GRIDLOCK AND TAILGATE

Introduction
Ann Arbor, in my opinion, is a horrible town to drive through. People just can’t drive anywhere. There’s no parking as it. Especially on game day, the streets turn into sidewalks. Everyone’s walking everywhere. If you’re going to drive to a game, you’ve gotta leave like 5 hours earlier. People make a fortune using their lawns as parking spots or just like grilling or selling t-shirts on the sidewalk. People will pay pretty much anything.

Campus Life and Social Life
At Michigan you go through every single sorority house through like recruitment parties. I think there’s like 16 of them. And it’s a long process and you go visit each one, then you narrow it down each time, which ones you like, which ones you don’t. At the same time you’re doing that the houses are also narrowing you down. So it’s kind of like you pick each other process. The majority of the time you end up getting the house that you wanted and they also wanted you so it usually works out. Advertisement
Academics
For English classes the majority of mine are pretty much 20-25 students per class. So they’re not huge lectures, like more generalized courses some of them are. The majority you have a pretty close relationship with your teacher. It’s like a one on one close knit writing style. Work on your writing, work on your reading. It’s hopefully more personal in my opinion than other majors would be.

Student Body
There’s tons of events in the beginning of the year for freshman too. There’s welcome week. Which is basically like a whole week devoted to Freshman. There are activities every night, concerts and stuff, things going on at the Diag, Palmer field sporting events. All sorts of stuff. Its not really a big issue to get involved once you get here, there’s always stuff going on.

In Closing...
I ended up rushing a sorority, which I had no intention of doing at all, but every single girl on my hall was doing it, and I just figured I’d give it a try. By doing that I meet tons of people and it makes the campus a lot smaller and gives you sort of a niche to find yourself in.