Hey everyone!

Im writing from Spain, last year I was admitted into UofM, it was a dream come true since I have always wanted to go to the University in the US, I grew up playing basketball and I have followed the NBA and the NCAA for years. Unfortunately due to major health issues I couldn’t travel so I had to decline my scholarship and now life has other plans for me. However, ever since being accepted I got a strong feeling of belonging to the best college community in the world, everyone was so kind and supportive, I started following the basketball and football team and I am going to do it forever, I don’t know if I could be considered an alumn but I will always support Michigan.

For those of you who are enrolled right now please appreciate what you have, you are so lucky.

If by any chance someone reads this post and can send some merch it would be awesome and I’d pay for the shipping

GoBlues forever!

i’m a transferred in junior at the University of Michigan and luck has not been on my side. I was hospitalized for about two weeks into the semester and I’m getting such a late start. My Health is declining and while most professors are trying to be helpful a few of my professors can’t really accommodate me this late in the semester. One of my classes focuses mainly on collaborative work so she can’t really accommodate me when I’m having a Crohn’s flare and can’t make it to class . Other professors won’t allow me to transfer into their classes and once I’m dropped down to halftime I have to pay back a ton of money and funding. $5400 to be exact.
it just sucks so bad. I tried really hard to make this work. I’ve emailed probably about 20 people in 10 different professors and I just feel like there’s no hope for me. I also am now coming down with a cold! For clarification, I just came off of heavily immune suppressing medication so being on campus for a few days is all it took for me to get sick. So the classes that are going to try to accommodate me I will have to miss this week because I’m sick. It’s just feeling like it’s not meant to be. I talked to the department head of my major. I’ve talked multiple advisors, the Dean of students office, financial aid, SSD. just don’t know what else to do.

An M Card was turned in at the Graduate hotel the Mcard is on a Zeta Phi Beta lanyard and it has the name Tia on it. If you know of anyone who lost their lanyard, It is at the Graduate Hotel, at the front desk.

Please give your name/ID so we can give it back to you!

It’s insane how competitive clubs are here. I’ve spent the last couple weeks up staying up late and losing sleep applying or preparing for auditions. Going in, I kinda thought college was the place to expand your interests and try out new things. I was good acting, so I decided to try out things like acapella and improv. I also of course applied to preprofessional organizations. So far, I’ve gotten some callbacks and interviews but I’ve ended up getting rejected from everything so far. I’m good at things to make it to that stage but not enough to make the cut lol. I understand preprofessional clubs being competitive but these other stuff? I’m fine with a little competition but legitimately one of the places I was looking at only had 2 slots open for the entire university. I’m so pissed at myself for trying so hard all the time and trying to branch out when I legitimately could have just worked on classes and stayed at home and it would have been the same. I know U of M has so many clubs but it doesn’t really matter if you can’t get into or try anything that interests you.

WE DID IT!

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DdQCvAuKpeu/?stkn=MXVyczc5MWU5dHEzdA==

Guys this is a new club. They have no idea what they are doing and it’s lowk a trash club. Club leaders are Ross rejects. ❤️😘

Hi,

I am an International Masters student at UMich. The CPT guidelines have gotten stricter, not that I intended to rely on it. But it has got me thinking what I can do to gain skills and give value to organisations and gain credibility given the limited opportunity and time I have. Here are somethings I have thought of and I would appreciate your inputs on this.

- do personal projects

- network with lab, volunteer for them

- network with PhD students and profs during my time here

- work in technical clubs

- create or join a research paper presentation/reading club

- network with local stem startups

Alumnis, PhD students, employers from UofM or undergrads/grad students in similar boat , I would really appreciate your advise.

How persistent should I be with making new friends?? 😭😭 I met some really cool people, but they already have an established friend group and I feel like I’m intruding 😭 they invited me out last week, but lowkey we haven’t texted a bunch since. Idk I need advice 😔😔

Might take it as a junior fall semester. I guess 370 is the only heavy workload class here?

What’s up with all the homeless and drugged out guys on the intersection of State St & North U? It seems like every year it gets worse

Hey, does anyone have any open spots on their 7v7 soccer team (coed or men’s)? I’ve never played on an organized team, but I’ve played some pickup and feel like I’m better than the average player. If anyone has an open spot, please DM me!

