University of Michigan - The Michiganensian Yearbook

“or eight months of the year, Ann Arbor was home to 40,025 undergraduate and graduate students. Though many stayed for spring and summer terms, enjoying a more relaxed atmosphere, campus came alive in the fall. With the start of Welcome Week, freshmen navigated campus in large groups finding their classes and going to their first college parties, while the upper classmen reunited with their friends and bar hopped on South University and Main Street. Campus extended beyond the borders of the Diag and reached through the entire town of Ann Arbor. Students danced at concerts not only in Hill Auditorium, but also at the Blind Pig, and studied in the Grad and Starbucks alike. In addition to classes and the academic resources the University had to offer, including 1 9 libraries, holding seven million volumes, Ann Arbor offered students a wide variety of enriching activities. The University ' s sporting events gave students the chance to come together to support their school and let loose from the pressures of class. Students went apple picking at local orchards in the fall, had snowball fights in the Diag in the winter, and walked through the Arb in the spring. No matter what time of year, or what the weather, there was never a shortage of events taking place on campus. Charity fashion shows, concerts, and musicals always drew large crowds as did students and Ann Arbor locals speaking on the Diag. The Union was a center for Michigan life, always busy with people doing a million different activities from marketing for their organizations, to meeting friends for lunch. An electric charge ran through every inch of campus and always sparked a buzz among Michigan students who truly knew how to take advantage of the best years of their lives. : ”