r/Purdue • u/sllabypaos • Aug 15 '26
Question❓ What is your Purdue hot take?
Mine is Pete's Za is not that bad.
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u/saxman162 Aug 15 '26
The sushi places around campus are good.
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u/Schrodingers_Nachos AAE 2018 Aug 15 '26
RIP Ichiban. If you know you know.
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u/LOLSteelBullet Aug 16 '26
I lived at ichiban 2006-2009 before I turned 21. They did not card at all
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u/Schrodingers_Nachos AAE 2018 Aug 16 '26
I remember taking my college GF (who was kinda bougie from Carmel) to our first date there on a half priced Wednesday. I felt like a baller picking up the tab without looking at the bill, but it was legitimately only a $17 tab.
I don't care how many health codes they violated, Ichiban forever.
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u/WokeWook69420 Aug 16 '26
The same people that ran Rice Cafe, too.
Like a 30% chance at food poisoning, but you could get a 3 course meal delivered for $20, and that was with a $5 tip included for the driver.
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u/Bart4kids Aug 15 '26
Maru 🙏
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u/Chinosou ME 2027 Aug 16 '26
i liked maru until they quite literally forced me into a 15% tip after i tried to pay without one. Im not sure if thats even legal for them to do
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u/Angry_Pineapple1 Aug 16 '26
May Crazy Tony rest in peace. Still can’t believe he died….even though it has been a while.
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u/fastcarscheapwomen ME 2014 Aug 15 '26
Advertising “frozen tuition” when the “fees” have increased as much as tuition typically would is a joke
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u/Extreme-Attempt-3964 Aug 15 '26
Still a crazy bargain even for OOS compared to other top tech schools.
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Aug 16 '26
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u/rh71el2 Aug 16 '26
Per semester. And CS pays it too.
But still better than the $90k/yr at UMich. or $67k at UIUC.
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u/Cool_Giraffe6495 Aug 17 '26
Not anymore. Incoming 2026 OOS students will be paying more next year+
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Aug 17 '26
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u/Cool_Giraffe6495 Aug 17 '26
This is what I read a while ago:
Purdue to hold public hearing for tuition and fees proposal - NewsThey may have extended it another year for "non-resident"..... Perhaps someone can correct me with updated information.
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u/invinciblewalnut Biomedicine ‘21 Aug 16 '26
Hot box pizza fucking sucks
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u/PatFromMordor Aug 16 '26
Everyone knows you go to mad mushroom if you want something real
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u/invinciblewalnut Biomedicine ‘21 Aug 16 '26
I have a profound memory of my drunk ass chowing down on some cheesy bread there while explaining my views on the universe to a completely sober friend lol
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u/Scary_Ad_9528 Aug 17 '26
I have a very similar memory except I was high. Guess the cheesy bread is popular among people on substances 😃
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u/WokeWook69420 Aug 16 '26
Shit company, too. They pay worse-than-poverty wages and managers have played favorites with zero repercussions by the owner for literal decades.
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u/urmomsammy #RealPurduePete Aug 16 '26
since they have a budget for a dining hall remodel every summer and did it badly (the new hillenbrand interiors suck, they just remodelled ford and it looks like a cafeteria), they should instead put that money into updating the old dorms like acs in tark, owen, wiley, and making hilltop nicer so we dont get mold poisioning.
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u/GODST26 Aug 15 '26
Purdue dining courts aren’t bad
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u/Critical-Bass7021 Aug 16 '26
Thank you! My god, I went to PU from ‘92-‘96.
Your dining halls (courts) are a paradise of choices!
We thought we were in heaven when we were able to start using our unused meals for Papa John’s, and we didn’t even care that we had to walk to Hillenbrand to take advantage! 😎
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u/wolfmann99 CS 2004 Aug 16 '26
Its very different now. Each hall had their own dining, now its one big food court essentially south of wiley or h-3 as my dad would call wiley.
Miss my philly cheesesteak mondays though.
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u/Critical-Bass7021 Aug 16 '26
Oh, I know! I’m not even ragging on “kids today!”, it’s just so funny to think how different it is now.
Imagine what it’s going to be like thirty years from now.
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u/LegoWill05 BSPS 2027 Aug 15 '26
The ai working competency is stupid
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u/Cool_Giraffe6495 Aug 17 '26
Please elaborate
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u/LegoWill05 BSPS 2027 Aug 17 '26
AI’m of the belief ai is not needed in 99% of cases and promoting it with this will only make the current issues with it worse.
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u/81659354597538264962 PhD Student, MechE Aug 16 '26
WALC is one of the most poorly designed academic buildings I’ve ever stepped foot in (other contenders are also from Purdue campus).
