came across this and thought I would share in order to make some alums cry, laugh, and think about the past...enjoy, folks
http://www.buzzfeed.com/emilyorley/the-35-ways-you-know-youre-a-michigan...
so much for that
OT: A trip down memory lane for former UM students
March 7th, 2013 at 3:19 PM
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OT: A trip down memory lane for former UM students
March 7th, 2013 at 3:25 PM | 
Wait
Wait
March 7th, 2013 at 3:40 PM |
This
This
This is a pretty good list coming from buzzfeed. It also reminded me I need to go to Blimpie's a few more times before they move/close down in the summer.
March 7th, 2013 at 3:44 PM |
Now why'd they have to go and show that pic
Now why'd they have to go and show that pic
of the inside of the grad library stacks? I'm still trying to forget about the long afternoons and evenings toiling in there!
Always amazing to see how much State St. looks the same - even since the later 70's. The businesses have changed, but the street still has the exact same look. After all these years, even the Rocky Horror picture show is still showing. I was never into that and resisted my fraternity brothers trying to drag me down there.
"You owe it to every man, woman, and child in the State of Michigan to beat the Buckeyes and silence their fans! Now go out there and make it happen!"
- Bo Schembechler (Result: U-M 22 OSU 0)
March 7th, 2013 at 3:44 PM |
As someone who transferred
As someone who transferred
As someone who transferred away from Michigan before this year, I miss everything about this
March 7th, 2013 at 3:47 PM |
Never actually went to
Never actually went to
Never actually went to Zingermans. Also don't know about number 13. Never been to the "Stacks", not totally sure what that is either lol
Guess I was not a true Michigan Wolverine..
March 7th, 2013 at 3:56 PM |
Stacks make up the upper
Stacks make up the upper
Stacks make up the upper floors of the Grad library and have little, isolated carrels or study booths. One day a bookshelf will fall over on my carrel door and I'll probably die of starvation.
March 7th, 2013 at 4:15 PM |
I have fond memories of the stacks...
I have fond memories of the stacks...
...but I don't know anyone that went there to actually study (when I wanted to study I went to B-School or law school). It was where you went when you were on campus for a quickie with your girlfriend or female companion...if there is a bag hanging over the window or paper taped over window...it wasn't because someone was trying to focus on their studies!
That is a pretty good list!
March 7th, 2013 at 4:59 PM |
Loved the stacks. I've
Loved the stacks. I've
Loved the stacks. I've gotten lost in there more than once, i'm not ashamed to admit. Ever wandered around and ended up in the Asian reference section? I couldn't find it now if you paid me $1000.
For my privacy, my new username is "non-Oriental non-Andrew"
March 7th, 2013 at 4:09 PM |
#13 is the "Chipati" from
#13 is the "Chipati" from
#13 is the "Chipati" from Pizza House. I loved Pizza House's yellow cheese on the pizza itself but was never a huge Chipati fan, the veggies interfered with my all carb, dairy, meat, and beer diet when I was in school.
The swag is back.
March 7th, 2013 at 4:16 PM |
Ah yes I have heard of that
Ah yes I have heard of that
Ah yes I have heard of that before. I was on the same diet, which probably explains why I never tried the "Chipati".
March 7th, 2013 at 4:56 PM |
I was hoping it was something from the Jerusalem
I was hoping it was something from the Jerusalem
Garden. Falafels almost as good as the ones at L'As du Falafel in Paris.
March 7th, 2013 at 3:47 PM |
double post
double post
double post
March 7th, 2013 at 3:52 PM |
I lived in Ann Arbor for 12
I lived in Ann Arbor for 12
I lived in Ann Arbor for 12 years and attended Eastern. I love Michigan and Michigan was the reason I moved there from Houston by myself without knowing anyone. I lived with Michigan students and did almost everything on the list. I consider myself a Wolverine and no one can tell me any different. Those were the best times of my life and I would do it again. GO BLUE TILL I DIE!
'Try growing up in Texas a Michigan WOLVERINE'.
March 7th, 2013 at 10:39 PM |
We're glad to have you.
We're glad to have you.
We're glad to have you.
M'Dog
March 7th, 2013 at 4:03 PM |
Oh Dominick's, how I miss you
Oh Dominick's, how I miss you
Oh Dominick's, how I miss you so. Nothing quite captures the essence of a Michigan spring quite like wrapping up your last finaland spending twelve hours sipping sangria amongst your closest friends in the fresh air after months of fighting through winter and classes. I'm seriously about to cry I miss that so much.
