Wonderful people, seems really great school. Great community. Unfortunately it didn't work out for…read moremy son to go there.

Maybe I'm partial, and that I am...but this school is/was awesome…read more I was a non-trad student there (didn't live on campus, was of drinking age when I started) but I clearly went there for the education, which was by far one of the best choices I've ever made. I loved my professors in my dept. and knew each one by name, and them likewise with me. In my senior year, many of my classes had only 6-7 other students in them. Classes were interesting and varied... where else can you take a Film Genre class that focuses on what students believe to be the 7 best films largely ignored??? I also took a Voices of the Holocaust class where we sat in discussion, read plenty of books, and watched a ton of movies and documentaries--by far my favorite class ever. If English is your thing, take the Beloit Fiction Journal class-- and all you do is read short stories submitted by hopeful (and established) authors and decide by vote who should be submitted into the latest journal...way interesting and way chill and fun. And those classes had nothing to do with my major-- but since it's a liberal arts college--I was able to take them in not only my junior but senior year as well. I transferred over from a 2 year school and really enjoyed my education there. Profs are helpful, engaging, and fun...classes are challenging, motivating, and varied....people are strange as hell and it's great. Don't visit expecting jocks and sorority girls, this is a unique college that values individuality-- and you definitely get that here. Squirrels on campus provide endless amusement. I once saw one pop out of a garbage can with a huge slice of cantaloupe in it's hands. And get the Beloit bagel for breakfast, and the sugar cookies with frosting---known as our "crack cocaine gotta have its" on campus. I really knew nothing about the campus life since I lived a little bit away and am more in my mid 20's--and was a little old for the lifestyle there, but I loved every minute of my schooling. But Wisconsin winters really suck.

A camp like the ones you see in the movies... from the brown and white cabins to the shade-lending…read moretrees dotting the grounds to the dining hall full of families and foodfight instigating kids and the greeter, Tom, who after about 40 years as Greeter still speaks in a charming Scottish accent and smiles as you spoon up your mashed potatoes... from the arts and crafts buildilng where tye-dyed t-shirts are forever hanging out to dry and the waterfront where kids swim, sail, flip canoes and kayaks (I used to be the one to haul them back in, waterlogged and apologetic...) and work on their tans... to the music that floats from the huge tent in the summer out over Lake Geneva during Music by the Lake concerts. This place is magical. I worked at this camp for four summers and I think I'll always be nostalgic for those years. In all my time there, I've never met a camper who was ready to go when their week was up. Even the kid who sliced his foot open at the waterfront on a zebra mussel and had to get stitches - he was back down at the dock the next day, asking me to look the other way while he did a backflip into the lake (against the rules, but whatever...) Camp rocks. Unfortunately, Aurora University (an actual college in Illinois) bought it out about five years ago and is now in the process of phasing out all the summer camping groups which makes me incredibly sad. The "camp" will now be known primarily as a "college" where people can get masters degrees in things like education and music and recreation. Which is fine and all. Just one of those things you wish could last forever.

Kinda borin, some hot people, some mid..., food okay, my tour guide was a red head....jk i love…read moregingers but anyways my tour guide was weird.. uni of platteville has little to now diversity, and is just kinda plain, MIT is way cooler BUTTT UNI OF PLATTEVILLE HAS ICE CREAM AN MACHINE SOOO ITS FUNNER TO SOME PEOPLE BUT TO ME IT WAS OKAY

So every student has a lil' pride for their Alma Mater and I am no different in this particular…read morecase. UWP is one of 13 (give or take a few) UW schools located in Wisconsin. Located in Southwest Wisconsin this campus has its strengths and draw backs as does every college and campus. The best part for me was that it was a great college to get in, get your degree, and get the h-izzz-eck out. Other highlights for me included: the ratio of more males to females on campus (due to the school of Engineering), the replacement of older buildings on campus (Farwell Boeble Hall), very affordable (especially if you can encounter in-state tuition fees), small classes, a generally really nice and helpful student body (something typical of the Midwest), and 2nd street - a street located off of Main St that has a decent number of college bars. Some dislikes are as follows: Not much diversity on campus (everyone looks like they walked out of a Sears catalog for the most part), since the mid 90's ( Men's Basketball - Bo Ryan era) they really haven't had much to brag about regarding athletics, and UWP is located in a small community that lacks things other than drinking to occupy free time. I commuted to school everyday - so another gripe I have is that it is common knowledge amongst students that they will never have a "snow day" / cancel school on campus due to weather because they last time they did the city sold out of kegs and several student were jumping off of high balconies into snow piles and broke limbs and whatnot. Over all UWP was good to me and I enjoyed my college experience!

Beautiful campus, enjoyed the Seaver Center, great game, fun student section, close to great places…read moreto eat and near the Puri Family YMCA. It did not disappoint. Thank you!

I worked out here for 1 year and 4 months. I started when I was 20 years old. I worked at the…read morecollege through a company called sodexo. After working here for only 5 months I had a tragedy and experianced a apartment fire and lost my best friend in the fire. (My dog chloe) my managers and bosses were sympathetic to my loss and gave me the time off i needed to put my life back together. Aside from this I was a housekeeper and enjoyed my work and seeing the people i worked with on a daily basis. The campus was very nice and maintained outside (I helped with gardens, and weeding) and was also friends with the maintenance department. We were able to use golf carts around campus to get from building to building. We attended regular meetings and was invited to some of the events at the college. I enjoyed working here, I dont regret meeting anyone from this work place, and I do miss them. A lot.

