<p>i've seen plenty of hot girls here. they aren't all over the place, but they're here.</p>
<p>No hating on UAF, or Dion Knelsen will lay the smack down on you after skating out of a giant inflatable polar bear. Damn the cosmopolitan atmosphere of Los Anchorage and the lower 48, long live Squarebanks!</p>
<p>/knows way too much about this after round 1 of Governor's Cup action</p>
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I've seen plenty of hot girls here.
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Thank you, forgiven...a voice of reason. Someone who hasn't bought into that tired stereotype. LOL...guys generally have an inflated image of themselves. Don't remember too many Brad Pitt, David Beckham, Orlando Bloom, Keanu Reeves, Johnny Depp types filling up the classrooms on campus. Haha...but you-guys must be the exception, right?
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Where are all these hot girls you speak of?
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Well, if Greek life is of interest, as a starting point, you'll find PLENTY in some of the sorority houses. Being intelligent and hot are not mutually exclusive qualities.</p>
<p>hahhaha so true. i hear of so many guys complain that there aren't hot girls around.. when us guys aren't so hot ourselves.</p>
<p>In general, the people on this campus aren't attractive. This is partially, but not entirely, explained by observation that I, for one, am far less motivated to put on nice clothes (or even clothes I didn't sleep in) and do basic hygiene on a daily basis here, versus the popped collars and sundresses my high school friends are dressed in at their respective colleges. But besides that point, I think, for the most part, girls get the attention they want. If they want catcalls, they dress a certain way, and if they could care less, they don't, which is a big leap to what I'm used to, but whatever. About intelligence and attractiveness being mutually exclusive? I guess it's more of a probability thing. And you really start caring less when you hang out with nerds all the time.</p>
<p>In addition to that, statistically, it's been found that women who are unattractive to men tend to do better in academia. Women who feel as if they need approval from men do worse. So there is some correlation between the two aspects. But, like I said, there are always weird cases, so it's all a probability game.</p>
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About intelligence and attractiveness being mutually exclusive? I guess it's more of a probability thing.
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<p>Picture a Venn diagram...</p>
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I, for one, am far less motivated to put on nice clothes (or even clothes I didn't sleep in) and do basic hygiene on a daily basis here
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Now, this is a problem. What's up with this? There certainly is a happy medium between looking like death warmed over and those popped collars and sundresses. And, not all nerds are freaks of nature. Some are kind of cute in their own way, especially if they bother to take a shower, brush their teeth, comb their hair, and get out of their pajamas...LOL!</p>
<p>Oh wow. You don't know how relevant that post is to my everyday life here. I want to say more. I will, later.</p>
<p>1) No academic weakness. Top 15 departments in every major field of study. Arguably, the most academically diversified and versitile university in the US.</p>
<p>2) Campus has a unique and perfect mix of intense academics, intellectual vibe and blow-your-mind school spirit.</p>
<p>3) Ann Arbor is quite possibly the quaintest, funkiest, most cosmopolitan college town around.</p>
<p>4) One of the largest, wealthiest, most influencial and most loyal alumni base on Earth. Our alums have sat in the Oval Office, walked on the moon, won nobel prizes, earned Rhodes and Marshall scholarships, led fortune 500 companies, impacted the entertainment industry, competed in sports at the highest level and are, on average, the 4th wealthiest alums in the US.</p>
<p>5) The University of Michigan hospital, Rackham graduate administration building, Clements Library, Law Quad, Burton Tower, North Campus, the new Ross Building (when it is completed) and the Big House are amazing!</p>
<p>6) Michigan football and hockey rock!</p>
<p>7) Hail to the Victors is the most rousing and spirited fight song ever.</p>
<p>8) The Winged helmets are the coolest and most easily recognized in college sports.</p>
<p>9) Zingerman sandwitches are the awesome.</p>
<p>10) You will never run out of cafes!</p>
<p>11) One of the best bargains in higher education for a Michigan resident. Comparable to some of the top private schools in the country, yet at in-state tuition rates.</p>
<p>12) NEW 100 million dollar business school facility coming soon.</p>
<p>13) So many places to study and people to study with. At any given night, i can find a friend to study with at any time of day/night.</p>
<p>14) FREE shuttle buses to various parts of ann arbor.</p>
<p>15) There's something here for everyone.</p>
<p>16) Amazing med school/law school placement.</p>
<p>17) Has a lot of great, established churches on campus.</p>
<p>18) Most food places are open LATE, until 3am-4am daily, such as pancherro's, jimmy johns, big 10 burrito. you will never go hungry here.</p>
<p>19) Ann Arbor has the first Borders book store in the country, and it's basically right on campus. If they didn't have it, I'd be quite upset.</p>
<p>20) After a football game against central michigan university this year, as a lot of students left the game early since it was a blowout, a group of central michigan students were yelling and attempting to make fun of a bunch of us leaving by saying "are you guys gonna go study now?! haha". That actually made me smile when I heard it. First, we destroyed them in football, and then we get the reputation of being such a great school academically :]</p>
