Student review [#81732] for Mechanical Engineering
at Indiana University Bloomington - IU

What an amazing school I have the pleasure of attending! If you’re currently a high school student researching where you should spend the next 4 years of your life, don’t worry, I sat in your seat for months, looking though the hundreds of supposedly “top” universities all over the US. Do I want to go to a small school, where my class sizes will be smaller and I might actually get a chance to work with my professor, and not just a TA? Or maybe a big school would be better for me, I can definitely make more money if I graduate from there, right? Many of these types of questions had me stuck in an endless loop for months, exploring the benefits and drawbacks to each category of school. In the end, I decided to attend the University of Indiana, and let me tell you, I couldn’t have chosen better. Despite the beforementioned fact that there are just shy of 37,000 undergraduate students, I feel as if I am attending a school half that size. Although some of my general education classes are a little bit bigger in size, I always feel as if I am working alongside all the students in my classes, and the professors are always willing and able to help students with questions outside and during class. To me, when I look at the list of benefits I made for big and small schools, it seems as though I have found the perfect medium here. I know all of my professors and have good relationships with all of them, while also having a beautiful campus I get to walk around every day with thousands of other students who match my interests, and are all welcoming of new friends into the community.