University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Campus Life

I would best describe the food at most of the dining halls as average and what you would expect from dining halls. I did appreciate having many dining halls spread out across campus, but I thought there could've been a wider variety of options. I was lucky enough to live next to the best dining hall on campus which had pretty good food every week. The biggest problem was only having a certain time span in which you could go eat. There were a la carte options near some dining hall locations, some with hot food and others with just snacks, but I always wished there would be more of a restaurant style dining option in which I could use my credits. Overall, I think there could be improvements to the set up of the dining options for students, but I did miss having food readily available by the time I moved into an apartment.

All dining halls offer different meals. But they repeat monthly or weekly. Ike offers many different types of food and is well kept.

Ike is great and they have tons of options.

For the first year in the dorms, look around to find good food. Restaurants and cafes in the area are pretty good-- especially Monolos and Mary Ann's diner.

There is a wide variety of food among all the choices of dining halls but many are definitely below average. Whatever you have a taste for, whether it be as simple as pizza or a cultural food native to your heritage, it's out there somewhere. There are also late-night options for when you get cravings at a dining hall open from 8PM-Midnight or go to an A La Carte location to pick up snacks.

Dining is ok depending on where you stay; the best thing about UIUC is that it is a college town so you can literally walk down Green street and find anything good to eat from pizza to mexican to italian to chinese we have it all.

While the food is not 5 star restaurant quality there is always something for everyone, there are a variety of dining halls which can all be accessed as long as you have a meal plan with the university. If you don't like the menu available in your dorm's dining hall you can always check the dining hall app and see what is available at other dining halls.

The Ike is the best place to eat because of the greater options and special events that happen.

There are a ton of different cultural restaurants to eat at on campus. You can get anything from American food, to Greek food, to Asian food, etc. Legends is a great place to eat with a wide variety of different food and drinks to choose from.

If you love to eat food in general then UIUC is great. If you have finer taste or get tired of the same meals then you may want to anticipate buying food for yourself every now and again.

I am not in Greek life, but about 50% of the student population at UIUC is. I have many friends in Greek houses, and they all love their organizations, but I don't feel like I missed out on anything by not being in a sorority. UIUC is so diverse and has so many different student organizations that I never felt the need to join Greek life. If you are wanting to be involved in Greek life, there are a lot of houses to choose from and most of the people I know in Greek life are very friendly.

With 48 fraternities and 33 sororities on campus, you can find somewhere that fits your style. In the fall, you'll either hear all the sororities doing satanic chants everywhere or for a fraternity, you'll see students doing stupid pledge-tasks somewhere on campus. With over 40,000 students, you can find somewhere to fit. Even I did!

Greek life is very important to this campus. They don't play around you will see so many people involved in Greek life and it is really a brotherhood and sisterhood that means a lot to a lot of people here.

Rushing is always fun and there are multiple houses that one can choose from.

I am not very familiar with the Greek Life on campus.

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There are lots of fraternities and sororities on campus! One of the largest systems in the nation

greek life is huge on campus. but, it is not unavoidable. if students are looking to get involved with greek life, they will be welcomed with open arms into one of our 60 fraternities or 37 sororities on campus. there are various types of fraternities and sororities for all types of students. the social fraternities and sororities provide the stereotypical "crazy" college experience. ranked as the #1 party school of 2015, we clearly do not mess around when we say crazy. for those involved in greek life, parties are frequent, during the week as well as over the weekends. 32% of the chapters on the university of illinois' campus are culturally based. these chapters allow students of similar cultural backgrounds, typically minority ethnicities, to connect with one another and grow a familial bond. there are also many religious based fraternities and sororities on campus - lutheran, catholic, christian, and jewish chapters. professional sororities and fraternities provide students with a resource to network and expand interest in their intended major. keep in mind that this is a university with a street commonly known to the student body as "frat row" and a recreational area commonly known as "frat park" for self-explanatory reasons. about 23% of the undergraduate population is involved in some way with greek life, but also remember that that means that 77% of the undergraduate population is not involved with greek life. if a student wants to get involved with greek life, there are plenty of opportunities here for them to do so. however, if a student chooses that they do not want to get involved, there is absolutely no pressure to do so and there are still plenty of other fun things to do on campus.

So many options!

#1 Party School for a reason! As everyone says, but we do have a large greek community and partying is not the only thing the greek life has to offer.