UiUC vs UW-Madison for Business major

rainyswish
Wed, 23 Jun 2010 21:33:13 +0000

If you have a lot of credits to transfer that is even better. That means you can finish up your gen ed requirements freshman year and will not worry about it in your later years. In fact, if you have a lot of transferred credits it might be possible for you to even get a double major or graduate early.
Having a car is convenient, but definitely not needed. I do not have a car, and the MTD bus service takes me just about anywhere I want to reach. One of the disadvantages about the bus is the waiting time to go to the mall. It takes about 30 minutes for the bus to go from campus to the mall because there are several stops. If you want to travel around campus the bus route is really convenient (the same bus comes around every 10 mins and plenty of other buses overlap the destinations). The campus is indeed big, students tend to pick classes that are located near one another. Even if you have a car, I do not believe you can get any further than a bus in 10 minutes (the amount of time between the end of one class to the beginning of the next class). For your Freshman year, the classes are primarily located around the main quad because everyone is trying to fulfill their gen ed requirements. Since you already finished math, the Macroeconomic (I suggest Esfahani over Baer for professor) courses are usually located at Foellinger Auditorium. Communication 101 is usually located at the Armory. Business 101 is usually located at the Business Instructional Facility. Computer Science 105 is usually at the Main Library. The business courses (Accounting, Finance) are at the Business Quad (David Kinely Hall, Business Instructional Facility, and Wohlers). Science courses are located at main quad. I think you are most likely to stay around the main quad and the Business quad. I doubt you ever need to take a course on the Engineering quad.
Urbana/Champaign is really small. If you really want to go anywhere near Chicago, you can take the Greyhound/Amtrack by riding the normal MTD bus to the station. Or you can take Illini Shuttle or LEX Express to Oakbrooks or something and then transfer to another transportation (I’m not really familiar).
I live on campus but not in dorms anymore. I’m from many places haha lets just say I’m Asian.
And yes…I lost quite a bit of weight and grew an inch as well :D.