Housing and Dorms

ktwish101
Thu, 11 Dec 2008 21:14:50 +0000

Hey,
I’m currently a freshman at michigan and thought i would give some input on the dorms here that would be available.
As far as picking your dorm, you don’t really have any say the first year. On the housing application you get to pick either north campus or hill/central. Its pretty random in the end.
Right now I live in markley, which has the reputation as “the best freshman dorm”, personally I’m not happy with it. The rooms are tiny, but most dorm rooms are and when putting 1200 freshman together in one building you know it’s gonna get crazy. If your really into partying, drinking, rude people it’s the place to be i guess from my experience. If you prefer i to come back to a quiet environment, you may want to look else where…
I can honestly say north campus is NOT as bad as people make it out to be! Its about a 15 minute bus right down to the central part of campus and the buses come about every 10 minutes. The north campus environment is much calmer and “homey” I think. Yea, taking a bus to get to classes can be a pain, but if you do end up stuck there it’s not the end of the world!
theres lot of other dorms on the hill area as well as central, literally minutes from your main classes in lsa, but most are for learning community students which you can apply for on the housing application, I think some require an essay maybe? applying to a learning community can be a good way to make sure you get a certain dorm if accepted.
any other questions, i’d be happy to give more… :)