<p>what makes u love wustl?</p>
<p>1) Beautiful campus and dorms</p>
<p>2) No TA's teaching classes</p>
<p>3) Approachable Professors who care about the undergrads</p>
<p>4) Smart student body</p>
<p>5) Warm, helpful support staff</p>
<p>6) Forest Park</p>
<p>7) Free passes for public transportation</p>
<p>8) Flexible/Easy to take classes in different Wustl schools or transfer between Wustl schools</p>
<p>9) Lots of opportunities for undergrads to do research</p>
<p>10) Great size. Around 6,000 undergrads. Enough students to always find and experience new people, but small enough that you always run into someone you know and don't feel like a number.</p>
<p>Feel free to add to this list!!</p>
<p>The Loop</p>
<p>The Food</p>
<p>W.I.L.D</p>
<p>THE LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOPPPPPPPPP!!!!</p>
<p>Okay, I don't go to WashU, but I LOVE The Loop!!!!</p>
<p>what exactly is "the loop"?</p>
<p>
what exactly is "the loop"?
About</a> the Delmar Loop.</p>
<p>There is also the Central</a> West End, which you can get to for free, using your U-Pass.</p>
<p>As a parent of a WashU student, the cult of WashU students saying "I love WashU". That's incredible!</p>
<p>1) Second the professors helping out part, the professors in my classes were really open to discussion and had help sessions frequently, sometimes multiple in the same week. The chem lab professor visited each lab period to make sure things run smoothly.</p>
<p>2) Great food</p>
<p>3) Kids are cool</p>
<p>4) Girls are pretty cute- much better than people give WUSTL credit for</p>
<p>5) Friendly Atmosphere</p>
<p>6) Strong premed advising, plenty of premed resources</p>
<p>7) Very helpful extracurricular departments (research, community service, religious etc.)</p>
<p>8) Campus is nice</p>
<p>9) Diverse student body</p>
<p>10) Close to the city, yet has a suburban feel</p>
<p>11) Variety in dining services</p>
<p>12) Chancellor is awesome</p>
<p>13) 13 is an unlucky number</p>
<p>14) Advising system is great</p>
<p>15) Classes are challenging but interesting</p>
<p>16) Lots of focus programs/ special programs</p>
<p>17) Professors are intelligent</p>
<p>18) Telesis is helpful</p>
<p>19) South 40 is a great community</p>
<p>20) Close to metro</p>
<p>Now, there are also things that are bad about WUSTL. The cluster system IMO isn't that great, and the weather is worse than what I am used to. But I am happy about my decision, can't really imagine myself anywhere else.</p>
<p>^Here's to not having the cluster system in engineering!</p>
<p>I like the campus... but I hate all the buildings that have the exact same facades...</p>
<p>What's the cluster system? And, what's wrong with it?</p>
<p>"A Cluster within an Area is a group of related courses that are closely linked by a focus on a subject or by a method of analysis. More than 250 clusters exist, and new clusters can be proposed by departments, faculty or students. Clusters are assigned at least one of the four Distribution areas [Natural Sciences & Mathematics (NS), Social Sciences (SS), Language & the Arts (LA), or Textual & Historical Studies (TH)].</p>
<p>Students take 8 to 9 units within each of the four Distribution Areas, and at least 6 of the units in each area must be in a cluster. "</p>
<p>That's a quote from the Wustl.edu site. The idea behind clusters is to require you to take a few classes (outside of your major) that actually make sense together... As a freshman, I know that my major and minor will take care of the NS and TH clusters, i just have to take 16 credits total later on that complete the other two. You'd have to ask an upperclassman to really find out whether these clusters require going out of one's way much, but mainly the whole cluster system is just a confusing when one is scheduling classes.
The system only applies to Arts and Sciences, as its goal is to make the degree more liberal arts-ish.</p>