The swag is back.
March 7th, 2013 at 4:03 PM |
Pretty Good List...
Pretty Good List...
That's a pretty good list, and I have had the fortune of experiencing this for most of my life having gone to Michigan as well as having been raised in the Ann Arbor area.
It does make a little sad to see the photo of Blimpy Burger, knowing that it is in its final months of existence of at that esteemed location. I should go there one last time before the summer when the University officially takes over the property. If nothing else, my own handiwork is at that intersection - the two steel utility poles near Blimpy's were my design.
I can also say that I have memories of typing many papers in the Fish Bowl and then consuming a fishbowl or two in order to promptly forget what I wrote. Obviously, it has not worked entirely.
"Funny isn't it, how naughty dentists always make that one fatal mistake."
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March 7th, 2013 at 4:06 PM |
How could one possibly have
How could one possibly have
How could one possibly have "great" memories from the Stacks? It's miserable in there..
March 7th, 2013 at 4:14 PM |
I look back fondly at my
I look back fondly at my
I look back fondly at my hours spent in the stacks. It wasn't the most fun at the time, but in retrospect, there is joy knowing that I was probably in one of the last classes of students (BA -History, 2000) that had to do research the old fashioned way.
The swag is back.
March 7th, 2013 at 5:18 PM |
Lots of people have great memories of the stacks...
Lots of people have great memories of the stacks...
...see post above!
March 7th, 2013 at 6:10 PM |
I had sex
I had sex
I had sex in the stacks last semester senior year as one of those bucket list things. So that's a good memory.
That and meeting my friend to grab lunch are my only two experiences in the stacks.
Intensity is a lot of guys that run fast.
March 7th, 2013 at 4:17 PM |
I've been dying to take my
I've been dying to take my
I've been dying to take my son to Angelos for breakfast. Perhaps this Sunday when we bring him back.
Every time I see the State St theater marquee, it stirs up a lot of memories.....and I've never set foot in there.
The stacks scared me. I maintain that it's the perfect place for a murder. Hide someone up in the stacks and they're likely to never be found.
I studied at the Law Library because it made me feel smarter. The feeling didn't last.
Man I drank a lot at Ricks. Holy smokes!
Ahhhhhhhhh yes. The first warm, sunny Spring day on the Diag.
Personal computers were just becoming mainstream when I was freshman. I think there was one guy on my floor (Taylor House - South Quad) who had an Apple IIe. By the time I was a senior, the Fish Bowl was filled with school owned computers that we could all use. It was glorious. I felt even more smarter.
Bo.
"the Spirit of Michigan...is based on a deathless loyalty to Michigan and all her ways....and a conviction that nowhere is there a better university, in any way, than this Michigan of ours" - Fielding Yost
March 7th, 2013 at 4:19 PM |
Cute, but not at all
Cute, but not at all
Cute, but not at all surprising, that the second comment was a bitter Sparty girl.
March 7th, 2013 at 4:21 PM |
It wasn't the law students
It wasn't the law students
It wasn't the law students staring you down for making noise in the reading room...we were all downstairs in the actual law library where it was even quieter
Wiggum: Do they have Krusty partially gelatinated non-dairy gum-based beverages?
Lou: Mm-hm. They call 'em, "shakes."
Eddie: Huh, shakes. You don't know what you're gettin'.
March 7th, 2013 at 4:25 PM |
Fishbowl
Fishbowl
Perhaps I am mistaken, but I always thought the "Fishbowl" referred to the glassed-in area where Mason Hall connects to Angell Hall, which you can view from the Diag--not the computer lab.
Also, I have to disagree with the Rick's slide. I stopped going there altogether once I didn't have to use my fake ID anymore.
"You will suffer humiliation when the team from my area defeats the team from your area." -- The Onion
March 7th, 2013 at 4:34 PM |
Nope - it's always been the
Nope - it's always been the
Nope - it's always been the computer lab. As a former employee of the Fish (student computer lab assistant) I can tell you that.
Best job on campus, btw.
ATTN NBA Dads and Siblings: Have brothers / sons on the hoops come-up?
Michigan = NBA Family U
March 7th, 2013 at 4:41 PM |
Fishbowl
Fishbowl
Huh. Well, thanks for clearing it up.
