OT: What dorm did you live in at U-M?

NORTH QUAD.

Given I'm the young one around here (and the only reason why they put me there as a freshman was an immersion program I was in — started and lived there Winter 2021) it wouldn't be a surprise if I'm the only MGoBlogger who lived there. As aforementioned, it is "the Four Seasons of dorms." It was peak COVID ghost town campus-wise though, and North Quad was about the worst of it. Didn't help I was in a single. Now I'm on Hill St a stones throw from everything. I know, I'm spoiled.

I like to say I wasn't entirely deprived of the true dorm experience as I lived in MoJo (Mosher side upper floors) for a few weeks in a summer program before I was in college. Dad lived in South Quad mid-80s, and according to him there was no place like home.

West Quad: Wenley House, 1st Floor.

Along with BB players, Phil Hubbard, Bobby Jones, Alan Hardy, and Tommy Staton; as well as FB players Mike Kenn and Rock Lindsey. A first-round NBA and NFL player. Pretty good I'd say.

Bursley, then Mojo.

Everyone complains about Bursley, but I was able to have a car parked there, and if you were engineering you had a ton of classes up north anyway.

Yeah it wasn't great for partying I guess.  But I spent more time playing ball at the NCRB than I did partying anyway.  And I was able to ride my bike to a lot of classes.

Bursley Hall 1971-72 academic year. Bursley and the School of Music were about the only things on North Campus, besides the married student housing.  No recreational building so we had to bus down to Waterman.  Although we all loved Waterman.

Nothing worse than a night out in Ann Arbor central campus/downtown, taking the bus back to Bursley and waking up heading back to central campus.

We thought of Bursley as Siberia.  There was a Lum's on the other side of Plymouth Road, but that was about it for off-campus food.  The basement grill was name Fannerio.

South Quad x2. 6th Gomberg was fine. 5th Bush changed my life, because the eventually-to-be-Mrs. Olaf moved in around the corner from me mid-year. 

Markley.  5th Van Tyne.  1992-93.  I was a late applicant and thought for sure I was going to get stuck in Bursley.

Nothing remarkable about Markley although the grill in the bottom level was a bonus.  

Jeter was friends with someone in my hall.  Saw him a couple times but I really had no idea who he was (or was going to be rather) back then.

Edit:  I tore knee cartilage playing summer league soccer prior to my freshman year.  Didn't realize the extent of that injury until I was jogging on campus a couple months later and the torn piece lodged itself in such a way that I couldn't fully extend my leg.  Luckily, I was almost back to Markley and the hospital was a short hobble across the street.  Unluckily, Markley was a hike from pretty much everywhere else on campus and crutching around sucked.

Fletcher -- It was ... interesting. But still awesome. Purposefully made the switch because I did not want to be on North.

1969 and 1970 in Michigan House West Quad. Freshman year and Sophomore years. First year Michigan House was all freshman since the plan was to have it empty but they had higher admissions, so put all extra freshman in Michigan House. Sophomore year, the fourth floor of Michigan House became the first all male dorm to have a female floor. Good times having ladies living upstairs. 

Mary Markley, 5th Van Tyne freshman year (94-95). Got an ice storm one night. I tried (not very hard) to get up the hill to get to class, but failed. Melted later on in the day, but It WaS sTiLl So IcY

While in high school in Atlanta, I attended the Michigan debate camp over the summer and stayed in Couzens. I did debate camps at Emory in 90, Michigan in 91, and American University (DC) in 92. Good times. 

/nerd

Bursley - Deuce Rot 07-08

Markley. When there Jean Dixon prophesied a bunch of people would die on Halloween in a big ten dorm shaped like a letter of the alphabet. With the end near we drank. 

Freshman year I was on 2nd Frost in Markley. Small 10x10 rooms with no sink. 
 

Good that you’re still on central campus, but you are definitely farthest away from everything. Would have been cool to be on Hill looking over Palmer. Cafeteria was always open, which was nice in winters not to have to get a coat on to go get breakfast. 
 

sophmore year was in west quad, I think it was Adam’s across from south quad. Lots of fun, big 13x17 room with a sink. We had a couple football players on our floor that were cool with us and the location is prime for everything. Mug and cafeteria open all the time and can easily mix up and head to south quad. 
 

Fun times. 

South Quad - Hunt House, 87-89; West Quad sucks and we always kicked their ass in the snowball fight.

Still pissed at the asshole who pulled the fire alarm late in the championship game.  Luckily, we knew people with an apartment nearby and were able to race over there to see the end of the game and OT.

Bursley. On the frozen tundra of north campus back when there wasn't much there. My friends on main campus felt sorry for me, but I good memories. 

Baits II, Ziwet House 2005-2006.

For all of the hate that North Campus dorms get, it really wasn't bad. Got a single suite (shared an interconnecting bathroom with my suitemate) and a parking spot as a freshman. While I would have preferred to have been on Central all else being equal, getting a single and having a parking spot were my top two priorities, so it worked out great (made the calculated decision to request Baits, knowing that even if I requested Central I'd have a ~50% of getting put on North anyway (and no way I'd get a single on Central as a freshman), and by requesting a single in Baits I'd be ahead in priority of everyone that requested elsewhere but was put there). Only downsides were having to take the bus and not having a dining hall at Baits (having to walk over to Bursley).

Cambridge House.  It was a graduate dorm attached to the Michigan Union that used to be the old Michigan Union Hotel.  It was also attached to West Quad.  Best location on all of campus. 

Since it used to be a hotel, each room had its own bathroom, and since it was connected to the Michigan Union, you did not have to go outside when it was cold to get to the Union and its shops. 

Due to a mix up, I was the only male on an all-female floor.  This worked to my advantage far beyond what I deserved, multiple times. 

Part of my soul still lives there.

Mosher-Jordan Fall 1985-Spring 1987

West Quad - 4th floor Williams House 1978-80.Loved pretty much everything about it. Leon West the director was very cool. Sneaking into the union bowling alley and the underground steam tunnels was very fun.

The first people I met on my hall were Paul Heuerman and the Mark and Marty Bodnar twins which made quite an impression on a first day freshman UM sports junkie.

The next guys I met had their walls covered in aluminum foil and used neon paint to paint comets on the ceiling (like being inside a cosmic microwave). One of these guys worked in the Chem department and " procured" a large funnel and  secured with surgical tubing stretched around a window frame, and shot oranges over Rumsey House into and over South Quad. Later in the semester this started an epic snowball fight between the athletes in both Quads.

Bates. What did I know?

Chicago House. Mel Owens stole our beer keg one night. Bo made him bring it back and apologize. Fun times in the 70's oh yeah.