<p>Is Michigan TOO BIG to meet people and have fun? I heard that the campus is going down in quaulity...true?</p>
<p>The <em>university</em> is huge, but the <em>community</em> is not. The flip side of having a lot of people with a lot of different interests is that its actually very possible to find a few people with very similar interests to your own, especially if you do things like the Michigan Research Community or UROP or whatever.</p>
<p>Plus the Ann Arbor social scene in general is pretty sweet.</p>
<p>And the campus is only getting better in quality in terms of what it has to offer; North Campus is <em>really</em> expanding in terms of restaraunts and shops etc- and even though most of the stuff is on Central, its only a short bus ride (or walk) away.</p>
<p>how could a place be too big to meet people and have fun? that sounds like a contradiction</p>
<p>i dont get why people keep saying that umich is SUCH a big school, i dont see it being that much different from many big public schools... maybe people just see it as so large because it shares applicants with a lot of smaller private schools</p>
<p>Wolverinefromchicago, there is no such thing as "too big" if the university has the resources to counter the size. The whole size issue is one that smaller universities have used to lure protective parents...and I am sad to say it has worked beautifully.</p>
<p>By the way, Michigan = Wolverine. Beast looks more like a Badger. I'd say Wisconsin = beast! What do you know? It would seem Marvel was a Big 10 fan! hehe</p>
<p>"The whole size issue is one that smaller universities have used to lure protective parents...and I am sad to say it has worked beautifully."</p>
<p>So true it isn't even funny.</p>
<p>Definitely not true. The campus is adding all sorts of insane new (expensive) buildings; it is in a constant state of upkeep. Unless you are talking about going downhill from the 1960's, but that's a totally different story involving activism, politics, etc. No, the campus is very clean, very safe, and not "going downhill."</p>
<p>As for big schools being too big to meet people, that's basically an urban legend. </p>
<p>You meet people the same way you do in a small school; at work, in class, in the dorms, parties, sports, clubs, etc. It's just that at a big school, there are more people like yourself to be friends with.</p>
<p>I was talking about what Alexandre said concerning parents who were more attracted to smaller schools.</p>