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

Submitted by BTB grad on August 15th, 2022 at 7:29 PM

While hearing a lot of parents talk about moving their kids in for the school year, it’s made me think back to my dorm experience and feel a rush of nostalgia. So what dorm did you stay at Michigan? What did you love/hate about your experience there? What was unique about it compared to the rest of U-M housing?

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M Ascending

August 16th, 2022 at 9:48 AM ^

Chicago House,  West Quad, 1969-71. The whole freshman basketball class lived on my floor, including the great Henry Wilmore, Ken Brady. Ernie Johnson, and John Lockard. There were also some baseball players, including Leon Roberts, who went on to have a very good career in MLB.

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Durham Blue

August 15th, 2022 at 11:39 PM ^

Adams House 1991-92 checking in.  We were champs of the intramural softball league that year, baby!  Loaded team.  I lived next door to Mike Knuble and Rick Willis of the Michigan hockey team.  Knuble later became a Stanley Cup champion with the Detroit Red Wings.  Both were extremely nice.  And excellent neighbors, aside from the loudness in the hall during 4am hazings from their prospective fraternity.  My coolest story ever, bro.

To answer OP's question, West Quad was generally considered the best dorm back in the early 90's when I was there because of its prime location on central campus.  Close proximity to everything.  Short walk to the bus stop for North Campus, where I went frequently being an engineering student.  You could say the same for South Quad but that was not as nice of a dorm.  I may be outdated here but that's what I recall.  I also lived in Markley (freshman year) on the hill and it was meh.  Farther walk to central campus, not as nice as West Quad, but close to the CCRB and Nubs computing center.  Computing centers are probably not a thing anymore because like everyone has a computer these days.

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TonyinLA

August 15th, 2022 at 7:53 PM ^

I also lived in Adams in West Quad (fourth floor) in the early 00's.  Spent freshman year there and the location is unbeatable. 

I later spent a few years as a RA in Couzens and that was great too.  Location was almost as good for Central Campus and it was a short bus ride up to North Campus.  The athletic field and CCRB (if it is still called that) being right there were additional bonuses.  

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blue in dc

August 15th, 2022 at 9:49 PM ^

Lived 3 doors down from him freshman year.   Still remember having breakfast with him one morning when two girls approached and asked if he was an athlete.   He replied yes.   They asked what sport and he said tennis.    They left all pissed off thinking that he was screwing with them.   He was just his normal pleasant self throughout the entire episode and afterwards explained to me yes, that while few had trouble believing he was an elite athlete, surprisingly many struggled to believe it could be in tennis.

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PM

August 15th, 2022 at 7:42 PM ^

+1 on West Quad (Rumsey).  Great location (closer to sports and Blimpy Burgers way before they moved) and much nicer than S. Quad.

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MMBbones

August 15th, 2022 at 7:42 PM ^

I didn't live in a dorm. I lived in Bursley Hall. It was more of an assylum. 

Loved: waiting for the bus in the middle of winter, the distance from any tempting locations in A^2 that would have potentially interrupted my studies, the tight confines of NCRB instead of that way-too-well-appointed CCRB, the open fields that we were told would one day be a beautiful campus (which was true, but not very useful)...

Edit: The cafeteria had a nice donut machine I remember fondly. Nice warm donuts right out of the contraption that you could smear with chocolate. And you could have a car and park it for free. That was nice.   I'm trying to think of anything else positive to say...

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BTB grad

August 15th, 2022 at 7:46 PM ^

I lived at Oxford Houses. Since it was small, there was no dedicated security present but instead a security guard would drive over and do their rounds once around 11pm. Once they came & went, we had the license to go nuts. I remember beer pong tables being pulled out into the hallway. Loved the Twigs dining hall for the grill which had made to order burgers, sandwiches, & quesadillas. Those BLTs and chicken quesadillas came in clutch during late night hours. I used to sleep like a baby on those dorm beds. Would kill to get that kind of quality sleep agian.

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Indy Pete - Go Blue

August 15th, 2022 at 7:46 PM ^

Couzen’s Hall. I loved how close it was to Da Vinci‘s pizza - $5 dollar large one topping pizzas. The security officer was a white-haired dude who loved to tell everybody that Madonna was a student as a freshman in our same dorm when he was the security guard. 
 

I was the proud holder of the dorm record, 70 nuggets in one meal. That record may still stand.

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