The university is a home to so many international students, that itself is so brilliant. It has many places to eat (over 40, I believe). Coming from a small college with only three places to eat, this was a big deal to me.
It has many classes you can take that you cannot find anywhere else. Since it is such a big campus, they have the ability to offer more programs. With that, you can take probably anything you could ever imagine (I’ve taken courses pertaining to dinosaur extinction, food science, and European street life history). I’ve also had the pleasure from learning under remarkable professors and TA’s, such as my TA who is a cardiologist, and my professor who is the head of the health policy department, who has worked at several different universities including at University of Toronto as the health policy person.