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u/Cheeseburg109 ECE Aug 16 '26
Literally, like why did they make one of the only late night study spot genuinely have the DIMMEST LIGHTING EVER
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u/CypressEatsAzz Aug 16 '26
So you fail your exams and spend more money with the university 👀
Psyop bigger than all of us
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u/asodafnaewn CS 2020 Aug 16 '26
Do the staircase handrails still shock you in the winter?
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u/81659354597538264962 PhD Student, MechE Aug 16 '26
Unsure, I stopped going there since I stopped having classes in that building.
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u/BerryTea840 Aug 16 '26
For a campus as old as it is, Purdue needs to embrace more of the Victorian architecture style when building up the campus. It’s jarring and hideous to see gorgeous buildings like Windsor next to some modern architecture building like Bechtel.
Pick a lane.
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u/TheMazter13 PHYS 2026 Aug 16 '26
Armstrong is awful. The acoustics make every little sound magnified, and there is so much space wasted on what could be seating and workspaces. The seating that does exist is uncomfortable and wasteful (seat spaces made for 3-4 people are always taken up by just 1). It’s one of the least academically focused places on campus; it’s just Purdue’s networking/publicity building
Hicks is where real work gets done.
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u/ivyy23 Aug 16 '26
hilly brunch sucks. the only thing that's worth the hype is the sweet ambrosia aka the vanilla iced coffee 😋
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u/niksjman Civil ‘22, Railroad Club Aug 16 '26
RIP the OG Hilly wings. The guy that tossed and sauced them was a master
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u/WolfGuit2065 IE 2027 Aug 15 '26
Earhart is not a bad dining court (they have variety and usually there's at least one good dish available)
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u/cfalcon279 Aug 16 '26
When I was at Purdue (I graduated 10 years ago), Earhart was the second-best dining court at Purdue (only behind Wiley).
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u/rh71el2 Aug 16 '26
What's the ranking these days for all of them?
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u/cfalcon279 Aug 16 '26
In my day, it was Wiley > Earhart > Ford > Hillenbrand > Windsor.
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u/Chinosou ME 2027 Aug 16 '26
still mostly accurate imo. Id put earhart after hillenbrand but thats probably it
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u/ArcherAggravating161 Aug 16 '26
Purdue has decent nightlife
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u/Possible-Business-53 Aug 18 '26
Please expand on that. It sounds like the city council and school leadership are very conservative resulting in bars being very limited. From what I saw, there was very little to offer in West LA, considering how big the school is. Is the nightlife all Greek based?
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u/SnackStation Aug 16 '26
Bell tower curse is the dumbest out of all Purdue “traditions”
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u/kikiop123 Boilermaker '25 Aug 16 '26
To be fair, this is something on literally every college campus with a bell tower.
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u/jenkinsmichpa CSEC/NET 2022 Aug 16 '26
With Cordova, my b*tch Mitch x 2, and Chang, Purdue is on a generational streak of awful administrations.
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u/EmphasisActive7513 Aug 16 '26
Everyone talks about CAPS or the university not doing enough whenever there's a student suicide. Purdue has one of the lowest suicide rates out of universities nationwide, and in my experience CAPS has been pretty helpful, especially the classes they do on helping coping mechanisms. It's a difficult rigor, especially for STEM, and ultimately there will always be suicides.
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u/technicolordreampony Aug 16 '26
I was suicidal when I went to Purdue (2014-2018; freshman year was great but after that it went downhill) and CAPS literally turned me away, told me I'd be fine. I was only "fine" because I have wonderful parents who came to campus to make sure I was safe. If I didn't have them... yeah.
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u/devboui Aug 21 '26
Yeah 100%, ive had and heard of somewhat similar experiences. caps fucking sucks
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Aug 15 '26
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u/boilermike13 Aug 16 '26
Why am I not surprised that you have no idea what a hot take is. Damn, Hoosiers a stu stu stupid.
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u/Emotional-Volume-819 Aug 17 '26
School isn’t that prestigious. Purdue admits a lot of under qualified prospective engineers and its business program is super mid
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Aug 16 '26
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u/Illustrious-Pipe1039 Boilermaker Aug 17 '26
Goes to STEM school for business. Bitches… that tracks.
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u/etsuandpurdue3 Aug 16 '26
Not a hot take but Purdue needs to raise and spend more NIL in athletics.
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u/worldchanger7 Aug 17 '26
Cactus is overrated
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u/Small_Throat_7961 Sep 01 '26
Thats just a general take from anyone who has lived here their entire life. We stick to homey bars like Linwood!
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u/Commercial-Arm-9259 Sep 10 '26
horrible place to be, no fun, no bars, barely any house parties, no drag parties, barely any family owned restaurants, no where to go
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u/ploomyoctopus PhD 22, now admin Aug 15 '26
Frozen tuition has gone from “sweet benefit” to actively harming students, faculty, and staff.