Michigan Alum Special Edition
Just got an email from the Alumni Association announcing a special edition program will be included with the Winter 2023-2024 magazine.
If you’re not a member you can order one here for $15 (quantities are limited)
https://alumni.umich.edu/michigan-alum/special-commemorative-edition/
January 24th, 2024 at 2:48 PM ^
https://alumni.umich.edu/michigan-alum/special-commemorative-edition
sorry, the commemorative issue is for the National Champion football team
January 24th, 2024 at 5:16 PM ^
I bought one :P
January 24th, 2024 at 2:50 PM ^
As a Walmart Wolverine, thank you! 🙏
January 24th, 2024 at 3:48 PM ^
please let's not get in the habit of using this term.
January 24th, 2024 at 3:17 PM ^
Be sure not to confuse this with powdered sugar and put that in your punch!
January 24th, 2024 at 4:10 PM ^
I think those of us who are over the age of 45 know what alum is because we watched Jerry use it on Tom. Kids these days don't know what a good cartoon is.
January 24th, 2024 at 5:29 PM ^
Or Bugs on Giovanni Jones...
January 24th, 2024 at 3:04 PM ^
Waiting for the unreasonably nice and expensive MGoBlog version.
January 24th, 2024 at 3:16 PM ^
Unrelated to basically anything we're talking about here but I have to ask. Do any other alums look a the University of Michigan travel brochures we get monthly and think "who the heck has the time and money to go on these?"
I mean I'm sure they're amazing trips but jeez, "come spend 6 weeks in some insanely expense and hard to reach exotic location where you'll be treated like a God and eat like a pig for a measly $70,000 (per person) for economy - fares higher for business & first class."
Obviously I've not gone on one of these. Do the Michigan alum travelers spend their days yelling "Go" and then "Blue" from across the ship? Do they chant "it's great. To be. A Mich-I-gan Wol-ver-ine" during cocktail hours? Do they watch replays from the 1990's Michigan vs OSU football games at night?
Inquiring minds want to know.
January 24th, 2024 at 3:23 PM ^
Do you have Grey Poupon?
January 24th, 2024 at 3:30 PM ^
There are plenty of rich retired alums that have the money to do these trips.
Note for others : you don't have to be a Michigan Alum to be in the Michigan Alumni association.
It's a good deal if you do things like go to Camp Michigania where we took our kids for many summers,
January 24th, 2024 at 3:30 PM ^
My Uncle and Aunt went on the the UM trip to Italy about 10 years ago. It was a 10 day trip to five cities. Each day there was an activity and dinner included. They loved it. They were in their early 70's and thoroughly enjoyed having all the hotels, travel, site seeing, tips, etc. handled for them. All the other travelers were between 50 to 80 years of age. Most were graduates from UM. They both thought the trip was a good value and a good time and a great way to see a new part of the world with a group of people that started with a common love for their university. And "yes", several times Hail To The Victors broke out - usually during a cocktail hour.
January 24th, 2024 at 3:30 PM ^
I've met a few people at game watch parties that have done some trips, and they raved about them. Spoiler alert: They were all retired and well-off.
But yes, I've wondered the same thing. I'm at the point in my life where I like to take 2-week vacations each year to somewhere in the world I've never seen. Would I love to do a 4 week African Safari for only $20k? Abso-freaking-lutely. Would that PTO request be approved? Not if I want to keep my job.
January 24th, 2024 at 3:31 PM ^
The Alumni Association is as relevant to my life as the AARP is.
Although to be fair, the last time I had season tickets—2010—I got a helluva deal on them through the Alumni Association.
Of course, the reason they were available in the first place was because the athletic dept couldn't sell them all at the normal prices....
January 24th, 2024 at 4:05 PM ^
And you got free cokes too!! Or was it Pepsi? I've tried so hard to forget.
January 24th, 2024 at 4:23 PM ^
It's the other away around. They were giving away tickets with the purchase of a Coke.
January 24th, 2024 at 4:09 PM ^
I went on one once. It was a normal vacation length. One week I think. Cost was not a silly premium.
I don't recall much about the UM aspect of it. People mostly went their separate ways. We had meetups. Nothing much happened.
January 24th, 2024 at 4:26 PM ^
The list of alums I would consider going a vacation with is a very restrictive list. I'm certain some of you on this list know who you are.
The problem is the other alums who go on the trip. Imagine an MGoCampout where you are stuck on a boat.
January 24th, 2024 at 4:30 PM ^
as long as it has a main event of you in the octagon with the mental-midget-marsupial, i am 'in' on that trip.
January 24th, 2024 at 5:20 PM ^
Somebody issue MeanJoe07 some kevlar. This is going to be ugly.
January 24th, 2024 at 5:50 PM ^
"who the heck has the time and money to go on these (trips)?"
I say that to my wife all the time. She went to Duke and she gets these brochures too. The travel companies that do them, do them for many universities.
There are not many people that can do these trips, but the ones that can tend to be alums from places like Michigan and Duke.
January 25th, 2024 at 12:04 AM ^
Some of them seem exorbitant, some quite reasonable. I don't think I'd ever do one, as I like to plan my own trips, but to somewhere daunting WRT language barrier, etc, might give it a thought.
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They seem cheaper than the ones run by Hillsdale College (as if?)
January 24th, 2024 at 4:13 PM ^
I have it from a good source that they're also considering a hard cover version as well.
January 24th, 2024 at 4:32 PM ^
I got the same email. I'm not a member, and I only associate the alumni association with the spam mail they send me, but I'm strongly considering getting one of these.
Edit: Just ordered mine haha
January 24th, 2024 at 4:33 PM ^
i get it. if i was a rich city mouse like many of you it might be fun. but my kind of 'cruise' is somewhere in alaska with my buddies who live there, putting out shrimp pots in various parts of the gulf of alaska/prince william sound, etc, fly-fishing during the day and/or hunting, pulling the shrimp pots in the evening and feasting on whatever the daily take was by land or by sea, along with an adult beverage or two. get up the next day, rinse and repeat.
January 24th, 2024 at 4:51 PM ^
Now if THIS trip was offered by the Alumni Association you would probably see me sign up quick. That sounds awesome to me.