Other Stuff

Some sights with info you might find useful

Helpful UIC Sites:

Check out the Undergraduate Catalog.
You'll need to know where to find the Bookstores.
And, of course, the UIC Library is a place you'll want to spend a lot of time.
Here are a bunch of Student Services (info on everything from Counseling to Financial Aid to various Minority Support Services).
You'll want to stay informed by reading the UICNEWS.
And, of course, you should get Involved in Student Government.
Or at least find out about some of the dozens of Student Organizations on campus.
Get all the computer info you need by visiting the UIC-ADN Home Page.
And of course, all of this stuff, and lots more, can be found on the UIC Home Page.

Some Other Cool Sites to Check Out:

The Oxford English Dictionary has full etymological and historical information about every word in the English language.
This Readers and Writers site has lots of good links related to, you guessed it, reading and writing.
What can I say about the Library of Congress?
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations is terrific if you're looking for a good quote, or trying to find out where that saying comes from.
The Chicago Reader is a free weekly with lots of good info on stuff going on in the city, including the city's best movie, music, theater, and gallery listings.
The The New York Times, and the Washington Post are the newspapers I read when I want a well-written corporate/establishment take on what's going on in the world.
For less comprehensive, more mundane, less well-written coverage, you could check out The Chicago Sun-Times and The Chicago Tribune.
If you want to move beyond corporate/establishment media, you should check out FAIR -- Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting, an invaluable corrective and a real eye-opener. Fair describes itself as a "national media watch group offering well-documented criticism in an effort to correct media bias and imbalance."
WBEZ (91.5 FM) and WTTW (Channel 11) are, respectively, Chicago's local National Public Radio (NPR) and Public Television (PBS) affiliates. (NPR is by far the best electronic media source available in Chicago.