<p>21) Accessibility of graduate program to undergraduates. Almost all Honors math majors start taking graduate classes their Junior year, if not earlier. I think one of my friends is taking graduate level E&M. Having a graduate program to extend to means there's no limit to what you can do as an undergrad.</p>
<p>22) Ralph Williams. Simply amazing for being but a simple Canadian.</p>
<p>23) Royal Shakespeare Company in residency (as a result of the man above). This year is the third time they've done it, every time doing more shows. Everybody has had amazing things to say about their productions.</p>
<p>24) Technology. We have computer centers all over campus, including in most residential halls, kerberos and AFS, we're one of few universities hooked up to Internet2, Wolverine Access, Ctools, etc.</p>
<p>25) Interesting topics classes/seminars. Right now I'm taking History of College Athletics, and a seminar tied in with the RSC's productions.</p>
<p>26) South Quad not only has it's own website, but we also have our own mascot (Squaddy the Squirrel). Squaddy was out on the front Quad greeting people at move-in, and was present at almost every event in the South Quad Olympics.</p>
<p>27) The Annual West Quad/South Quad Snowball Fight.</p>
<p>28) Home to the most illustrious team in college football.</p>
<p>29) Possibly the ideal college experience.</p>
<p>30) Phenomenal networking possibilities.</p>
<p>31) Unique new "colosseum" style stadium. Too bad our mascots aren't the Praetorians.</p>
<p>32) You get turned down by UC Berkeley or they give you lousy financial aid.</p>
<p>33) We ave a computer lab that's called the 'fish bowl'.</p>
<p>34) There are so many different types of restaurants on campus. chinese, japenese, korean, indian, etc etc.</p>
<p>35) We have 3 main bookstores all around campus.</p>
<p>36) UM students get to watch the biggest and BEST musical performers here for CHEAP prices. performers such as Joshua Bell and Sarah Chang & the Philharmonic.</p>
<p>37) Buffalo Wild Wings. I'm from NJ and I've never seen one in my life until i got here. their wings are amazing.</p>
<p>38) dining halls in mostly ALL residence halls. my old college did not have this.</p>
<p>39) they have tons of healthy options in dining halls as well as nutritional facts.</p>
<p>40) You appreciate variety in your weather.</p>
<p>41) You own like ten North Face jackets</p>
<p>42) Your just dying to try out that new fur coat you bought for the winter.</p>
<p>43) You don't ever want to see a hot girl again.</p>
<p>44) You like depressing, cold, long, harsh, unforgiving winters.</p>
<p>45) You want to see snow on October 12.</p>
<p>46) A dorm as pretentious as Martha Cook.</p>
<p>47) Lots of great musical/theatrical performances right now campus.</p>
<p>48) Probably more diversity in political groups than anywhere else. You can always find a group to fit your ideology. And the College Republicans started here.</p>
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it's been found that women who are unattractive to men tend to do better in academia. Women who feel as if they need approval from men do worse.
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So, this is all about men and not something as simple as having personal standards or basic pride? The prof from my Women's Studies class would have had a field day with this one...LOL.</p>
<p>I never had any trouble dating attractive women at the University. Ah, the memories! LOL!!! Seriously though, If one has trouble finding a "hot" date in a university that has close to 40,000 students (undergrads and graduate students inter-date quite often), then it can only be blamed on lack of initiative.</p>
<p>On a side note, one of the most stunning women I ever saw (and dated) was a 3.8 Mechanical Engineer. She ended up working for one of the major aerospace companies in Arizona.</p>
<p>Well, I simply stated a statistical fact. Personally, I think everything's always the individuals fault and they should live with the consequences of their insecurities.</p>
<p>Hehe...Alexandre...I bet you paid for dinner, though, right? That's another type of initiative...</p>
<p>Date or not, I always pay when I have dinner with a woman.</p>
<p>That's how it should be.</p>
<p>So, you haven't found that to be the case with the guys on campus, Christine? S. is also a college freshman and has had the same personal philosophy about paying a woman's way, with his own hard-earned money I might add. He has a word for guys that don't...cheap. And, he even grew up having a feminist mom. ;)</p>
<p>Wow. That's impressive. I need to find new boys...</p>
<p>I always pay for my dates, too. Two things about it though:</p>
<p>1.) The girl should put up a token effort to pay, no matter how feeble, at least for the first date. It's just polite.</p>
<p>2.) When you think about it, it's a really sexist policy. Imagine taking a black guy out to eat and then telling him that you insist on paying on the assumption that he can't afford it. I hope you're not voting no on 2 Christine!</p>
<p>guys should always pay for dates before you consider yourselves a couple.
once you're officially a couple, if the lady doesn't even offer to pay once, it's time to drop her. i've learned from experience and you'll just end up getting broke and she's too young and immature.</p>
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<p>The girls here are plenty cute. It just takes a special appreciation for women of Asia and the Indian sub-continent. Fortunately, lo tengo.</p>
<p>what are you talking about..
there aren't too many cute asian girls.</p>
<p>i was referring to the hot white girls.</p>