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Centennial Village #1 is done...

I lived in married housing in the 70’s. Bedroom, living room, bathroom and galley kitchen. Furniture was 1950/60’s plastic. Flooring was asbestos tile. Wouldn’t say it was Spartan, more military base accommodations. Probably housed the soldiers that manned the Radar stations that were on campus during the Cuban Missile crisis. Any way it was home and we were young, and Miami was just coming into its own. SunTan U was a blast back then. Great times, great friends, great memories.🙌🏽
 
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Groz73Cane said:
I lived in married housing in the 70’s. Bedroom, living room, bathroom and galley kitchen. Furniture was 1950/60’s plastic. Flooring was asbestos tile. Wouldn’t say it was Spartan, more military base accommodations. Probably housed the soldiers that manned the Radar stations that were on campus during the Cuban Missile crisis. Any way it was home and we were young, and Miami was just coming into its own. SunTan U was a blast back then. Great times, great friends, great memories.🙌🏽
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Those apartment buildings were "temporary" housing built right after WWII to handle the influx of GI-Bill students.

And some of them lasted into the early 2000s...

My first work-study job in 1986 was with the Housing office, I would ride on the lift truck and we would go out and replace the furniture and the stoves and the refrigerators in all the apartment buildings whenever **** broke. NOT my favorite job, but it paid better than most work-study jobs....
 
TheOriginalCane said:
Those apartment buildings were "temporary" housing built right after WWII to handle the influx of GI-Bill students.

And some of them lasted into the early 2000s...

My first work-study job in 1986 was with the Housing office, I would ride on the lift truck and we would go out and replace the furniture and the stoves and the refrigerators in all the apartment buildings whenever **** broke. NOT my favorite job, but it paid better than most work-study jobs....
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That furniture was built to last. We had a couple of crazy parties and never did break any. Only thing that was ours was a Waterbed we bought at a Head shop on US 1 and Sunset Dr. they threw in a Lava lamp for free. Good times
 
Groz73Cane said:
That furniture was built to last. We had a couple of crazy parties and never did break any. Only thing that was ours was a Waterbed we bought at a Head shop on US 1 and Sunset Dr. they threw in a Lava lamp for free. Good times
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I agree with you on the "sofas" and chairs, they were sturdy tanks that probably would have survived a drop from the third floor. The beds were not quite as solid. And lord knows, most college students could figure out a way to short out a refrigerator and/or stove by the end of September.
 
Pentagon Cane said:
Glad my son got the Pentland experience before he moved into his over-priced apartment in Gables Ponce.
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Tough love... :)

Still, it's amazing what has happened in about 20 years worth of "dorm wars" between various schools.

Completely different expectations for "student housing" these days. Wild.
 
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Strobe said:
lmaooo when i was there we used to call the dinning hall workers Shartwells because the food would make you sh*t yourself
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I feel like a football player pre-NIL. In the game at the wrong time.

I lost weight my freshman year because every time I thought about going to the dining hall I would get nauseous. I've never eaten a drier chicken breast in my life.
 
hurricaneman said:
I feel like a football player pre-NIL. In the game at the wrong time.

I lost weight my freshman year because every time I thought about going to the dining hall I would get nauseous. I've never eaten a drier chicken breast in my life.
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Funny you said that.........from Mahoney the dining hall was real close....You had to have the plastic ticket which they punched each time you dined in....weekends were a blast because they expected you to sleep in.......leave campus.......or shack out somewhere because they had two meals on weekends... not three....but the food was OK.....
The key was to befriend the staff behind the counter for the best of everything.......Walk in and they had your favs ready..refills and all you can eat no problem.....just keep hitting it until you are satisfied........that was cool........and a lot of food fights for desert too..........good memories.
 
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canesdogo said:
Funny you said that.........from Mahoney the dining hall was real close....You had to have the plastic ticket which they punched each time you dined in....weekends were a blast because they expected you to sleep in.......leave campus.......or shack out somewhere because they had two meals on weekends... not three....but the food was OK.....
The key was to befriend the staff behind the counter for the best of everything.......Walk in and they had your favs ready..refills and all you can eat no problem.....just keep hitting it until you are satisfied........that was cool........and a lot of food fights for desert too..........good memories.
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This ^. I lived in Mahoney and the ladies doing the serving loved me because I was a bodybuilder. They called me sugarfoot 😂. For special event meals you'd get a paper ticket at the front door which got you one serving of the special meal entree which was something like steak or fried shrimp. They always let me keep my ticket so I could get as many servings as I wanted. Mahoney also had a special ice cream bar on Sundays during football season. I had that ice cream on Sundays for 4 and half years before I found out we only got the ice cream bar after a home win. I was at Miami during our 58 game home winning streak and 2 National Championships.
 
Cajuncane said:
TOC just wondering if the success of the football team has meant a large increase in applications coming in ?
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While I do not have precise stats on that metric, based on my conversations with a certain poster who is on the faculty at UM, that would appear to be the case. Our acceptance rate is plummeting, which is almost always directly linked to "more applications, but still the same number of admissions slots available".

So whle we might not be able to waterboard every applicant into telling us WHY they applied to Miami, it has usually been observed that more football wins will lead to more applicants.

Short answer, yes, Miami is getting more applicants.
 
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