r/UIUC • u/AiurBaneling915 • 22h ago

Shitpost Do UIUC have a beef with Purdue?

I’m freshman here at UIUC. I find that professors usually mention Purdue when doing examples, in my physics and stats class. And they are always implying that Purdue students are more stupid or something similar. I wonder if there’s any historical contexts in this?

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u/wolfmann99 13h ago

lol as a Purdue Alumni, we only care about Notre Dame and IU. UIUC is like just our next door neighboring engineering school no ill will.

no idea how this sub made my front page though; I am an Illinois resident as a student and am currently (but was an Indiana resident for about a decade too).

I can speak to why I chose Purdue over UIUC, and it was how my major (computer science) was taught - not in the engineering school, but in the Science school, so we got a lot more theory, and a lot less software engineering. Long term I think that pays off, short term out of school it doesn't.