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| - I am a proud Badger alum (with one of those pesky liberal arts degrees), and I wholeheartedly adore this school.
It really has the whole package as far as a university goes: beauty, brains, athletics and antics.
First, the campus is incredible, sandwiched between Lake Mendota and Lake Monona. It's pedestrian and bike-friendly, and most students don't have cars. I usually biked to class, most of which were held in Van Hise, a fairly unattractive piece of architecture. The more historic buildings are much nicer (they are always doing construction to build or upgrade something or another). I used to study at Helen C. White library and play frisbee on Bascom Hill between classes. And spending an evening at the student union or The Rathskeller... or better yet, on the Terrace itself, listening to music, playing cards, drinking beer and watching the sailboats (or that one boat that looks like a vintage car)... it's heaven.
I lived in the Sellery dorms, which are these outdated high-rise buildings, but I loved it. They had everything a college kid needed, including cute boys. The campus food was nothing special, except that Ed's would make these delicious mint-Oreo blizzards, and they delivered pizza, nachos, sandwiches and even Raisinets right to your dorm door if it was too cold to go outside. Pop's was the standard cafeteria, and I don't know how many of us ended up accidentally stealing those huge pink water glasses... I may still have one. After the dorms, there are lots of slumlords in Madison who will be happy to have you from sophomore until senior year. :)
Obviously, I'm aware of UW's reputation as a party school, but I kind of embrace it. The student body at Madison is generally bright, fun and has it together, so much so that they can party from Thursday 'til Sunday and still make it to class on time.
As far as academics, I think the language programs are some of the best in the country. They offer more languages here than at most (if not all) American universities. I majored in Spanish Literature, and I liked my program a lot, though there were one or two tenured teachers that were a little unorthodox. I also took a lot of science classes for my pre-med requirements (there's no actual pre-med major here though). I absolutely my physiology and anatomy classes (the lab was with real cadavers, which is pretty cool for undergrads) and didn't love physics... the rest of the science classes fell somewhere in between. I didn't take advantage of having a major adviser as much as I should have, but I'm sure that there are some great mentors in all of the UWs departments.
Last, I have to talk about Badger football, because there is really nothing like being in the stands of Camp Randall on a fall afternoon (or even being outside the stands, playing flip-cup with your friends' alumni parents under the falling leaves). Everybody is wearing red and everybody knows the cheers and everybody sings the songs... and everybody knows when to jump around. It's a crazy feeling to be part of something so big. I'm getting chills just thinking about it.
On Wisconsin!
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