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Never realized the man-made lake on campus was named after a Seminole. #WTF?!?!??
 
This is going to be so ******* nice. This is going to make the entire campus look so much better than it already does, and thats tough to do seeing as how its already so nice. I love that we're investing so much with renovating the lake side buildings first. Got the student center, now this new housing project, followed by the Freshman dorms in a few years. Man within like 6 years the middle of our campus is going to be so ******* beautiful.

....like always all the good **** comes soon after you leave though lol. Man I'd have loved to stay in these dorms rather than ******* MP which is a ****hole. But with the Frosh dorms being redone soon and the UV, we'll have some of the best dorms in the country.

Now all I want is to ******* improve the engineering building and Dooley Memorial (where a ****ton of most students classes are). They gave the Cox Science building a face lift, and the Physics building is still pretty new. They just added the UHealth Building, and the Law school looks solid. Engineering desperately needs to be upgraded.
 
vivijane said:
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........
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The campus has completely changed in the past 5 years. My daughter started in Fall of 2012 - at that time, the Shalala student center didn't exist and most of that side of Lake osceola was under construction. Improvements to the music school, theater etc. The Rat was in a temporary state, moving from what is now Lime to it's current location. The kids literally walked through construction zones to go around that side of a lake. By Fall of 2013 it was all done and beautiful and it's hard to even remember when it wasn't there. Work has also been done on a number of the classroom buildings and most recently, the new UHealth building was constructed on what used to be an empty space next to the Wellness Center and the Bridge of Dreams constructed across the lake at the foot of the pool. I know Donna Shalala wasn't a friend to athletics but she sure got some big $$ raised for projects and elevated the academic reputation of the school, which in turn brings in other kinds of donors. President Frenck, the current president, is the consumate fundraiser and he gets the connection between successful athletics and the continued growth of the rest of the university. And what sport brings spotlight to any university on a national field? FOOTBALL For what it's worth, CMR is exactly the kind of coach this administration can support - there are no worries on their part he will compromise the integrity of the university etc to achieve athletic goals. CMR's success on the football field this year can be directly correlated to the more than 40,000 applications the university received for a class of like 2000 students. More football success = more exposure = bigger opportunities for fundraising and donations for ALL programs at the U.
 
Glad to see we are keeping up. I was in Tally last month for a few weeks and I kept mentioning to my homie about how they are really trying to build this ****** town up. They are trying so hard that its starting to get to clustered and croweded.
 
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TheOriginalCane said:
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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I lived on the top floor of Eaton. The corner closest to the lake. It was a view I never wanted to leave.
 
My first night in Mahoney was an absolute horror show. First night in the dorm was also the first time I ever saw a palmetto bug, and it freaked The Legend out to the point where I was curled up in a ball on the plastic mattress UM provided calling moms.

Those things looked like dinosaurs to me, and they were coming at your dude from every crack and crevice in the room. I thought one of those fcking palmettos was gonna grab the phone from me and fck me up good.
 
The Franchise said:
My first night in Mahoney was an absolute horror show. First night in the dorm was also the first time I ever saw a palmetto bug, and it freaked The Legend out to the point where I was curled up in a ball on the plastic mattress UM provided calling moms.

Those things looked like dinosaurs to me, and they were coming at your dude from every crack and crevice in the room. I thought one of those fcking palmettos was gonna grab the phone from me and fck me up good.
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Only time I saw one of those ****ers was in the frosh dorms....and it was at the worst time too because I just got in the (community style, but separated) shower. I got outta there with a quickness
 
TheOriginalCane said:
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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LOL - I lived on Eaton 4th floor sophomore year, a few doors down from my now ex-wife who did her first couple years in the School of Architecture. When did you live there?
 
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The Franchise said:
My first night in Mahoney was an absolute horror show. First night in the dorm was also the first time I ever saw a palmetto bug, and it freaked The Legend out to the point where I was curled up in a ball on the plastic mattress UM provided calling moms.

Those things looked like dinosaurs to me, and they were coming at your dude from every crack and crevice in the room. I thought one of those fcking palmettos was gonna grab the phone from me and fck me up good.
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My daughter and her roommate had those little lizards dropping down from the AC vents onto their beds. That was in Mahoney 7th foor. Yes, the infamous 7th floor and there were football guys on it that year, too. And lots of lizards...
 
TheOriginalCane said:
1986-1989.

Room 206.

305-284-2599.
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I was there for Hurricane Andrew, 1992-1993. If I'm not mistaken, my window looked out at the old School of Architecture and we could see who was in there late working.

I remember choosing Eaton because a chick I was into lived there Freshman year. She was one of the girls to get hypnotized at the annual Sigma Chi rush party to have an ****** whenever the fat hypnotist touched her nose.
 
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