Make me love Michigan

owlbay
Sat, 14 Apr 2012 23:26:14 +0000

Forget about love. Go with the money. In-state for Michigan, take it. Colleges are way overpriced and graduates struggle to get jobs. The college experience is way overrated anyway.

Now as for loving Michigan: It’s a big place with all kinds of people and programs. Mich. does more for it’s undergrads than most big schools. Ann Arbor is a wonderful city, one of the best in the world. There is so much arts and culture and music, so many speakers and intellectuals. You’ll never take it all in.

The research orientation has its good and bad. The obsession with rankings is stupid. It does attract some brilliant professors though. There’s all kinds of academic pretentiousness but that’s a problem all over academia.

I love the campus. There are so many gorgeous buildings.

I met many interesting people there who turned me onto all kinds of ideas. The students generally are going places in life and that rubs off on you.

The RC is a great way to get a more intimate experience. Mich. offers more interdisciplinary studies than most schools. The RC has more of a hands on focus than most schools.

If you are in-state, go and enjoy it. It’s one of the best college experiences going. Save your pennies. Consider yourself very lucky that you can go there for in-state prices.