UM rooms and neighborhood

Colleges and Universities A-Z University of Michigan
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<p>Hey, just wanted to ask ungraduate and grad students for a recommendation regarding the neighborhoods, which is better? why?</p>

<p>"Central/Hill Neighborhood, North Neighborhood (Baits Houses) and North Neighborhood (Bursley Hall). The Central and Hill Neighborhoods are combined due to the small number of rooms available to new students." (<a href="http://www.umich.edu%5B/url%5D"&gt;www.umich.edu&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p>

<p>And another question.... which type of room is better?
i dont care living with other paper as long as I have some privacy</p>

<p>thanks </p>

<p>bye</p>

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<p>Yeah, I'm working on the housing form right now too. I know the difference between North & Central, but I'm trying to figure out Baits vs. Bursley. I'd love any input. :)</p>

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<p>A little off topic, but...I just filed my $200 deposit for tuition. When do I get my housing forms?</p>

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<p>in about one week, ehmmm.. people, lets focus on the original question... please ...thanks jeje</p>

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<p>Bursley is one huge dorm, with cafeteria, vending machines, game room, etc. All of the stuff that typical university dorms have. Lots of people, large community, so you're bound to find people you connect with.</p>

<p>Baits housing was originally graduate student housing, so it's set up for more independent people. It's set up in a series of small buildings, each little pod of 4 or so rooms on a floor share a bathroom that they are in charge of, each little building has it's own kitchenette. Small community, so it's kind of hit or miss as to whether or not you like the people around you, but it's a very good setup if you get along with them (like my friend did).</p>

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<p>Bursley has the best food out of all the campus foods.</p>

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<p>I would say if your a freshman and in LSA, you should try to live close to central campus if you want minimize time spent getting to class. If your in Engineering, most of your classes will be in north campus as the Engin buildings are all up there.
Don't really know what to say about hill.</p>

<p>Baits- way out there, next to nothing, isolated, sucks.</p>

<p>Bursley- pretty new, supposedly better food, decent-sized rooms.</p>

<p>Markley- all freshman, people say fun atmosphere for the first few weeks but
then it gets pretty old after that (pranks, DPS officers, false fire
alarms)</p>

<p>Stockwell- All-girls, um that's all I know. I've heard all the substance free, no sex before marriage, really conservative girls
live here.</p>

<p>Helen Newberry/Betsy Barbour- I think you have to be in some kind of program to live here. They're basically adjacent to
each other All girls. Great location ( 5-8 minutes away from the Union and Diag) </p>

<p>East Quad- kids in the Residential College live here (the avant-gard, beatnik, experiemental music kids, etc) sucks in
comparison to the other quads. The only pro I can think of is that it's close to Bubble Island.</p>

<p>South Quad- Honors kids/athletes, better breakfast food quality, great
location (about 7-10 minute walk to the diag)</p>

<p>West Quad- mostly upper-classmen/some athletes but a lot of freshmen too.<br>
Depending on your hall, you might have a decent to great-sized
room. Serves special meals during holidays and we have a
burrito bar. Great convenience as it's DIRECTLY connected to the Union, owns South
Quad in the annual snowball fight. Best location (5 minutes to
diag, State and South University street only a few seconds
away) Best Res Hall in my opinion but then again I live here but
ask around and lots of people will agree.</p>

<p>Hope this helps</p>

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<p>So a normal (i.e no special programs, RC, Honors, Atlete) male freshman student would have to stay in Bursley, Baits or Markley?</p>

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So a normal (i.e no special programs, RC, Honors, Atlete) male freshman student would have to stay in Bursley, Baits or Markley?

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<p>Basically, yeah. Most Freshmen are in Bursley or Markley. There's a few scattered in Lloyd, West Quad and South Quad as well, but the highest concentration is def in Bursley / Markley.</p>

<p>If you have a choice, West Quad and South Quad are probably the best locations.</p>

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<p>Not all freshmen who aren't in programs get put in Markley/North Campus. I know two guys from last year who got put into South Quad, and one who got put in a single in East Quad, and they aren't part of any residential programs.</p>

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<p>Thanks! The website should really get a 'what students say' about each neighborhood/dorm. It would make things so much easier.</p>

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<p>azurek, how long of a walk is markley from central campus?</p>

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<p>thanks so much for the information!!!! this forum rocks!</p>

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<p>The walk from Markley is doable, but I find it pretty annoying when I have to make that trek during the summer. I'm not sure if it would suck more in heat and humidity, or cold and snow.</p>

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<p>that's something i need to think about. hopefully if i get accepted to mich, when i fill out my housing app, i was thinking about putting the hill as my first choice assuming more people put central so i could avoid getting stuck on north campus.</p>

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<p>OBrien, the Central/Hill option is one combined option, so you can't specify which you would prefer between the two. However, the North Campus halls (Bursley or Baits) are separate options.</p>

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<p>From Markley to West Quad is about 15-20 minutes. Some people bike but either way, I can't imagine how much it sucks in the winter.</p>

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<p>That sounds about right, I can get to WQ from Markley in about 15 or so. </p>

<p>The only bad part is the "wind tunnel" that's right in front of Markley. It's so cold and windy...</p>