I actually used to be a writing tutor for the English Composition Board. I don't know if it's still there, but we had a walk-in clinic adjacent to that computer lab, and I worked there for two years. It paid well, but was only the second-best job I had at UM. The first-best was when I refereed IM flag football games (which didn't pay squat, but was super fun).
"You will suffer humiliation when the team from my area defeats the team from your area." -- The Onion
March 7th, 2013 at 5:55 PM |
Fishbowl
Fishbowl
As a student bpc (before personal computers), he is correct. Glassed in area was the Fishbowl!
March 7th, 2013 at 6:32 PM |
The glassed-in area was still
The glassed-in area was still
The glassed-in area was still known as the "Fishbowl" in the late '90s/'00s. I'm not sure when the name came to apply to the computing site but it must have been sometime since then.
March 7th, 2013 at 7:17 PM |
"Fishbowl"
"Fishbowl"
was in use to refer to the glassed-in intersection of Angell/Mason/Haven halls back in the mid-seventies, before the computing center moved from NUBS to North Campus.
Taking it one week at a time
March 7th, 2013 at 5:01 PM |
You're not alone
You're not alone
They would always have clubs and events and stuff "at the fishbowl" and set up where you describe.
For my privacy, my new username is "non-Oriental non-Andrew"
March 7th, 2013 at 5:40 PM |
Fishbowl
Fishbowl
The Fishbowl connecting Angell and Mason Halls was there in the 60's--long before any computer lab. "Meet you at the Fishbowl" was often heard on central campus.
“When your team is winning, be ready to be tough, because winning can make you soft. On the other hand, when your team is losing, stick by them. Keep believing”
--Bo Schembechler
March 7th, 2013 at 8:14 PM |
Mind blown...i learned
Mind blown...i learned
Mind blown...i learned something today...
ATTN NBA Dads and Siblings: Have brothers / sons on the hoops come-up?
Michigan = NBA Family U
March 7th, 2013 at 6:18 PM |
I always thought it was the
I always thought it was the
I always thought it was the view from the Diag that lent the term "fishbowl" to the area between Mason/Angell. But what exactly do I know? As my name suggests, I was rarely coherent when I took that particular walk during those particular years.
March 7th, 2013 at 4:33 PM |
The nostalgia is
The nostalgia is
The nostalgia is overflowing.
I'll do my damndest to get into Ross for an MBA, just so I can go back.
ATTN NBA Dads and Siblings: Have brothers / sons on the hoops come-up?
Michigan = NBA Family U
March 7th, 2013 at 4:49 PM |
Mine's exactly the same
Mine's exactly the same
except replace all the bars with a picture of the Media Union
replace all the libraries with a picture of the Media Union
and replace all the restaurants with a bowl of Ramen noodles or a microwaved hot dog
and I just laugh at 28 (never took a blue book in 5.5 years)
March 7th, 2013 at 5:54 PM |
Blue books.
Blue books.
In seven years as student (including grad school), I never had a blue book exam either.
I still avoid stepping on the diag M because I was told at orientation that the curse was you'd fail your first blue book if you stepped on the M.
March 7th, 2013 at 6:37 PM |
You guys missed out. I loved
You guys missed out. I loved
You guys missed out. I loved blue books - they were by far my favorite type of test. You could just write and write and write on a topic and it didn't have to be super-coherent, but as long as some part of what you wrote satisfied what the instructor was looking for, you'd get a good grade.
March 7th, 2013 at 6:49 PM |
Seconded
Seconded
There should be a corrollary version to this for Engineering students. The many, many sleepless nights in the windowless EECS computer labs with VLSI or EECS 311 lab projects overrides most of the stuff on this list. 48 hour consecutive all-nighters were a staple my junior year of college.
March 7th, 2013 at 10:51 PM |
Amen. I still remember
Amen. I still remember
Amen. I still remember hallucinating in the Media Union while working at a computer after two and a half days without sleep. Good times.
March 7th, 2013 at 11:26 PM |
You know you've hit rock bottom
You know you've hit rock bottom
when you pull an all-nighter on a Friday because you're just that fucked the next week.
Grad school numerical methods class in chemical engineering -- we had to write Fortran programs, but I hadn't done a lick of Fortran since freshman year's computing class. So I basically had to relearn a semester of Fortran in a week, while having two midterms, and of course, homework in every class (profs can't let a week go by without homework, even with midterms and projects due).
