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SabreH43
Marquette University '13
Majoring in Construction Engineering
Member since 1/12/2010
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A Second Chicago
People don't think of Milwaukee as that great of a city but honestly you'll find everything that a city such as Chicago has to offer in Milwaukee and more. There are tons of restaurants and bars. There are the Bucks, Brewers and Milwaukee Admirals games to go to. There's a great beach and an amazing lakefront park. A lot of the bars in Milwaukee are big MU supporters too so you can always catch an away basketball game at the bars.
Oct 05, 2011
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Rapidly Improving
While there are buildings that need to be updated, over the past couple of years Marquette has built 3 new buildings (Raynor library, Eckstein Law, and Engineering hall) which are three of the most impressive buildings I've seen. Especially the new engineering building (although I'm slightly biased because I'm an engineering major). On the note, being a construction engineering major I know that there are plans to build a new dorm, a new rec center and a new nursing school in the near future.
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Better Each Year
Freshman year is kind of rough in term of quality. Especially in Mccormick;however, you will have the time of you life in mccormick. It's just one big party there. It has a dining hall that's open until midnight which is nice. O'donnell is an all male dorm which sucks but you'll meet your best friends there. Each dorm has its open special perk. The sophomore dorms are much nicer in terms of, well, everything (room size, condition, dining halls). Schroeder is the sophomore equivalent to mccormick but its much nicer. McCabe is unbelievably nice, pretty much apartment style rooms. Oh and Abbotsford is pretty nice too, its freshman only and they're huge triple rooms. Pretty much you can have any dorm experience you want, there are the party dorms, the really nice and quite dorms or the academic dorms.
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Computers Available, but Nice to Have Your Own
There are computer labs in most buildings but not all. They are decent size but you just have to know which ones to go to cause the main ones get crowded. It's just easier to have your own laptop anyways. The network is great, its fast and reliable. There is a system called PrintWise that lets you print from a school printer from any computer(even your own laptop). This is very, very handy when you forget to print out homework or just need to print anything out while you're in a campus building and don't have a printer.
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Skip Social Frats, Academic Frats Prevalent
The social frats are very scarce, only like three or four that ever have parties and they kinda suck. They're just wannabe frats, but it's hard just because greek life isn't that big here. Sororities are fairly popular though. A lot of girls will do it, a lot won't, just depends. The academic fraternities are good though, lots of kids do those, especially business and engineering students.
Oct 05, 2011
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Dorm Strictness Tight, Off Campus Much More Relaxed
The dorm rules suck pretty bad but they're easy to get around, although some are unavoidable. You just have to be sneaky. But a lot of the rules are in place because Marquette is in a city and they don't want random people going into the dorms. Off campus is very nice though. DPS(department of public safety) is so laid back when it comes to parties. Pretty much they're there for two reason, to make sure you don't get robbed by people from the ghetto and to make sure your party doesn't get busted by Milwaukee Police. MPD are the ones you want to watch out for cause they'll hit you hard, but DPS always shows up first to warn you that they might be coming.
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Summer/Spring Great, Winter Not So Much
Typical midwest weather. Summers are excellent but once november hits, then it's pretty crappy until about the end of march.
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Excellent School
Marquette is a very highly regarded academic school. You won't find too many easy classes. You definitely can't just float on by in any major. Engineering is getting really big especially with the new engineering building. Workload is pretty heavy but not all the time which is good, every now and then you get a breather. Marquette really stresses internships which I find the be one of MU's best qualities. They do an excellent job of getting employers in contact with students, after all, that's why we're here at college.
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