@moooop I fully understand your comments about Michigan and MSU. It’s alive and well in Virginia where UVA looks at VT as “a cow college”. Just don’t remind UVA about which school has the superior engineering school …
@MACmiracle Was the place with the great and cheap Bi Bim Bap called Steve’s Lunch (on South University)? It was one of my big splurges. 
I was paying for grad school completely on my own and I was the master of cheap and/or free food and drink. I know I was throwing a lot of shade there…I’m sure there are lots of people that attended Wisconsin that feel the same about Madison. Such very special places.
@Swimmingdad we need a thread of our own just for Ann Arbor nostalgia. Loved that Bi Bim Bap… it was the beginning of an addiction that never waned. Now my husband, sons and mother are also big Bi Bim Bap eaters.
I was at UW in the mid-late '90s and have been back probably about annually since. It seems every time I’m back on campus, another of my favorite old shops has closed.
First it was La Bamba, which was our place to go at bar time for Burritos as Big as Your Head. That one hurt.
Both of our go-to pizza places are gone: Pizza Extreme and Gumby’s.
My favorite sub and Italian places are gone too.
There are a handful of bars we used to patronize that are also gone – Bull Feathers, Brothers and Madhatters among them.
Remaining are Wando’s and Red Shed, which I went to a mere handful of times while a student, but I suppose that counts. We settled for Red Shed the most recent time I was on campus with old fraternity bros, and boy were we fish out of water. Smiling the whole time, of course, but it’s just not the same when you’re 41 as it was when you were 21. I find I have become… boring.
So the shade continues in the same spirit as recently conveyed: Michigan and Wisconsin need to bring back the hosts of some of our fondest memories. Stop messing with our nostalgia.
@wis75 can probably back me up on some of this.
A late addition: The Nitty Gritty is still there. That is the place where my 21st birthday shenanigans began. They ended up… well that’s a story for another time. Anyway, the Gritty is still there, which is nice. But the nostalgia-robbing situation still SUCKS overall.
The Gritty that is there now is a FAR cry from the original which featured great bands in a small space and best “hippy” chick dancers in town at the time. There also were the string of bars the OOS kids tended to prefer–The Cardinal, The Havana Club, The Plaza, The Flamingo and the Original Bucks. Best and only great after bar-time food was Parthenon and the Cafe Palm restaurant in the Club D Wash building that burned down.The Oven of Brittany was the first cool French bistro. Other lost relics are Bob & Genes, Gennas and the 602 Club. Merlyns was the place for live punk and new wave music. There was a “secret” after hours club above A Room of Ones Own bookstore. Open till dawn.
Madison too has gone much more upscale with hordes of tech workers moving into the fancy new apts and condos downtown. The restaurants are much improved.
With all this lamenting about how the old college/college town has changed since undergrad days I’m surprised no one has mentioned that the key punch machines in the computer center are gone.
Not to mention the high speed printers that sounded like machine guns!
“mentioned that there were “psycho singles,” single rooms for students who were just flipping out because of the stress of going to Harvard”
LOL. The psycho singles are for students flipping out for ANY reason. :))
@tomofboston The Christmas after my son started at Stanford, one of his presents was a complete FORTRAN program deck from my UT Austin days.He found it hilarious that the sides of the deck had a marker design on it so I could tell if a friend had switched any cards around causing my run to fail.
I didn’t recognize some of the places you mentioned, but:
- Parthenon. Yes, and it's still there. I was partial to Zorba's across the street -- now gone, and for some time apparently -- but Parthenon was the place for Greek. For a short time there was a place called Mykonos not far from Brats, but I went there for their cheesesteaks (go figure).
- The Gritty. Yeah, I did not go there too often back in the day, but when I did it was typically my birthday (free tap beer) and I ordered a Gritty Burger (all three or four times).
My favorite sub places were Cellar Subs and Big Mike’s. Both are gone. The Italian place was in the little plaza across Johnson from (and in between) Witte and Sellery. I cannot remember its name. Visiting family would typically take me there after Concert Choir shows. Had a few dates there too.
Let’s stop talking about food, I’m hungry for Bibimbap and Hmart is 45 miles away!
H-Mart is 55 miles away for me, but I make Bibimbap at home… 
@TiggerDad I do, too, but I’m out of everything but soy sauce and rice!
Here’s a quick and simple but delicious recipe for you, then: Place a raw egg and a teaspoonful of butter in a hot bowl of rice, add some soy sauce and mix. Voila, your hunger fixed!
Sorry to make you all jealous but I’m only 4 1/2 miles from H Mart. I might just cruise on up and pick up some kimchi to eat with my rice tonight or with eggs for breakfast tomorrow. 
H Mart used to have natto, too, for anyone who needs vitamin K. >:)
@MACmiracle Not that it is a competition but…I’m 3.4 miles away from H Mart per Google maps. And there is a a Market Basket in the same plaza…American food with the same crazy shoppers. (Who knew that grocery shopping could be a competitive sport?!)
What thread is this?
Back to the hating?
You’ve all gone soft.
The first time we saw a whole family in (the hideous head-to-toe) Va Tech gears we were so taken aback, till we started seeing all the gobblers’ brazen display of their VaT love. Lol. Wahoos generally are much more low-key about it. I guess “Harvard of the South!” Does not have the need to compare itself with its hickish little cousin :))
So the schools my D18 hated the most upon visiting were NYU and Elon. NYU wasn’t a planned college tour; she did it as part of a theater competition in NYC as a sophomore. Great thing as it helped us eliminate urban campuses off our list. Not her thing.
Elon was a school that I had high hopes for, as she would be a candidate for generous merit aid and they have a good track record with employment in musical theatre, not to mention that we are NC residents so she would be close but not too close. We toured on a day that was 98 degrees in the shade–and the only shade available will be the shade I throw here.
Elon is the kind of school that looked good while driving through it, but close up, I could see the unkempt grass and the old dorms, not to mention a tour guide that stood us in the blazing hot sun while she talked when shade was available. One older woman, clearly a grandmother, nearly fainted on tour and had to go back. Our tour showed us lots of pre-professional things, and not much in the Humanities and arts, which are D’s interests. My husband is a university professor in science, and we didn’t see any science facilities, either, which would have been a redemption of sorts. I felt like the nicest place I saw on the tour was the admissions building. This may not be an accurate perception due to heat exhaustion.
The presentation beforehand was all about tear-jerking moments, and getting your own oak seedling to plant. My rising junior looked at me and mouthed, “Where are the academics?” We’re both pretty immersed in college propaganda by this point, but this seemed a bit much.
My sense of things that this was a good place to go if you don’t want to push yourself academically.