Reviews of Grainger Engineering Library Information Center (Library)

Tony Xu

You don't have to sign a lease for an apartment anymore

Ethan Chew

Great place for group study and work.

Yang S

i like it

Mitchell Whalen

A lot of resources, nice computer lab, great place to study, and it has a cafe in the building which is super convenient.

Da Wei Qiu

This place is great for getting work done and studying. There are rooms that offer study sessions hosted by CARE and other university-affiliated organizations. If you like to work and chat amongst your friends, the basement, first and fourth floors are for you. For getting serious work done, I recommend the second and third floors as they are dubbed the quiet floors. 10/10 would want to have my soul ripped out again. Now with the general flavor text out of the way, time to give the True Grainger Experience (based on my experience.) At first, you will think that this place is immaculate with the neat decor, the amount of study space, and the amount of books (No one really cares about the latter.) You are actually kind of psyched to hang out and study with your friends. Not for long. As you study more and more in this place, it slowly reaches into you and starts consuming your soul as you come here twice or three times a day to get your work done and binge study your exams. By the mid to end of the semester, after your classes, you don't go home. Your day isn't complete without a homework binge session here in Grainger. When you wake up on the weekend, your brain automatically sends you a distress signal, telling you that if you don't go there to study for your next midterm or to catch up on class material, you're in for a fatal tragedy. You pick up your bags, eat lunch and go there to study with your friends that are as ill-fated for the exam as you are and spend the whole afternoon and evening sitting there, trying to make sense of the incomprehensible lecture material and arguing about which form of one formula that one should use. There is the CBTF exam room in there, in the dark dungeon called the Grainger Basement, where students and RSVP for a time to have their soul ripped into indistinguishable fragments and have their dignity sucked into a black hole. By the time final exams roll around, it's hell on earth. Grainger has now become the place you spend the most of your time awake, surpassing your house/dorm/apartment. It has become your place to eat lunch and dinner. It has become a place to pray. You or your friends meet up practically every day at the crack of dawn, dreading the worst to come. Finding seats has become impossible. Inanimate objects have become human beings, taking up empty seats and tables, shooing away the mortally screwed students from gaining a place to properly attempt to unscrew themselves. The atmosphere is at rock bottom. You begin to smell the pollution coming from the overworked students. Hordes of students, including you, have become soulless husks, robotically programmed by haunted souls living on floor M, to retain and recall information that is only to be jotted down in the form of a black circle, numbers and formulas and words on lined paper and code, most with the help of copious amounts of caffeine and other stimulants. Sleep? Forget about it! This place is now your living quarters! It doesn't matter how long you sleep as long as you do well on your exam! Once Final Exams are over, you look towards the place as you walk away and reflect upon the scars it has inflicted on you before getting a long rest for break and have your soul mended together. If you are not graduating, you can check out any time you like, but you can never leave.

Jared Klinefelter

A beautiful library jam packed full of knowledge.

Cody Wang

I love grainger!!

Corey Weil

BEST LIB IN THE NATION #ECE

Mia Ye

Love studying here. Full of memory.

Ichenn Sun

I can borrow books from a lot of other places, and pick up /return it at Grainger!

TIANWEI CHEN

Magnificent place for learning

Esa Amin

Where thousands of Engineering students converge to binge on cruel and unusual homework assignments until they've produced enough entropy to kill a horse. At Grainger, you'll find no shortage of unavailable computers and people who are much smarter than you. This miserable house of pain is no longer accessible by bus and nearby parking is expensive or completely unavailable, so if you must attend this exposition of soul-crushing agony, I hope you enjoy the bitterly cold or intensely hot walk to inevitable doom.

Emily Floess

I love studying at Grainger!!!!

Varun Vattikonda

Great place to study

Sai Sujan

Open 24/7 except Saturdays. Best place for group studies and last night exam preparations

Anirudh Madhusudan

Probably the best places to get your homework done if you are an engineering student. Gets really crowded and dirty around midterm and finals week. The 4th level has a lot of rooms you can book if you want to work with your team on a project or assignment.

Ryan Sullivan

A really nice library with a ton of computers and other resources. I spent a good chunk of my time here, and know plenty non-engineering students who did as well.

ihsuy 21

My home

Shing H

A great place to study and get work done at! It is popular among the students, so sometimes it can be hard to get a seat or a study room.

Ujang Sapriatna

I spent a lot of time in Grainger Library during my study. The library is 24 hours during the weekdays. There are quite study places (in 4th floor and 2nd floor), as well as places for discussion (4th floor and underground). We can print HW and stuff. I also heard some story about stolen belongings so be careful with your belongings, don't leave them unattended, otherwise the security will put a warning sticker.

Balachander Ramachandran

Nice place to focus, study and get your assignments done!

Connie Zhou

My fav library on campus for sure. The AC could be too much tho, both in summer and winter.

Tim Brown

Did most of my homework here, nice place.

Manuel Colón

For the hype of Grainger, I don't really get it. Sure it's large. But, the benefits that most people attach to the library; quieter, more serious, better study environment, etc. is more a factor of the social norms and expectations that are set there. It's a decent library, but nothing to write home about.

Qingtao Hu

The environment is very clean and there are places for both quiet people and people who love discussions.

Jingzhou Zhang

Amazing! This is an amazing library filled with a bunch of amazing students and books!

Giotto Rao

Ａ wonderful placefor studing！

Hamid

Needs rules and cleaning.

Jin Zou

A beautiful building with barn style!

Jag Ram

Beautiful.lot of memories.

Anna Chen

Nice place to study!

Omar Alfateh

Smiley unclean discussing library. I think nobody comes over to clean it. I guess it is unhealthy to go there.

Tejas Thosani

Quiet place to study on level 2. Lots of computers on level 4.

Aditya Roshan

Great place to get your work done. You register for free 24 hours internet. Read literature, books and have coffee from cafe. Window and non-window seating are available and they are great. Second and third floor are quieter than first floor.

Karan Talati

Best in class.

Aishik Ghosh

Great place to study

Shyam R

Peace

Anthony Bongungu

2nd floor the best

John K

Lots of quiet study areas. Fantastic library.

Xiaosheng Wu

great place to study.

Kurtis Bowen

Great place to get work done

Desiree Phillips

ECE grad student here. Amazing selection of books, great hours.

Joe M

Grainger is an essential part of the Engineering education. Grainger Library is a quiet get-away for students who want to learn and collaborate. There are many tables and individual desks for students to focus, and the 4th floor is a group work environment with reservation study rooms and general access tables. And then there's the Library. This extension of the U of I's library does not disappoint. All course textbooks are available here, along with an abundant collection of periodicals, reference books, and non-course non-fiction technology books. The material here provides valuable research material for all of the College of Engineering. Grainger has many computers available, so you also have access to the UIUC's first class online library. If there is an article, the UIUC library has it or will get it for you. Just search, or submit a request and they will hunt it down and email you a PDF of it.

Tin-Yin Lai

Best place to study and discuss.

Neil Varghese

It's a library. It's quiet.

Xia Mingming

(Translated by Google) Also rowing! (Original) 亦可赛艇！

Derek Leung

It's Grainger, the library for future engineers

Alex Woodworth

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