Where did you all go to college, if you went - and would you go there again? What did you like/hate about it?
I went to the University of Notre Dame and was completely brainwashed into believing it was Catholic Disneyland. I’d go again in a heartbeat. Love it. Hated that it wasn’t more liberal, though.
How about you?
Tibs
I didn’t attend university, although I wanted to. I spent three semesters at junior college, specifically Howard Community College. I dropped out after developing a serious drug problem. So now I associate the college I went to with the problems I was having at the time. Because of that, when I return to college to complete my degree, it will be somewhere else.
Colby College in the fine town of Waterville, Maine.
I never saw it before I showed up for freshman year. No interviews or tours of the campus. I actually just picked it out of the college book. One of the best non-thought decisions of my life.
I would do it again, though I am incredibly glad that I am not in college now. But it was the experience I needed at that point in my life. 
Hated the ultra-PC ness of the campus. It was a liberal arts school, but at times it seemed that you couldn’t debate anything remotely controversial without someone claiming to be offended. Plus, by senior year, the admin was doing the in loco parentis(sp?) thing pretty strongly.
The American University, in lovely upper Northwestern Washington, DC.
Yeah, I probably would go there again. It’s on my list of schools to apply to when I finally go back for my MFA.
I went to the University of California, Santa Cruz. I don’t regret my choice of schools, but I think if I were a senior in high school again, I might have different priorities that would have led me to another school. My main consideration was location: I wanted to go to a public school in Northern California (public in state so I could afford it, and I would never live in Southern California), but not one extremely close to my parents. This left me with only a few schools, most of which were not particularly appealing. For various reasons (gorgeous campus, no Greek scene or football team, 100 miles away from home) UCSC rose to the top of my list. It was more a process of elimination than anything else.
I can’t say I wouldn’t go to Santa Cruz again given a second chance (I did like it), but I kind of do wish I had at least considered some schools outside of my strict parameters.
McGill University (Montreal, Quebec). And yes.
Hendrix College, in Conway, Arkansas. Would I go there again? In a heartbeat. Exactly what a small, private liberal arts college ought to be. Emphasis for the faculty is definitely on teaching, but because there are no graduate students, undergraduates in nearly every field have the opportunity, if they’re interested, to participate in research projects in ways only grad students would at a large university. No fraternities or sororities, so the inevitable cliques tend to be organized around common interests, and small enough (~1100 students) so that everyone on campus has to deal with nearly everyone else on campus at some time or another. No football team, NCAA Division III sports teams (no athletic scholarships). Has a fairly prestigious academic reputation in Arkansas and surrounding areas, increasingly so outside the region. Usually mentioned in lists of the “best bargains in higher education”, since its location in Arkansas and its substantial endowment keep the costs low (for a private institution).
The only real drawbacks, IMO, are the relative cultural and geographical isolation and the limited resources of the library (better now than when I was there, but still a limitation). There’s little or no cultural activity in Conway outside of college-related stuff, and even Little Rock, no cultural mecca itself, is 40 miles away. Majoring in a foreign language is a dicey proposition, since in most languages there’s only one professor, and in my day they weren’t quite the caliber of the rest of the faculty.
Northern Illinois University in scenic DeKalb (think “flying corncobs”). It was cheap and close, but not TOO close, to home.
Would I go back? Actually, their reputation has IMPROVED since I left, although evidence of a relationship between the two is slim. And, during one of those period when I realized that I should have followed in the family business, I almost went back there for law school.
I went to Bridgewater State College in Bridgewater, MA. As much as I bitched and whined about it, I’d go again. The student employment jobs I had while there gave me a lot of really good experience, and I was able to get my degree in archaeology at the same time.
University of Hawaii at Manoa.
To be honest, UH kinda sucks. It’s got a couple of good departments, though, and fortunately for me, I was a major in one of them. But had I stuck with journalism or studied something else, I would be wishing I’d gone elsewhere.
