<p>Going to admitted students day as an engineering major. Anything I should definitely check out? Any good places to go for lunch?</p>
<p>congrats! well obviously you should check out the engineering quad (its in the northern area of campus) and the grainger library. since most of your freshman classes will be pretty general (chem, math, etc), do check out the main quad as well. i’m not in cs, but if you want to check out the computing centers, i’ve heard they’re pretty cool. and since uiuc is such a big research school, do try and check out the research labs. roger adams lab, chemical and life science lab, and the institute for genomic biology are neat places to meet if you’re in synthetic biology/bioengineering/chemical engineering. </p>
<p>as for lunch, mia za’s just opened after being burnt down. but check out papa dels as well.</p>
<p>yeah for food defitinely papa dels they have the best deep dish pizza:)</p>
<p>Thanks! I will definitely visit these places!</p>
<p>I went to Za’s it was good. I liked it</p>
<p>Cool! what kind of food is Za’s?</p>
<p>I went there for a summer engineering camp. and I absolutely loved this asain place called spoon house! I tried to ramen there once, and I have no idea what they do to it, but it is the best ramen I have ever tried lol. And I may be going to the same admitted student day, is yours on monday the 26th?</p>
<p>also visiting during spring break! see you there!</p>
<p>I’m going April 5th and 6th.</p>
<p>Would you recommend visiting a class? My mom wants to visit Intro to Electrical and Computer Engineering</p>
<p>If you are CE / CS major, go check out siebel center (where most of your CS classes are held). **dont forget to checkout the 1404 lecture hall 
[Google</a> Maps](<a href=“http://g.co/maps/wrhd5]Google”>http://g.co/maps/wrhd5)</p>
<p>Electrical and Computer Engineering classes are held at Everitt laboratory. (The building isn’t as pretty as siebel)
[everitt</a> uiuc - Google Maps](<a href=“http://g.co/maps/wpgw2]everitt”>http://g.co/maps/wpgw2)</p>
<p>Update: Flew into Illinois about an hour ago. Going to UIUC tomorrow to visit and Friday for the Admitted Student Day!</p>
<p>@yodelo</p>
<p>Can you post your experiences there? I might be unable to make a trip down… I’m also looking at engineering (CS). Especially interested in class sizes, student-professor interaction, opportunities after graduation/while in school.</p>
<p>Day 1:
Flew into UIUC, which has a really small airport! There were only 5 gates and about 20 people waiting for flights. We drove to UIUC for a preview, and we had a hard time finding the information center. We ended up driving in circles for a few minutes until we went to the Campbell Alumni Center who told us to go to the admissions and records building. there, we met a nice lady who gave us a campus map and answered a lot of our questions.</p>
<p>There is no free parking on campus. You either need a permit or have to use the meter no matter where you go: we asked a police officer and an employee about this. We ended up inserting 4 quarters to walk around for about an hour.</p>
<p>The East side of campus where we parked, next to the Admissions and records building had a few people walking around, but across the Kannert Performing Arts Center (which is amazing inside), the Quad was teeming with students walking and sitting down, playing sports, etc. </p>
<p>It was still difficult to locate certain buildings, because the map they gave us only has building numbers on it, and the index on the back is very confusing. that was one area that gave us a lot of trouble.</p>
<p>If you come on the weekend there’s plenty of spots for free parking</p>
<p>Thanks for the update @yodelo! Did you guys fly into williard from chicago?</p>
<p>Yes! We flew from Chicago. You can only fly from Chicago or Dallas.</p>
<p>Day 2:
Woke up bright and early to visit a 8:00AM ECE class, but apparently it was just a lab, and they were working with a partner on a project the whole time. There were 3 TA’s (no professor present), who helped answer a lot of questions. </p>
<p>I left pretty quickly and went to the Advising office for ECE in Everitt Hall. Usually you need an appointment, but since I came when they just opened, they were able to see me. The lady who saw me (Sara) was great, she gave me some sample 4 year plans for ECE and was able to answer a lot of my questions.</p>
<p>At 10, I went to the Daily Student Visit, where they gave an hour presentation and an hour campus tour. The presentation was great, and they hit a lot of points.
-Most intro class sizes are really large, but as you move on to your technical courses, they get smaller quickly. I think she said 60% had 25 students or less?
-You rank 6 residence halls in order of preference. Someone asked which one was the best, and the concensus seemed to think that it depeneded. For example, some have AC in the rooms, some have a dining hall in the ground floor, and Inkleberry has a 2 minute walk to the nation’s largest dining hall.
-The campus tour was amazing (about an hour long) we got to go into an awesome residence hall. It looked really new with glass all along the outside and I liked the carpeted halls and the huge lounge on the ground floor. The rooms were the typical: tiny and cinderblocks.
-The campus was so beautiful, especially the engineering side of campus. They get more funds for rennovation, so it’s usually better maintained and has newer buildings. The libraries were stunning, enormous and had plenty of computers, study areas, etc. There are plenty of spawling grassy areas, and there are 3 state of the art recreation centers, with everything you need.</p>
<p>I went on the Engineering tour afterwards, which was extremely crowded. The campus tour was of a group of 7-8. The engineering tour was 70-100 people per group. However, we did see a lot of neat locations such as their concrete canoes, and 3 million pound compressing machine. </p>
<p>Overall, UIUC was a lot different than I expected. Unlike older universities with rusty red brick buildings, the whole campus looks modern and refreshed from the huge grassy fields to the large libraries to the towering but state of the art residence halls and computer science building!</p>
<p>My only regret is going to visit. Because now I really want to go, but I can’t because Out of State of tuition is ridiculous!</p>