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Purdue University Students Tell It Like It Is
Boilermaker:
* 1) One who makes or repairs boilers.
* 2) A drink of whisky with a beer chaser.
* 3) A student who attends Purdue University.
If you can see the third definition of a Boilermaker in your future, you need to buy the College Prowler guidebook to Purdue! A campus tour or a brochure isn't enough...we can make you feel like an insider before you ever step foot on campus! Hear what Purdue students have to say about their school:
Some of the best things about Purdue are:
* Fountain runs
* The awesome Big Ten athletics
* The beautiful campus-so pretty, and so easy to navigate that it must have been designed by an engineer
* Sledding down Slayter Hill on lunch trays
* Hot boys playing Frisbee on the Memorial Mall without their shirts
Some of the worst things about Purdue are:
* The extreme boredom of the Lafayette/West Lafayette surroundings
* The Midwestern weather
* The parking Nazis who slap a ticket on your car the instant the meter expires
* Foreign TAs
* 7:30 a.m. classes
And did you know that . . .
The famous Muppet character, Kermit the Frog, was named after a professor of philosophy at Purdue University. Theodore Kermit Scott grew up in Leland, Mississippi, with Muppet creator Jim Henson, who borrowed Scott's middle name for his most famous creation.
Twenty-two astronauts hail Purdue as their alma mater, including Neil Armstrong and Eugene Cernan, respectively the first and last men to set foot on the moon, and Jerry Ross, the man who has been on more space walks than any other astronaut. Purdue alumni have flown more than one-third of all U.S. manned flights into space, which has led to Purdue's epithet of "the Cradle of Astronauts."
Find out if Purdue truly has something for you, straight from the students' mouths.
Visiting campus isn't enough.
Read our Purdue University guide and discover what it feels like to be on campus for 4 years.
Discover if Purdue is Right For You.
Purdue University Students Tell It Like It Is
Boilermaker:
* 1) One who makes or repairs boilers.
* 2) A drink of whisky with a beer chaser.
* 3) A student who attends Purdue University.
If you can see the third definition of a Boilermaker in your future, you need to buy the College Prowler guidebook to Purdue! A campus tour or a brochure isn't enough...we can make you feel like an insider before you ever step foot on campus! Hear what Purdue students have to say about their school:
Some of the best things about Purdue are:
* Fountain runs
* The awesome Big Ten athletics
* The beautiful campus-so pretty, and so easy to navigate that it must have been designed by an engineer
* Sledding down Slayter Hill on lunch trays
* Hot boys playing Frisbee on the Memorial Mall without their shirts
Some of the worst things about Purdue are:
* The extreme boredom of the Lafayette/West Lafayette surroundings
* The Midwestern weather
* The parking Nazis who slap a ticket on your car the instant the meter expires
* Foreign TAs
* 7:30 a.m. classes
And did you know that . . .
The famous Muppet character, Kermit the Frog, was named after a professor of philosophy at Purdue University. Theodore Kermit Scott grew up in Leland, Mississippi, with Muppet creator Jim Henson, who borrowed Scott's middle name for his most famous creation.
Twenty-two astronauts hail Purdue as their alma mater, including Neil Armstrong and Eugene Cernan, respectively the first and last men to set foot on the moon, and Jerry Ross, the man who has been on more space walks than any other astronaut. Purdue alumni have flown more than one-third of all U.S. manned flights into space, which has led to Purdue's epithet of "the Cradle of Astronauts."
Find out if Purdue truly has something for you, straight from the students' mouths.
Visiting campus isn't enough.
Read our Purdue University guide and discover what it feels like to be on campus for 4 years.
Discover if Purdue is Right For You.
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Once a book is written, additional students serve as editors and check for accuracy even more extensively. Our bounce-back team—a group of randomly selected students who have no involvement with the project—are asked to read over the material in order to help ensure that the book accurately expresses every aspect of the university and its students. This same process is applied to the 200-plus schools College Prowler currently covers. Each book is the result of endless student contributions, hundreds of pages of research and writing, and countless hours of hard work. All of this has led to the creation of a student information network that stretches across the nation to every school that we cover. It’s no easy accomplishment, but it’s the reason that our guides are such a great resource.
When reading our books and looking at our grades, keep in mind that every college is different and that the students who make up each school are not uniform—as a result, it is important to assess schools on a case-by-case basis. Because it’s impossible to summarize an entire school with a single number or description, each book provides a dialogue, not a decision, that’s made up of 20 different topics and hundreds of student quotes. In the end, we hope that this guide will serve as a valuable tool in your college selection process. Enjoy!
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During the writing of College Prowler’s guidebooks, we felt it was critical that our content was unbiased and unaffiliated with any college or university. We think it’s important that our readers get honest information and a realistic impression of the student opinions on any campus—that’s why if any aspect of a particular school is terrible, we (unlike a campus brochure) intend to publish it. While we do keep an eye out for the occasional extremist—the cheerleader or the cynic—we take pride in letting the students tell it like it is. We strive to create a book that’s as representative as possible of each particular campus. Our books cover both the good and the bad, and whether the survey responses point to recurring trends or a variation in opinion, these sentiments are directly and proportionally expressed through our guides. College Prowler guidebooks are in the hands of students throughout the entire process of their creation. Because you can’t make student-written guides without the students, we have students at each campus who help write, randomly survey their peers, edit, layout, and perform accuracy checks on every book that we publish. From the very beginning, student writers gather the most up-to-date stats, facts, and inside information on their colleges. They fill each section with student quotes and summarize the findings in editorial reviews. In addition, each school receives a collection of letter grades (A through F) that reflect student opinion and help to represent contentment, prominence, or satisfaction for each of our 20 specific categories. Just as in grade school, the higher the mark the more content, more prominent, or more satisfied the students are with the particular category.
Once a book is written, additional students serve as editors and check for accuracy even more extensively. Our bounce-back team—a group of randomly selected students who have no involvement with the project—are asked to read over the material in order to help ensure that the book accurately expresses every aspect of the university and its students. This same process is applied to the 200-plus schools College Prowler currently covers. Each book is the result of endless student contributions, hundreds of pages of research and writing, and countless hours of hard work. All of this has led to the creation of a student information network that stretches across the nation to every school that we cover. It’s no easy accomplishment, but it’s the reason that our guides are such a great resource.
When reading our books and looking at our grades, keep in mind that every college is different and that the students who make up each school are not uniform—as a result, it is important to assess schools on a case-by-case basis. Because it’s impossible to summarize an entire school with a single number or description, each book provides a dialogue, not a decision, that’s made up of 20 different topics and hundreds of student quotes. In the end, we hope that this guide will serve as a valuable tool in your college selection process. Enjoy!
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- PublisherCollege Prowler
- Publication date2006
- ISBN 10 1427401152
- ISBN 13 9781427401151
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages180
- EditorAdam Burns, Kelly Carey, Kimberly Moore
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