<p>Am I the only one that thinks North Campus is cool?
I visited the other day, and went through North Campus, and was thoroughly impressed by the architecture and layout of the campus. It felt like a nice release from the busy central campus. So am I alone on this, or are there other North Campus supporters out there?</p>
<p>Have fun riding the bus :p</p>
<p>North campus is better than Central in terms of layout and architecture, and also the atmosphere, its much more academically oriented. but it gets sort of lonely though, and getting to food is hard if you don't have a car.</p>
<p>I think North Campus is awesome. I applied to Bursley for housing.</p>
<p>I applied to Baits housing on North Campus. I had no idea it was more academically oriented or that getting food is sometimes difficult. I won't have a car.</p>
<p>I missed the date for the housing lottery, so I figured I had little chance of getting on Central Campus. Plus, I like the layout of some of the rooms in Baits.. the double seemed to have more room. </p>
<p>I also heard that a lot of freshman end up on North Campus anyway and that the bus ride was actually better than walking through the snow on Central Campus.</p>
<p>I've never once been to North Campus and i'm almost done with my first year at michigan...</p>
<p>Finding food on North Campus will be easier next year. Bursley is going to have an amazing new cafe/snack bar -- it will have coffee drinks, a grill, pizza, beverages. It's wireless and will TVs and sofas and a little performance area. They're building it now. Also, there will be a new convenience store in Northwood III.</p>
<p>congrats UMrunner08</p>
<p>we care</p>
<p>ok thats cool</p>
<p>I think the North Campus design is terrible. It's like a suburban office park - nothing like the main campus or other top 25 schools. It's like being at a different school than UM. College students should not be expected to have a car IMO.</p>
<p>OK, maybe the distant location could not be avoided, but I think it was a mistake not laying out North Campus with its own classic quads (buildings close together) and pedestrian mobility as top priority. It's one of the biggest downsides to UM in my mind.</p>
<p>hahahahaha....NC is cool but its just way to quiet...feel like you're in the middle of nowhere...but its nice in the winter just cause of the tree's and what not....w/e lol</p>
<p>A lot of students are going to end up in dorms on North Campus -- so I think it's really important to recognize what's good about it. When I went to the University of Maryland, it reminded me of North Campus. Parts of Michigan State - a lot like North Campus. There are over 2000 students living in Baits and Bursley - it's not like you're going to be alone! Next year, the Hill is going to be pretty much a construction zone - if my kid were going to Michigan next year, and wasn't in Honors or Residential College, and not interested in all-female housing, I would recommend Bursley.</p>
<p>WS guy, I don't know what you are talking about. North campus buildings are much more together than Central campus. Everything is connected, you don't even have to walk outside to get to other buildings.</p>
<p>NYao, for instance, the Music school is in the woods with a parking lot on a winding road, hundreds of yards walking distance to any other building (which I believe is some random dorm). The dorms there are hundreds of yards walking distance to anything. It makes no sense to me to land-lock students like that when they had a "clean sheet" to lay that new campus out. Maybe we're just arguing subjectives, but I think they should have copied something like their own Law quad (of course using much cheaper materials) and they'd have a classic and usable campus.</p>