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FactsSlang
- Bluebook - An essay exam in which your answers are written in a blue booklet
- CRISP - This is an acronym for Course Registration Involving Student Participation. It means registering for classes online.
- Entrée Plus - Money that is stored on your M-Card that can be used at restaurants in campus buildings such as the Michigan Union.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 - A tradition started by the men’s crew team years ago, which involves naked students running through campus on the night of the last day of classes each spring.
- Pre-Party - The act of partying before going out to the bars; or, it can be an party before a home football game.
- The Arb - Nichols Arboretum
- 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.
- The Hill - This is a section of campus that houses the majority of first-year students. Residence halls here include Couzens, Alice Lloyd, Markely, Mosher-Jordan (Mo-Jo), and Stockwell.
- The Rock - This is a giant rock on the corner of Washtenaw and Hill street that is painted practically every night of the year by one group or another for birthdays and other events.
Things I Wish I Knew Before Coming To School
- How lenient campus security is
- How long and cold winters are
- How rich the average UM student is
- That almost all freshmen 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
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 Natural History Museum only roar on two occasions: when Michigan beats Ohio State in football, and when a virgin graduates from the University.
Traditions
- The Naked Mile - Although it’s been touched on plenty, the Naked Mile is a Michigan tradition that is often emulated on campuses around the country.
- 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, towards Rackham Hall, home of Michigan’s Graduate Department.
School Spirit
The Michigan marching band is revered by all and widely considered to be among the best in the nation. Michigan students are not ashamed to wear their maize and blue proudly, and you’ll often see many students wearing Michigan gear around campus.
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