"Private" Dorms-regional self-segregation?

anon94785555
Thu, 10 May 2007 15:15:46 +0000

Bravo to the students and their parents who choose the regular dorms despite the NYC lore- my Long Island roommate included. I can still remember my first exposures to so many different ways of living- foreign, farm, city, small town… The learning is subtle, often observations of differences and similarities you notice with months of living in the same quarters. This thread got me to thinking about roommates- I could write reams on this thread about people and all I absorbed from my exposure to them. This shows how a large campus can mean so many different things to different people- the old blind men and the elephant story.

Breaking my revery- I’m confused about UM-UMich- which do people use? And what accent- everyone knows that Wisconsin/Michigan accents are the standard of tv… (grin- someday I’ll bother to learn how to do the symbols, maybe).