GVBlue86

September 10th, 2010 at 2:48 PM ^

Pepperdine needs to be on this list. Nestled in the hills overlooking the ocean. I watched a college baseball game there once when I was on a trip with my high school team. Awesome campus.

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Vasav

September 10th, 2010 at 3:36 PM ^

I'm in West Texas, and one of my co-workers is heading to Ohio for training in November. I used the article from this post to convince her to check out Ann Arbor - and the post convinced her to buy tickets for the Illinois game.

Plusses abound to the OP!!!

(But now I'm jealous of her)

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gofunnymango

September 10th, 2010 at 4:35 PM ^

wtf is up with peopple on this site?  i'm a michigan student, and i'm really emarassed that there's michigan fans out that that act like this?  alll of these calling me out and stuff.  c'mon.

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WolverineEagle

September 10th, 2010 at 6:37 PM ^

No love for the campus with a cock in front of it?

Ann Arbor is a great town. Washtenaw as a whole is a beautiful country--save for the garbage dump that is Ypsi. It is  the overflow from the toxic dump that is Wayne County.

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PhilipVU94

September 11th, 2010 at 12:25 PM ^

Like, six too few. :)

Seriously, Harvard, Yale, and RISD seem really out of place, but apparently they wanted to meet some quota for the Northeast.  Harvard's in a really cool city but the campus is uninteresting.  (The Statue of the Three Lies or whatever it's called is about all I remember, and I lived there several years.)   Harvard Square is great, though, although I've heard it's been "cleaned up" so it's probably ruined now.

RISD's a neat school, not an interesting campus.  Yale?  I like the buildings, but I like the same buildings more at Duke.

But yeah, I've liked Ann Arbor the 3.5 weeks I've been here.  Seems to have a nice town/gown situation with the location of Central Campus.  The buildings are kind of a weird pastiche; why is everything from the Law School south gothic?

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Happyshooter

September 11th, 2010 at 2:16 PM ^

Ypsi is a decent campus, at least EMU main. Business campus is a little iffy. I wouldn't be happy there at night. If EMU was anywhere but 7 miles from Michigan it would be a draw and something to be proud of.

Michigan is great any way you look at it. North Campus is a very nice example of a centralized 'set off campus' that is fun to walk. I was lucky enough to live in Northwood 5 for three years, great living and great bus service to the whole campus 24/7, while living in a very nice townhouses in the woods for very cheap.

Central campus is just a gem, from the Diag to the law school to the medical campus and hospital.  I did the walking tour years ago, and found cool stuff like the naval tank. The University staff is always proud of the school and usually will show you around. One great memory was walking through the tunnels from the law school over to Diag, just because I asked and the guy was headed that way.

Other schools are good, too. Michigan State has a very pretty campus, a lovely one in the fall. OSU is nearly as nice of a 'big' city campus as Michigan. University of Chicago looks as nice as Michigan, only set in a sea of a terrible third world crime ghetto.

However, of the schools I have seen Michigan has clearly the nicest campi.

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