This is to review the University of Wisconsin - Madison. I chose to work at U.W. - Madison…read morebecause my undergrad and graduate degrees from U.C. Berkeley concerned vitamin research. As an undergrad, I did lab research on vitamin B6, and for my Ph.D., I did lab research on folic acid and vitamin B12. And so, it was a no-brainer that I should do my post-doctoral work at U.W. - Madison. U.W. - Madison is renowned for many of the early discoveries in the field of vitamin research, for example, for its introduction of the rat as the animal of choice for performing research on vitamins, amino acid metabolism, protein requirements, and so on. It was at U.W. - Madison, that the vitamins were first classified as being, "fat-soluble A" and "water-soluble B." At Madison, all of my work concerned vitamin K. Prof. H. DeLuca, and his laboratory staff at U.W. -- Madison are renowned for their work on vitamin D and vitamin A. SCIENTIFIC AND ARTISTIC ENVIRONMENT. U.W.--Madison is home to 20 Nobel Prize winners and 33 winners of the Pulitzer Prize. The Nobel Prize winners include, Joshua Lederberg (1958, Medicine), Har Gobind Khorana (1968, Medicine), Howard Temin (1975, Medicine), and John Van Vleck (1977, Physics), William C. Campbell, (2015 Medicine), Oliver Smithies (2007 Medicine). During my 4 years of residence and employment in Madison, the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art was my connection to the world of art and, in particular to the group of Chicago-based artists known as The Chicago Imagists. An exhibit of Richard Lostutter's paintings at this museum inspired me to drive to Chicago, and view paintings by the Chicago Imagists, including paintings by Ed Paschke, Roger Brown, and Sarah Canright. SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT. The social environment at U.W. -- Madison is provided by the many Mini-Courses that are taught at the two student unions (Union South and Memorial Union). Four of the people in my laboratory were members of a clogging group, The Kickapoo Cloggers, and they suggested that I learn. And so, I took courses in clogging, tap dancing, jazz exercise, and ballroom dancing, all of these being taught in Union South. When I arrived in Madison, I was a total nerd and had no skill in dancing. But after two years of training, I was good enough to perform, and I performed with my group in front of audiences numbering from about 100 to about 500, and these included performances at State Capitol building (see, attached photo of me performing, YOU NEED TO CLICK ON THIS PHOTO TO SEE ALL OF IT), and at bluegrass festivals in Edgerton, WI, Amherst, WI, Edgerton, WI, Ashland, WI, Mount Horeb, WI, Verona, WI, Kahoka, MO, Delevan, WI, and Rockford, IL. Football games are a big deal at Univ. Wisconsin -- Madison. Please see my photograph of the marching band carrying sousaphones. The marching band plays at every football game. CULTURAL AND AGRICULTURAL ENVIRONMENT. Wisconsin was settled by immigrants arriving from German and Norway. The Memorial Union has a Stiftskeller where the walls bear murals having a German theme (see, the photo of me in the Stiftskeller, and a close-up photo of one of the murals). Regarding Norwegians, Sytende Mai (independence day) is a holiday that is celebrated in some towns in Wisconsin, for example, by an annual parade in Stoughton, WI. The nearby town of Mount Horeb is a center for Norwegian culture. Madison, Roxbury, Milwaukee, and other towns are distinguished by their German restaurants. In addition, every year a few farms in the Madison area feature, DAY ON THE FARM, where any person can visit a farm and see displays relating to crop harvesting, veterinary science, or cheese-making.

Go Bucky! Are you kidding me? Be True to Your School. It's got to get 5-Stars!…read more After trying two other schools (Sarah Palin still has me beat!) I met my mentor, bassist Richard Davis, and the rest is history. Yes, a true mentor/apprentice relationship based on daily contact. Not the "mentor" relationship some American Idol kids call listening to someone's CDs and mimicking them. My mentor woke daily at 4a.m. Sometimes he would call me at 6:30a.m., wake me up, and ask what I was doing. "Practicing" was always my sleepy answer and he never called B.S. He gave me the keys to his office as a Grad student and I never took advantage of it...save for the few times I spent hours listening to his extensive jazz LP collection. A Love Supreme never sounded so good! Political Correctness (PC) was de rigeur when I transfered there, and UW was the hotbed center of it all, for better and for worse. Chancellor Donna Shalala (later Clinton's Secretary of Health and Human Services) presided over my Undergraduate graduation ceremonies. A Top-notch research school, we didn't have to rely on our sports teams to be the sole attention of our University. But Barry Alvarez brought the Football Badgers to the Rose Bowl in 1994, '99, and 2000. Ron Dayne won the Heisman Award in '99. Cha! And when we owned a team's ass, like the UCLA Bruins, we were confident enough to not have to root against them, in games that didn't matter to us. Our Marching Band high steps. Yours does not. Our Marching Band kicks your marching band's ass. During Fifth Quarter, too. Does your school even know how to Polka??? Sections O-P. And although having a 35,000 student body doesn't hurt, Madison's reputation as a state Capitol and a great place to live just added to our quality of life while at UW. Lake Mendota and Lake Monona- beautiful places for water sports during the summer, and XX skiiing and ice fishing in the winter. Bike lanes- bikes rule in Madison. Cars do not. The UW Rathskellar and Terrace. The German style Rathskellar provided ample space for eating, studying, debating, wasting time, drinking beer, watching bands for free. And the Terrace, overlooking Lake Mendota, provided all of the same in a beautiful outdoor setting. Be True to Your School! Go Big Red!

Our girl joined a weekend gymnastics camp at the university. She seemed to have really enjoyed her…read moretime there and meeting a bunch of new gymnasts.

Not a good environment for non-white students. Sadly, it's been like this for years and they need…read morebetter basketball coaches!! Basketball is a spontaneous game and not to be programmed. Hire coaches with experience and who are fair!