Actually, I picked the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign over Rutgers for mostly academic reasons. (I lived in NJ since immigrating in 82 and attended college in UIUC)
It pretty much one-ups Rutgers in every category... created Mosaic, houses the NCSA and the CAVE, lotsa important industry alums, comparably as important to the Chicagoland as Rutgers is to NY metro, graduates just as many people, and is one of the priority targets to be nuked by the USSR during the cold war, heh.
Oh, and the trump card... we got an old plot of corn... damn oldest plot of corn... THERE!
It pretty much one-ups Rutgers in every category... created Mosaic, houses the NCSA and the CAVE, lotsa important industry alums, comparably as important to the Chicagoland as Rutgers is to NY metro, graduates just as many people, and is one of the priority targets to be nuked by the USSR during the cold war, heh.
Oh, and the trump card... we got an old plot of corn... damn oldest plot of corn... THERE!
