Places to visit at Campus? (Prospective Student)

Submitted by Orlando2 on
Hello, everyone! I will be visiting the university soon, for the first time since I was nine years-old. I was wondering if the alumni on this website would be kind enough to suggest some places to visit! I’ll be applying next year and I want to major in engineering or applied mathematics, so if there are any locations tied to those two majors that I can visit, let me know. Thanks!
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WestQuad

January 11th, 2018 at 7:58 AM ^

The Cube is cool after checking out the Union. I haven’t been in any of the academic buildings in over 20 years but the B-school redo looks cool and some of the other new buildings look nice. I hear West Quad has been revamped too.

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Raizemage11

January 11th, 2018 at 8:03 AM ^

If you are considering engineering you should also check out north campus (the Duderstdat, BBB, EECS, diag). Other than academics, there is not a lot going on (plan accordingly). 

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PeteM

January 11th, 2018 at 8:11 AM ^

This was mentioned before but the law library/quad are jewels of the campus.  I would also suggest the Union and the League for architecture/design and a campusey atmosphere.  I'm not as familar with North Campus, but the Bentley and Ford libraries are both cool facilities. 

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MGoShorts

January 11th, 2018 at 8:14 AM ^

Oh man, you're going to live on north campus and commute to Dennison like it's your job. Godspeed.

Check out the libraries, and definitely walk around downtown. If there's one thing I could redo from my time in AA, it would be going downtown much more often.

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huntmich

January 11th, 2018 at 8:26 AM ^

How has no one mentioned the Arb yet!? Go there and bask in the glory of nature... That you will enjoy more during the spring. Seriously though I love that place. Hill auditorium is terrific, although I don't know if you can go in unless there's a show. You will be spending the rest of your life in the Duderstadt, so you best go check it out. Main library on North campus.

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LSAClassOf2000

January 11th, 2018 at 8:31 AM ^

If we're going to suggest some out of the way places that aren't on the guided tour, then I think you definitely need to check out The Stacks in the Hatcher Graduate Library, where there is much studying going on, but PLEASE KNOCK FIRST. That last part is important. 

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NOLA Wolverine

January 11th, 2018 at 8:40 AM ^

Engineering is on North Campus, so it might be good to go look around up there and see what you need to spend as much time avoiding as possible when not in class.

The Diag is the place to be spending your flex time. The Law Library is a great place for silent studying, assuming the Law School hasn't completed their take over of the main study room yet.

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crg

January 11th, 2018 at 8:44 AM ^

Firstly, I recommend declaring as an engineering student when you enroll instead of applied math.  Your first year would be general prereqs (most of which are needed for either college) and one or two survey/intro engineering courses to give you a better understanding of the various engineering departments before you decide to choose one (there are many).  And, if you decide you want to go with applied math, it is much easier to transfer from college of engineering (CoE) to Literature-Science-Arts (LSA) than the converse.

Most of the "happening" places for food./music/social scene are near central campus, which is just the nature of how the university and town grew.  North campus is beautiful and quieter, but not much immediately near it aside from strip malls and generic restaurants.

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Orlando2

January 11th, 2018 at 9:00 AM ^

Thank you all for the great suggestions. I had no idea my first post (took me an damn hour to figure out how to make) would receive this much feedback.

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