Bonetti's "A personal portrait of a skater representing the University of Michigan" is solid too.
I wish I had made a video. Would be cool to see it again.
Must have been great to have had a freshman year you could distill into a video that made it seem like everything was an absolutely great time. With about one night spent in a library.
It's great to think everyone automatically has an awesome time at Michigan, complete with lawn parties with spraying beers and tank topped-students and laughs and great times.
Sure, a positive-feelings video on social media is generally going to be biased in favor of positive experiences that are worth watching.
Perhaps you are arguing that anything less than full, generally-ordinary, sometimes-dark documentation is dishonest(?) or at least no more honest than propaganda. I suppose there is a certain inescapable logic to that, but even then very many first year students are often happy and sometimes encounter lawn parties. I'd even argue that very many first year students encounter very many lawn parties. So, within the spectrum of propanda, this video was built on the more honest end.
TL/DR: It didn't encapsulate me as a human, either, but that didn't stop me from relating to it.
You're over thinking this. This was supposed to be a fun/entertaining video. Who wants to watch a video of people studying in a library?
It's a show about nothing.
You go to the coffee shop. That's a show.
Also, why go to a library to study? Why go to an office when you can work from home? The world is a-changin
I for one believe that I was shorted my alotted number of tank topped students my freshman year. I am seeking a refund from the bursar's office.
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I don't think you did college correctly
Zing! I thought I saw one very brief library shot in there.
i honestly don't think i went to the library much/if at all my frosh year. i spent a lot of time studying in my dorm computer lab/the fish bowl (which resulted in shitty grades first year).
My first year at Michigan...studying, reading online about college football, studying at the grad library, talking about the football team, trying to study at the UGLi, but then moving somewhere else as it was too loud, and then watching the football team.
Graduating was the dumbest thing I ever did.
The video reminded me of some great memories.
being only 6 years removed from my frosh year, that video made my heart drop a bit. looking back on it, that was probably the best year of my life. they had the same football tickets (or very close) to what I had as well.
however, i remember at the time thinking that i was going to flunk out, missing my friends at home, and everything else. lots of emotions in that first year.
My black and white still shots from the Fielding Yost era don't quite capture the fun I had my freshman year... but we did!
because there wasn't enough time in the Rick's ladies room with her hair being held back. Would have kept it a bit more real.
Made me smile from ear to ear, and reminded me why it is I Iove this Univeristy the way I do!
(Almost 25 years out....)
Go Blue!!!
my sentiments, exactly. It's GREAT to be a Michigan Wolverine!
( now 40 years out ... )
dance party!
although as i look closely, its just them dancing closely, doing the allasaurus shuffle.
so that's what they call it these days
I just don't remember pregame lawn parties being so prevalent. Post game parties yes, mind you drinking age was 18 and we had kegs in the East Quad cafeterias for the good parties. (Rick Leach was my freshmen QB).
True story: the East Quad cafeteria now has a gelato bar.
Times be changing.
They do letter grades now, too! It's been the case for about 15 years or more.
I do not know how you young kids party anymore.
I looked at all those raves and shouting and stuff and thought, "Yikes, it is probably much too loud in there."
I'll never shake the feeling that I missed out on the best times of my life.