What’s the craziest thing you’ve seen at UI?

By Talia Duffy & Maggie Knutte Columnist

The University of Illinois is a place to create memories, some being more memorable than others. Many students have seen and experienced some things that don’t just happen anywhere — some things that make you think: Only at Illinois. We asked students, “What is the craziest thing you have seen or experienced at the University?”

Screaming professor

“I would say the professor just screaming on the (Main) Quad,” said Eliana Eng, sophomore in LAS. “I feel like I’ve never seen anything like it. And it just goes on for like 30 minutes. I feel like every week I hear it.”

The professor Eng refers to is Reuben May, a professor in LAS and head of the Department of Sociology. According news on Reddit about that squirrel passing away. I used to see her or see him every single day there.”

Snowball fight

“In February 2022, it had snowed like 10 inches,” said Colton Johnson, graduate student studying urban and regional planning. “And I guess Barstool put out a post saying, you know, meet on the (Main) Quad for a snowball fight and then a good 100 people showed up and it was the biggest snowball fight I’ve ever been in. It was crazy.”

Murphy’s karaoke

“You get, like, all types of people will go up and sing — it’s a judgment-free zone,” said Matt Grendzinski, graduate student studying structural engineering. “It feels like a very safe space.”

Grendzinski told us his favorite

“I had this one friend who studies in Germany,” Grendzinski said. “He was here on exchange — this, like, short Indian guy, Reshop — and he went up and did Real Slim Shady and absolutely nailed it. And the whole bar — everyone — was standing friends were telling me to come up to Green Street because it was crazy. And apparently the whole street was packed. There were people doing donuts in the middle of Green Street, (in) their cars.”

“Yeah, (the intersection of Sixth and Green streets) was shut down for like 40 minutes — they shut down the inter section,” Galluzzo said. “And the guys who owned Illini Pantry popped their tire doing a burnout and I got covered in car rubber. It just exploded and a lot of us had specks on our arms and some on our face.”

Galluzzo and O’Hara agreed that getting covered in car rubber was worth it.

“Yeah, I think it was last basketball season,” O’Hara said. “We won the Big Tenally at work and all my taliagd2@dailyillini.com

Talia is a sophomore in Media.

Maggie is a sophomore in Media mknutte@dailyillini.com