staff, but they are the minority. Most teachers genuinely want there classes to succeed and do well. While we aren't at the party status that IU or other notable "party" schools have, it ain't too shabby here on the weekends.