text: Maybe my review is a little different than the reviews you have read about UIUC You see I was a student there from to I graduated when dinosaurs roamed the quadrangle and women had to be in their dorms tucked in by pm on weekdays and am on weekendsnnWhen I was at UIUC and this is NOT a misprint one semesters instate tuition and fees were semester It only cost about per YEAR if you lived and ate in a university residence hallnnAnd I remember some of the mouth watering meals they served like SO IS no not the scouring pads Salisbury steak with gook on it many variations of mystery meat turkey tetrazzini and so onnnFour semesters of ROTC and Physical Education were mandatory wasting six hours perfectly good time every week a time better spent sleeping fooling around drinking beer or pursuing other intellectual interestsnnThe university was less selective in admissions at that time It would take almost all high school graduates who scored in the top half of their classes and would take a few from the third quartile too Of course then as now they hired semiliterates to stock the football and basketball teams The Daily Illinis Roger Ebert frequently wrote sarcastic articles about Dick Butkus painting him as somebody who had no business taking up space therennIn reality the students who were not in about the top quartile of their high school teams usually left the university by the end of their first year so UIUC did graduate topranked students as they do today Indeed I had a roommate who flunked out in his senior yearnnI will tell you that UIUC had exceedingly high standards and I did receive a rigorous and challenging education which qualified me for admission to another Big Ten universitys graduate school and a subsequent career in engineering and eventually middle management in marketing Yes marketingnnThings do not change over time Freshmen got drunk at Kams and puked all over the sidewalk Selfstyled activists would try to save the world from all of its injustices especially if a TV camera were focused on them guys belched and farted the passenger trains tofrom Chicago were late and a major objective of almost all students was to get laidnnAll kidding aside I am very proud of my experience and education at the YOU of I and I will always be fond and grateful for my four years there