March 7th, 2013 at 4:49 PM |
What's amazing is I graduated
What's amazing is I graduated
What's amazing is I graduated in 1981 and virtually ALL of the pictures stirred up the same feelings of nostalgia for me. Not much has changed in 32 years believe it or not......
March 7th, 2013 at 4:59 PM |
Matt Vogrich once slapped me
Matt Vogrich once slapped me
Matt Vogrich once slapped me in the face at Rick's.
March 7th, 2013 at 5:11 PM |
HAHAHA I want to hear this
HAHAHA I want to hear this
HAHAHA I want to hear this story, please elaborate.
'Try growing up in Texas a Michigan WOLVERINE'.
March 7th, 2013 at 6:30 PM |
Did you ask him
Did you ask him
Why he changed his number to 11?
March 7th, 2013 at 5:01 PM |
Anyone remember NUBS?
Anyone remember NUBS?
Many memories writing Fortran programs using cards in that old building. Also CRISPing to register for classes. Drakes and Steve Lunch were iconic diners as well.
"I don’t wanna live in Rainbow Land, and you can’t make me!"
March 7th, 2013 at 5:10 PM |
oh man, completely forgot
oh man, completely forgot
oh man, completely forgot about CRISP!!
They shut down NUBS toward the end of my time at Michigan. Before that, they first outlawed gaming at NUBS because a fight broke out once (maybe over Doom II, or Warcraft, or Starcraft - I forget). Everyone migrated up to the Media Union (or whatever it's called now).
And what about the EECS computer lab? Had to learn UNIX so I could use those things. I thought those laser mice with the reflective mouse pads were the coolest, most high tech things at the time (hey, it was 1994).
Also, the UGLi once did live up to its moniker, before the renovation. I remember coming back to campus one fall and thinking, "What the h*** happened to the UGLi? It looks so nice!"
I was in Glee Club, so yeah, I've been to a concert or two.
First time seeing Rocky Horror was when I was still in high school, on campus for 3 weeks or so for summer debate camp (yeah, that's right, I admit it).
I can't believe they showed the Arb as a place to smoke weed rather than a place to go sledding with pilfered cafeteria trays.
For my privacy, my new username is "non-Oriental non-Andrew"
March 7th, 2013 at 5:17 PM |
Some of my most fondest
Some of my most fondest
Some of my most fondest memories was going to the Arb to sled. Of course, I had never seen snow being from Texas. It was really fun until those damn people that owned the housing around the Arb started calling the fuzz. They might have had good reason being it was about 1or 2 in the morning. I could never really fit on one of those trays tho. I did try it but I ended up face planting myself many times. I felt nothing. AHHH great nostalgic memories.
'Try growing up in Texas a Michigan WOLVERINE'.
March 7th, 2013 at 5:43 PM |
yes to traying in the Arb
yes to traying in the Arb
Also story on CRISP name...Its creators first called it ‘Computer Registration in Spite of Problems,’ but the Data Systems Center people didn’t like that name. So they kept CRISP and thought up new words for the letters to represent. (Exactly the same thing happened just a few years after when some hobbyists developed what was called QDOS for ‘quick and dirty operating system.’ Microsoft stripped off the Q and improved the underlying words to ‘disk operating system’ and so launched one of the greatest corporate successes of all time.)... anyway standing in long CRISP lines for popular LSA classes was a total drag.
NUBS was definitely a nerdy place. I had a box of IBM punch card so I was one of them before becoming cool in B-School,lol...
"I don’t wanna live in Rainbow Land, and you can’t make me!"
March 7th, 2013 at 10:39 PM |
C.R.I.S.P.
C.R.I.S.P.
Computer Registration Involving Student Participation; not unlike the Bataan Death March IIRC.
Traying!
The true "Blue" UGLI; a name well-deserved.
Whatever happened to Leftkofski's Deli? Their pastrami and swiss with coleslaw on rye was amazing.
And does anyone else remember Geppetto's Pizza (on Main) and their spicy pizza sauce? Incredible.\
I miss A2.
Edit: I forgot Shaky Jake and Stoney Burke.
L.S.A. '88
March 7th, 2013 at 5:14 PM |
I remember....
I remember....
sitting in the basement hallway at Angell waiting to CRISP and seeing Juwan Howard (as well as other athletes) walk to the front of the line to get their classes in before the general student population.
All right Lemmings. Bring the heat.
Wait, why is Buzzfeed making Michigan lists? Not that I'm complaining...but still why?
Also the basketball team glows in #6.
Intensity is a lot of guys that run fast.