When (If!) I get more schooling, it probably won’t be at UHM. The competition into the psych department is high, and all of my favourite professors have retired or soon will retire. Which is really too bad, because many of them were great teachers and generally just good people.
I have three degrees from Ohio State. In all three cases, I “ended up” at OSU by default, because of circumstances that had little do with the quality of the education or the atmosphere.
I’d definitely go somewhere else given the chance to do it over. The quality of the education was so-so; the faculty was generally either very bad or very good, so it was kind of a crapshoot. Ohio State does not take learning seriously, as an institution. It’s far too focused on sports. And like most colleges, there are thousands of students who really have no interest in being there; they should go to technical school or join the Army instead of taking up space in class.
The worst part of OSU is the office staff. The “dead-wood” civil servant is strongly represented there. They’re incompetent and rude, as a rule, and they don’t care that their incompetence can be detrimental to your education and finances.
On the bright side, I met Mrs. CG and many other good friends there. And the Student Health Center has at least one excellent doctor.
Undergrad: University of Washington. Yes, I’d go again.
Grad school: University of Hawaii - Manoa. Met my wife there, so yes I would go again if necessary but not for the academic quality.
AudreyK: Do you know Dr. Leon James in the psych dept.?
Yes. I had two of his classes one semester. I saw the guy for five straight hours every Tuesday then. I think you once posted that you were in library sciences, right? Do you know his wife, Dr. Diane Nahl?
New York University
It is an excellent school for highly focused, highly motivated people who don’t want to have their hands held too tightly. It was not such a good idea for me to go there. It was my first choice school because:
–it is in NYC
–dorms with private bathrooms and kitchens
–it is in Greenwich Village
–no phys. ed. requirement
–did I mention it’s in NYC?
–not much of a campus social scene, but who needs a campus social scene when you can walk down the street and go to C.B.G.B.'s or the Limelight?
–excellent art history department
It also had a reputation of being the anti-school spirit school, which I thought made it a great match for me. One of the college guides warned parents that “NYU has too many punk rockers.” This, of course, cemented my desire to go there.
Looking back on it, I really made a stupid choice based on all the wrong things. Would I change it? It’s hard to tell, because it was such a large part of creating of the person I am now. And I met some very good friends, and developed close relationships with some very formidable professors.
(I think NYU today is very different from the way it was when I was a student. It was a good school then, and I think it’s an even better school now, but it just wasn’t the right fit for me.)
I went to the University of Tennessee for undergrad. I went there pretty much because I lived in Knoxville for most of my life. Although, the education was fine and I’d recommend it to anyone.
Went to Clemson University for grad school. Great school. REAL small town. I had a good time here, but I would have preferred to be in a bigger city. Overall, I’d recommend it.
I got my BA from Baldwin-Wallace College in Berea, OH (with some work done at Cleveland State University). I’d honestly have to say I wouldn’t go back. It’s not a bad school, per se; in fact, FWIW, it’s usually ranked near the top of Div. III colleges in the annual U.S. News & World Distort rankings. I, personally, simply found the atmosphere a little bit too reminiscent of a large high school, and too athletics-intensive to boot. They have some excellent faculty and departments, particularly in theater, history and business; but they have some lousy ones, too.
I went to:
Univ. of Maryland
Univ. of Maryland
Univ. of Maryland
I still go there for occasional classes, guest lectures, etc. It was a nice school.
I graduated from Ohio University. The OTHER Ohio University . . . Not the Buckeyes, which are just useless nuts! 
It is touted as one of the top ten Journalism schools in the country. And yes, I would do it all over again in a millisecond.
Loyola University, New Orleans. No, I wouldn’t study there again, but I would study at Tulane University, which is right next door.
Boston University. I’d club a baby seal for the chance to go back, even if only for a day to wander around the campus again. In the past year and a half since graduation, I’ve had three separate vacation plans to go back, but something different forced me to cancel each time.
I’m currently planning on trying to get there in April, but I’m not that confident.