The best thing about UND, for me, is that it's close to home and they gave me oodles of money to go there. I think that Grand Forks is a great place to live if you can stand the stench of a potato chip factory that makes the town smell like rotten, rancid grease about half the time and the -40 F temperatures in the winter, and I'm not talking wind chill. I like that there's a medical school right there and I think that going to UND gives me a little advantage when I apply there. There are a lot of things to do on and around campus for those who want alternatives to partying every weekend. I do have a gripe, though: the school seems to be out to make money, not to educate students. They are always increasing the price of tuition, fees, and housing. In fact, since our current student body president has been going to UND, the tuition alone has risen, I forget exactly what he said, but it was something like 65{4a082faed443b016e84c6ea63012b481c58f64867aa2dc62fff66e22ad7dff6c} in the last four years. They told me personally when I wanted to move out of my dorm and into my sorority at the end of the fall semester last year that I couldn't. The reason THEY gave me was that if I did that, they wouldn't be making money on my room or on my meal plan (not that I pay for it anyway; they do, but whatever). The administration also recently signed a contract with a bank somewhere in New England to send every UND student what they're calling the "UND Pride Card," which is a way to reimburse us our overpaid tuition. Umm, hello, we had direct deposit before! We didn't need to send bunches of money to some bank halfway across the country to fix a system that had no problem. The Pride Card thing is new for the 2008-09 academic year and it has some students in an uproar. If I remember right, we're having a Pride Card burning event this fall sometime. The things that makes me really angry about the pride card are these: One, the contract is with a non-state bank. The Bank of North Dakota has been very helpful to those students who need financial aid and does the University do their voluntary business with them? Do they keep our money in our state? Nope. However, more important here is number two, the administration didn't even ask the students before signing this contract. I emailed the student body VP about the Pride Card and he said that Student Government wasn't even asked about this issue before administrators gave it the nod. I cannot imagine that this was an isolated incident. The school is out to make money, that's that, and who gives a darn about what the students want? I digress, and lengthily. Overall, it's a great school. I'm glad to be going here, but no place is perfect, and UND is a good example.