UMich students, how do you find your school facilities

<p>Now that you've finally enrolled in UMich, what can you say about its facilities?</p>

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<li><p>labs</p></li>
<li><p>class rooms</p></li>
<li><p>libraries</p></li>
<li><p>computer rooms</p></li>
<li><p>dorms</p></li>
<li><p>campus environment/landscape</p></li>
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<li>decent</li>
<li>Some are better than others</li>
<li>average</li>
<li>Fishbowl is really good</li>
<li>SQUIRRELS!</li>
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<p>1: Pretty good
2: Most are good, Big screen T.V’s the lecture halls are pretty decent, although teachers/professors do experience technical difficulties here and there.
3:I like the UGLI and the Duderstat libraries, hatcher is good for extreme studying to because you aren’t really allowed to talk, but our library facilities are average…I don"t know how to judge a library.
4: Fishbowl is an excellent place. So many computers and places to study, although it can get loud in there…it is an excellent computer room.
5:Dorms are good, but it depends on where you live. I would say they are average, but there are those nice ones.
6:Campus surroundings are excellent. So many places to go, so many things to eat, there is a lot to do. Although the parties on campus have died down somewhat since welcome week, there is still Necto and other clubs to go to…Ann Arbor is a great college town.</p>

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<li><p>Goodish… I really had no idea what to expect, and it neither blew me away nor was a disappointment. </p></li>
<li><p>The Dennison building (I think mostly Math classes?) sucks. The rest of the rooms I’ve seen are pretty good though. </p></li>
<li><p>How much are you really going to be using books in a library? There’s lots of computers around if that’s what you mean. </p></li>
<li><p>They’re in the libraries.</p></li>
<li><p>Nothing to say…</p></li>
<li><p>North campus is pretty, central is ugly. Central is very ugly.</p></li>
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<li><p>labs</p>

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<li>Have’t seen any</li>
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<li><p>class rooms- Fine. There is wireless and most of the auditoriums I have classes in even have outlets at every seat, which makes me happy. A classroom is a classroom, as long as there are enough desks I don’t know what’s not to like.</p></li>
<li><p>libraries- I love the libraries here. There are tons of them. There are like 20 different libraries on campus, and there’s always the Ann Arbor public library, too.</p></li>
<li><p>computer rooms- I like that there is a computer lab right in my residence hall, and the fishbowl is cool too. I appreciate that there are both Macs and PCs, and there are scanners in my residence hall computer lab.</p></li>
<li><p>dorms- I love my dorm. It’s big, it’s comfortable, it’s not stifling hot like I was afraid it’d be, loooove it. I got lucky though and got a huge corner room that I think used to be a triple instead of a double because there are three closets.</p></li>
<li><p>campus environment/landscape- I love it. I love that there is a great downtown area where most stuff is, but you can go wander around in the woods at the Arb any time you want, too, or go chill by the banks of the Huron river (which I went swimming in yesterday for geography lab :P). It’s the best of both worlds. And I really don’t think Central is even that ugly. Yeah, it’s a downtown area, which isn’t exactly picturesque but there are lots of pretty buildings and trees and plenty of shops and restaurants to look at. Plus most of the time I am able to cut across campus through the diag to get to all of my classes, which almost makes it seem like I’m not downtown anymore. Once you’ve been to like… Detroit, I don’t know how anyone could complain about Ann Arbor being ugly.</p></li>
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<p>“Once you’ve been to like… Detroit, I don’t know how anyone could complain about Ann Arbor being ugly.”</p>

<p>You’re right. Compared to Detroit, central campus is not ugly at all.</p>

<p>Perhaps very ugly is too strong, but it is not pretty. However if you’re looking at Engineering or Art/Music/Theatre or whatever else is up there, I have nothing but compliments for the appearance of north campus.</p>

<p>“A classroom is a classroom, as long as there are enough desks I don’t know what’s not to like.”</p>

<p>True… Check out how many people sit on the floors in some of the classes in the Dennison building. As well, a class that has 25 students and 30 desks with 10 of them being lefty desks also doesn’t work. And many of them are that tiny desk type where at most, you can fit a single sheet of paper. Perhaps that isn’t a big deal, but I’m just not used to them, as my highschool had really nice desks.</p>

<p>I haven’t had any issue with not having enough desks but have no classes in Dennison, I think on my tour our guide told us that was pretty much the ugliest, most obnoxious building on campus. If there is any debate about that, that’d make for an interesting thread. :stuck_out_tongue: I personally hate the Natural Science building but that’s just because I don’t stand a freaking chance of finding the auditorium if I don’t go in the right door, and I always get it mixed up with like… maybe the chem building, I don’t even know, when I am coming from the diag. Or USB because I had such a hard time finding it the first day that I had to take a cry-break and nearly went home to drop the class. Most of my non-auditorium classes are actually in Mason.</p>

<p>Dennison classrooms are by far the worst on campus. Everywhere else is pretty good. Not like high school or anything, but good nonetheless.
Mason Hall ground floor (where all the great books discussions are) have really nice classrooms and chairs (adjustable too).</p>

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<li><p>top quality, although I do have a friend who says one of her labs didn’t have any chairs for some reason so they had to stand the whole our.</p></li>
<li><p>not amazing, but certainly better than the ones I had in high school. Kept clean and well-maintained.</p></li>
<li><p>libraries are amazing. the resources never end, and if you need quiet you can find it.</p></li>
<li><p>all computers seem to be less than three years old and run well. I think macs have the majority but there are plenty of pcs as well.</p></li>
<li><p>dorm-ish. It’s nothing to write home about, but it’s a dorm.</p></li>
<li><p>fabulous. the atmosphere doesn’t get better than this, although trekking across campus is an absolute drag when it’s rainy.</p></li>
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<p>Also one other note… There’s some big issue with staplers or something, there is never one in a classroom, and it seems like it’s wrong to ask for one. I really don’t understand it.</p>

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<li><p>The labs are decent. Kind of like the ones in my high school.</p></li>
<li><p>They’re okay. Dennison isn’t spectacular but I don’t think it’s horrible. My least favorite one is in the MLB basement. It might just be my specific classroom, but that’s the only place where I’ve seen the super small, “single sheet of paper” desks.</p></li>
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<p>Also I have yet to see a clock in any classroom, so make sure you carry a phone or a watch. And qwertykey is right, no staplers anywhere. Almost all classrooms have wireless, though.</p>

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<li><p>Haven’t been in the libraries much, but they look nice. I’ve been to shapiro and the grad library.</p></li>
<li><p>Really good. The fishbowl is my favorite, but every lab I’ve been to has impressed me. The computers are actually good and seem pretty fast.</p></li>
<li><p>I can only speak for Bursley. It’s average/not bad; the room seems small to me (11x14 double) but the food is good and the building itself is nice-ish. I think the biggest good/bad factor about your living area would be your roommate, not the room itself. The Bursley-Baits bus really sucks in the mornings. A lot more than I expected it to.</p></li>
<li><p>visit</p></li>
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<p>^
lol
every single desk is super small.</p>

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<p>Wow that sucks. All my other rooms are auditoriums or have tables with chairs around them, so I didn’t know of any other desks.</p>

<p>Don’t worry, you get use to it.</p>