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brock said:
Wow......
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Always funny to read the reactions of the non-UM-alums.

"New facilities" - let's be careful, or we'll be back in the days of Al Golden and Blake James, trying to claim credit for the Joe Robbie Stadium renovations.

Look, these new dorms are LONG overdue and are available to the general UM undergraduate student body. Yes, I imagine most of the freshmen and sophomores on the football team will live there too.

This is the first time we have had new housing on the main portion of the campus since the 1970s. Yes, I know about the stuff behind fraternity row, and maybe things have changed, but that stuff was originally intended for upperclassmen/grads. When you are an undergrad, it is good to be as near your academic buildings, the Student Union, and the athletic fields as possible. I preferred to sleep for as long as possible before getting up and walking to class.

The non-UM-alums are unaware that the Dean of our School of Architecture was, until recently, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk of Arquitectonica. If you don't know what that means, go back and watch the opening credits of Miami Vice.

Yeah, our new dorms are going to be motherfvck!ng awesome. They dammn-well better be, given all of the above. Yes, it is time to empty our bowels on all of the other schools in the state of Florida, and throughout the Southeast. Nobody in the southeast does high-end like Miami, and we should be proud of that.

For now, as it relates to football, I think that the IPF is much more important. But I think the recruits are going to like living in the new dorms for a year or two before they eventually start sharing houses or apartments together off-campus.

But I must say, while the new dorms will be sweet, I'd still like to have my old 2nd floor Eaton room back, the one that overlooks the side entrance and Lake Osceola (in the lower left of the picture).
 
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Meh. Walsh Tower was nice in its own right. I'm still battling MRSA from the showers there but I digress.
 
Love the individual sized football/soccer fields on top of the buildings.
 
As the parent of two UM students - one an alum twice (undergrad and grad) and a current Sophomore - these dorms are WAY OVERDUE! My kids have lived in both Freshmen dorms (Hecht and Stanford) and my daughter lived in Mahoney for a year. After her experience with chronic allergies, etc from the horrible ventilation and air conditioning in Mahoney, my son got us to let him live off campus this year. This is just part of the housing upgrade project - eventually both Hecht and Stanford are scheduled to be razed and replaced. That's kind of sad - to me they are iconic to the landscape of UM- but they desperately need to be updated. Mahoney-Pearson will also get an upgrade. Luxurious living for the kids coming in next year and beyond!
 
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dfagundo said:
I'm about to incur $200K of student loans just to go back to school and live in those dorms.

Overseeing Lake Osceola in a fresh *** apartment, **** kids get everything these days.
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My son may be going there as well it is down to 1 other school.......we just came back from a tour of campus last week it was absolutely incredible what they are doing there..........New IPF is phenomenal the other upgrades are just as nice........
 
Brooklyndee said:
A trailor with a wallmart fan ***** on mahoney pierson... told yall when construction finishes recruiting is really gonna take off.
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LMAO believe me I know b. I stayed their lots of times when I was in college. In BK now though a room like that would cost you 4k a month.
 
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