<p>I got accepted into the College of Engineering at UMich and I was wondering if the fact that its located on North Campus (i heard like 20 min drive) would completely isolate me from the main campus and the college experience in general?</p>
<p>Nonsense. There are buses in between (less than 20 minutes for sure) and a lot of your freshman classes will be on central. You’ll have friends in engineering, and probably friends that arent. This shouldnt keep you from considering michigan engineering.</p>
<p>It usually takes 10-11 minutes on the Bursley-Baites bus to get from CC Little to Pierpont. And busses leave every 10 minutes most of the day, 15 the rest (they stop running from 2 am - 6:45 or something like that)</p>
<p>It’s really not isolated. Plus North Campus is far prettier than Central.</p>
<p>^
As a Freshman in COE would you live in central or north …
assuming you have a choice?</p>
<p>I think that i would be randomly assigned to housing in north or central the same as all other freshman at the university</p>
<p>20 minutes? LOL! Maybe if you are running or on a bicycle. By car, it is 4-5 minutes and by bus, it is 9-10 minutes. We are talking about 3 miles between the North Campus and Central Campus. The buses are free, clean and leave every 10-15 minutes. </p>
<p>This said, North Campus is pretty nice. It is very modern, clean and has its own union and clock tower!</p>
<p>As a freshman, most of your classes will be on central so try to get a dorm at central and enjoy the social life there. Lots of people opt to stay on central through college so its definitely positive and not a huge hassle.</p>
<p>"By car, it is 4-5 minutes and by bus, it is 9-10 minutes. "</p>
<p>4-5 minutes by car means getting a speeding ticket down fuller everytime that freaking cop is there doing his laser gun crap. Trust me my insurance rate went up by $1300 this year. It’s more like 7 minutes with the lights and traffic. bus is more like 10-13 minutes.</p>
<p>Bearcats, assuming you actually hit a few red light, yes, 7 minutes is about right, but the lights are pretty well synchronized (or they used tobe when I lived in Ann Arbor back in 2002-2003 and that trip seldom took more than 5 minutes travelling at the speed limit. The buses make the trip in under 12 minutes. Either way, it is a short and easy distance to travel.</p>
<p>“As a Freshman in COE would you live in central or north …
assuming you have a choice?”</p>
<p>I would just want to stay in the nicest dorm (and I don’t know which one that is). Central and North are pretty well connected.</p>
<p>I’d try to get into the brand new North Quad on central campus. But I’m sure everyone wants to go there!</p>
<p>Interesting…these distances seem to be getting longer and longer with every thread.</p>
<p>^ the global warming hoaxers would tell you that since the earth is warming so much, it is expanding due to heat and therefore stretched the roads and made them longer</p>
<p>Actually UCB, the distances aren’t getting longer. It’s the threads!</p>
<p>I personally go from North Campus to Central (a lot) and it really depends on where you’re starting and ending. From the Orange Parking Lot past EPB to Angel Hall it’ll take around 10 minutes. Going From the Blue parking near duderstadt to hill area is around 5. So I’ll say that it’ll take 5-10 minutes by car.</p>
<p>By bus, it’ll take around 7-15 minutes depending on which bus you take and where your getting off and on. [From Pierpont to CCRB using Diag-Diag will take around 7, Computer South from FXB to CCRB around 15.]</p>