<p>I was wondering if anyone knows how the the city and student life is at the school? I'm looking at it as a potential grad school.</p>
<p>I think you mean Ann Arbor.</p>
<p>Hmm… a little insulted here. :/</p>
<p>Like they said on the TV show “Cheers”: </p>
<p>“A Freudian slip is when you say one thing when you’re really thinking about a mother.”</p>
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<p>So, anyone have any wisdom or experience to share besides my typo?</p>
<p>If you posted in the University of Michigan forum, which is pretty active, you would probably get lots of information.</p>
<p>I have only spent a limited amount of time there, and that years ago, but I know a number of people who went to college, graduate school, or law school there, or who have been on faculty there. They tend to love it (but then the ones who don’t love it tend not to come in the first place, or to leave when they can). It’s a classic college town, a place unto itself, with enough townies with enough problems to make things interesting. Detroit used to be the Big City about 90 minutes away, but Detroit itself has been in a long decline, and so the role of the Big City seems to be diffused throughout the Detroit region, which includes Ann Arbor. In other words, there’s lots going on, and some of what’s going on is happening pretty near by, and other stuff is farther away, but there isn’t necessarily some place more attractive.</p>
<p>Michigan is a huge, world-class university with a ton of interesting people doing interesting things. It has approximately the same number of administrative employees that the Roman Empire had at its zenith. The faculty and graduate students are almost uniformly first-rate. People tend to be warm, friendly, and family-oriented. </p>
<p>There are not a lot of super-trendy restaurants, unless you count veganism as super-trendy, and I think it is short on the kind of clubs rap stars rap about. But I could be wrong.</p>