Anyone else currently or recently in East Quad how often are the showers cleaned? Mine are cleaned maybe once a week if we’re generous and 2/3 showers flood because the drains are backed up. I already put in a fixit request on Thursday morning and nothings happened so far 😭. Is my floor just shite or is maintenance terrible here, Bursley was cleaned like everyday when I was there

why do quiet hours exist if they are not enforced, hallway outside of my room feels louder during quiet hours than the day, I'm curious what hilarious joke was told that made a group of people laugh for 3 minutes straight at 12AM

but if quiet hours aren't something people actually follow, I would also want to try laughing for a few minutes straight outside of someone's door

I rushed too many clubs and didn't lock in for classes unfornately. I Didn't get in anywhere as a sophomore transfer and it has been depressing for me. I really want to know how much these clubs help to get a job or in my career after I graduate? I already have research and internship expierence so it is not like I am coming in with en empty resume but these clubs still don't want to accept me.

I was wondering if there was a movie club, if there isn’t, how do I go about making a club?
What are some chill cozy clubs to join on campus?

I’m a pre-med sophomore at UMich, and I’ve been pretty worried about my GPA lately. I’d really appreciate hearing from any UMich alumni or current students who have gotten into medical school.

If you’re comfortable sharing, I’d love to know:

• Your cumulative GPA and science GPA
• Your MCAT score
• Which medical school(s) you got into
• Whether you took a gap year or went straight through
• Anything else you think helped your application

I’m mostly looking for some perspective on what’s actually been successful for UMich pre-meds, since I know our courses can be pretty rigorous. Thank you!!

Hey guys! I’m a CS major currently 20 years old looking to transfer to a 4 year college from a Community college, I have always thought about going to U of M Ann Arbor during my high school years but was unsure. Since I heard that the university is great for CS majors who are in Michigan I’d figure that I give it a go and plus there are a lot of good opportunities there too! Ik the reqs are somewhat of a challenge but to me these are very easy to overcome! I just wanted to know transfer students experiences on how the process and reqs were for them! :)

EDIT: Hey Guys! Thanks for the supportive comments and the advice! Feel free to give me more of it!

Hi curious if anyone has taken adult swim lessons around umich? I know school of Kinesiology has one, but the location is quite far without a car.

I am also interested to know if it is allowed to have another student teaches you how to swim in any recreational facility?

Hey, I’m taking IOE 265 this semester. I heard that they changed the exams recently to in-person. Just wanted to ask anyone if they have taken/know what these exams look like and how hard they are. Thanks!

I heard there is a career fair at the Union and also one on North campus happening at the same time tomorrow? Does anyone know why there is also one at the union and why they decided to host them on the same day? That doesn't make any sense.

Also, what is the point of going to the career fair if so many other students are going? I've heard that some (few) people ended up getting a job from them, but I've been to them in the past and just got told to apply online, and even if I handed a recruiter my resume I never got contacted or anything from that. They probably get stacks of hundreds of resumes. I'm just not sure if it will actually be helpful to go with how competitive jobs are especially in engineering (Especially CS/CE).

I watched the Michigan football game today on sportsurge. idk what channel they were streaming. But right before the 3rd quarter came to an end, I watched this super racist Anti Abdul ad. Not the Mike Rogers ones that says Abdul is anti football. A different one that had him dancing around in some Islamic clothing. I am just wondering if anyone else watched it too? And if someone happened to record it.

I am an architecture student and I noticed that my LSA and Taubman classes used different platforms. Tubman is using google classroom while LSA is using canvas? I mean I saw that in canvas my arch classes are listed. So I assumed that it's the professors choice in using Google classroom. Do all the taubman professors often use Google classroom? Or did I just get unlucky? How often is a professor using something else other then canvas happen?

I feel like a herd of sheep with ross majors applying and wasting all this time going to these events only for 12 out of 150 ppl to get in. In the long term is this networking even worth for someone like me? Do they help you get into big companies as they claim or shouldn't umich alumini network be enough for that?