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  • The Arb: Nichols Arboretum
  • Blue Bucks and Dining Dollars: Blue Bucks is money stored on your Mcard that can be used at restaurants in campus buildings such as the Michigan Union, while Dining Dollars can only be used for dining hall meals and at specific campus stores.
  • Bluebook: An essay exam in which your answers are written in a blue booklet
  • CRISP: This is an acronym for "Computer Registration Involving Student Participation." It means registering for classes online.
  • The Diag: The center of Central Campus; it is the crossroads of campus, bordered by the Grad Library, Mason and Haven halls, and beautiful lawns full of trees.
  • Discussion Section: In accordance with a lecture, a discussion section is a smaller group of students usually led by a GSI, where the subject material is talked about in a more intimate setting, and assignments are turned in and graded for a course.
  • Festifall: An event at the beginning of fall semester each year where nearly all of the 900 student organizations set up a table on and around the Diag soliciting new members and involvement; this is a great way to join groups and clubs.
  • Fishbowl: The Angell Hall computing site
  • Group Homework : You’ll most likely encounter this first in your calculus class, where certain problems are done in groups and due weekly.
  • GSI: This stands for graduate student instructor, which is a teaching assistant that sometimes leads discussion sections in larger classes.
  • Hash Bash: This happens one Saturday each April. Thousands of students and pot heads from around the region come to Ann Arbor to celebrate marijuana. Part protest, part festival—it’s a sight to be seen.
  • The Hill: This is a section of campus that houses the majority of first-year students. Residence halls here include Couzens, Alice Lloyd, Markley, Mosher-Jordan (Mo-Jo), and Stockwell.
  • Maize Craze: The student section at men’s basketball games in Crisler Arena; students have the best seats in the house and wear maize-colored T-shirts.
  • Naked Mile: This is a tradition started by the men’s crew team years ago that involves naked students running through campus on the night of the last day of classes each spring.
  • Pre-Game: Sometimes used interchangeably with "pre-party," but most often this refers to the parties people have outside before a school football game.
  • Pre-Party: The act of partying before going out to the bars; it can be a party before a home football game, too.
  • The Rock: This is a giant rock on the corner of Washtenaw and Hill streets that is painted practically every night of the year by one group or another for birthdays and other events.
  • The UGLi: Stands for the Undergraduate Library (Shapiro) on South University Avenue
Things I Wish I Knew Before Coming To School
  • How lenient campus security is
  • How long and cold winters are
  • That almost all freshman lecture courses are taught by GSIs
Tips to Succeed
  • Be open to new opportunities.
  • Bring warm clothes.
  • Form study groups.
  • Get Entrée Plus.
  • Go to Festifall.
  • Paint the Rock.
  • Study hard.
  • Walk in the Arb.
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pauliebe

Psychology '15

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Rescollege

Do Residential College. It's a lot of work, but if you're already interested in language the intensive language requirement just gets it out of the way. There are incredible options for classes, majors and the atmosphere is wonderful. There is no "Michigan Attitude" in the RC

Feb 07, 2012

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Spring Classes!

Take spring classes! It's only a few extra weeks (since we have a four month long summer, that's not a problem at all). The weather in Ann Arbor at that time is fantastic. You can relax, get a job, and fulfill some requirements to take some stress off!

Dec 13, 2011

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sfrancis92

Bioengineering and Biomedical Engineering '15

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You Never Have to Leave Campus

The campus is located so close to downtown that there is really no reason to ever leave. There is so much going on all the time. Anyone who is bored it is their own fault. There are so many school clubs, activities, social events, music programs there is never time to get bored. The school sets a high standard in its academic learning that if you are not seriour about learning you do not belong there.

Nov 16, 2011

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Traditions
  • The Naked Mile: The Naked Mile is a Michigan tradition that is often emulated on campuses around the country; students run through the streets naked in the spring.
  • Wade in the Water: At orientation, your leader will make you walk through the fountain, just outside of the Michigan League, in the direction of the Diag and the Grad Library. It is a tradition that upon graduation, you walk through the fountain the opposite way, toward Rackham Hall, home of Michigan’s Graduate Department.
Urban Legends
  • If you kiss someone under the West Hall Arch at midnight, that’s the person you’re going to marry.
  • If you step on the “M” in the center of the Diag, you’ll fail your first bluebook exam.
  • The pumas outside the doors of the Museum of Natural History only roar on two occasions: when Michigan beats Ohio State in football and when a virgin graduates from the University.

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