<p>so obviously u of m is a great school and has academic prestige and all. But I have only been on the "campus" (idk if it really was the campus) while visiting the hospital there. My dad and I drove around a little, and I know that the campus is really integrated into the city but I was just wondering if there are things that you like and dislike about the campus and how student friendly it is?</p>
<p>thanks guys go blue</p>
<p>it is so pretty and awesome! It’s huge but really great how it blends into downtown Ann Arbor! I visited quite a few large schools and Michigan had the best campus, in my opinion.</p>
<p>I’ve only been to one college campus and this is it… I could see why some people would want it to be more secluded, though I’m sure there are places on campus you could find that are, but I like that there’s a bar, dispensary, and top-notch headshop right across the street from central campus haha. The first time I took a look at the campus, there was that ****ty looking snow everywhere, but when I went back during the summer, it looked great… I love the old styled buildings and accessibility of everything.</p>
<p>yeah I am from michigan so the snow is nothing new haha</p>
<p>Well me too (5 minutes south of Detroit), but the campus looks sooooooo much better without dirt all over the snow. I’m sure it looks beautiful with fresh snow, but that snow ~3 days after a big snow? Looks like crap.</p>
<p>Southgate… I’m guessing Oak Park is north because it only sounds vaguely familiar to me. I’m not good with geography in the areas north of Detroit haha.</p>
<p>lucky you haha</p>
<p>It’s not that I don’t like it (even though there ain’t **** to do), it just gets depressing cause a lot of people from downriver talk **** about it all of the time about how depressing it is and they’re too stupid to realize that they’re the ones making it so god damned depressing while doing nothing to help the area (most of them are 23 year old unemployed drop-outs… ***?).</p>
<p>And the areas north of Detroit are generally nicer, so by comparison, I’d say lucky you. There’s still some very nice areas in downriver though too (well, imo) so I kinda generalized there.</p>
<p>w-t-f is ***?</p>
<p>***?</p>
<p>To go back to describing campus, I’ve visited a ton of college campuses so I feel I can categorize it pretty effectively. Michigan is a very open, urban feeling campus. If you have ever been to Washington DC, with the low buildings, wide streets, and many open plazas, this is a image to set it equal to. The campus is definitely more urban then rural feeling. In fact, it is one of the most cosmopolitan feeling campuses I’ve been to, only being topped by Boston U, NYU and Northeastern. Central campus is beautiful. The buildings are a blend of old and modern. There are several statues and everything is very big in scale. </p>
<p>State Street, which runs parallel to the campus, is a great majority of the restaurants and shops are. The campus is very student friendly as Ann Arbor is a college town. It was by far my favorite campus and I visited over 20. It just depends on what you like I guess.</p>
<p>In visiting many larger campuses lately, Michigan is as about as nice as you’ll see. When you see campus trucks with “U of Michigan Upholstery Services” (as one small example) you know the upkeep is as good as it gets. The lawn maintenance is remarkable and the building beauty and upkeep is exceptional. The size of the campus alone (3000+ acres) is huge, giving the U of Mich plenty of room to keep building and improving and for a person to wander and see new things all the time. The one downside compared to say Northwestern or Wisconsin is water. Northwestern is much smaller than UM but is right on Lake Michigan and that is very nice. Wisconsin is situated between two lakes and also has that as an upside. But, overall with the all of the above and how the campus is part of the vibrant mid size city of Ann Arbor, it really is a very high quality campus.</p>