UWM...wow

[adamb100]

UWM has a bowling alley down stairs in the Union, they got a little table tennis room and an arcade with pool tables as well.

 

I attended classes my first time today, the damn buses made me late >.< Also paid $100 for a book for class http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/frown.gif

Afterwards I had to walk all around the campus to find Oakland Ave.

[kgbaseball]

Wait, you went to class for the first time today? It's the 3rd week of classes!

 

Where do you live and what buses are you taking?

[adamb100]

I live on the other side of town in West Allis. I take the 53 east to KK and take the KK/Oakland Bus to kenwood, 1 block from UWM.

[Brewbadger]

Landmark Lanes on Farwell is another bowling alley down on the east side there...it's an ok place.

Yeah...I'm wondering why you started classes today too...I know UWM started the semester on September 4th http://static.yuku.com//domainskins/bypass/img/smileys/smile.gif

Either way, UW-Madison is way better http://static.yuku.com//domainskins/bypass/img/smileys/grin.gif...I'm from Greenfield and if I would have went to UWM, it would have been like high school all over again...all my friends that go there still commute and live at home with their parents...and they're 20! http://static.yuku.com//domainskins/bypass/img/smileys/ohwell.gif...90% of the people from my class who went to college ended up at UWM...I like the freedom away from the family, and Madison's a close enough drive that if I need to get home, I can do it quickly...the girlfriend lives in Milwaukee which sucks, but I guess I see her enough...I do admit I miss Brewers games though, and the lake...Milwaukee's a fun place though...definitely lots to do.

As for the advice on going out or not, I'd encourage you to get out there as much as you can...just meet as many people as possible...I went out thurs, fri, sat and an occasional weeknight during my freshman year here at madison last year and I still ended up with a 3.1 GPA with relatively no studying...perhaps I just got lucky, but I think if you balance your time well and try to procrastinate the least as possible, you'll do fine...WoW might be a good habit to drop though...I'm kinda glad I never got into the whole video/computer game thing, or else my grades might have suffered a bit...just be glad you're comumuting for now...my rent at school here is almost 500 bucks a month!...i have to work 20-25 hours a week just to make rent and a few small groceries...balancing that much work with a harder school schedule...not that much fun.

Just watch out for Milwaukee cops...they're sticklers! They like to give out lots of underage drinking tickets/bust parties etc....2 of those for me in the past year in Milwaukee...that's not much fun either! Just be smart about things I guess??? Have fun!

[adamb100]

Yeah the problem is I'm not really a social butterfly(WoW has alot to do with that). I only know 1 other person attending UWM and he is staying in a dorm. I'm just gonna attend my classes, catch up on my 2 weeks of absence and make my classes feel like Home for the first week or 2.

[sheetswannabe]

Wow, you have short classes. I go to Gateway and have 3 hour and 2 hour classes. I also have off Fridays:)

[thablingster]

UWM has a bowling alley down stairs in the Union, they got a little table tennis room and an arcade with pool tables as well.

 

I attended classes my first time today, the damn buses made me late >.< Also paid $100 for a book for class http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/frown.gif

Afterwards I had to walk all around the campus to find Oakland Ave.

Yeah, those textbook prices will hurt your wallet, and at this point in the semester unless you're buying online you're pretty much stuck buying new books.

 

Always catch the bus before the one that would get you to campus just on time, you never know when the bus will do something stupid or be really full and make you late.

[MoneyballMan]

I went to UWM and got my degree after 7 1/2 years. I respectfully disagree with jaybird. Party it up and have as much fun as you can! You're always going to have to work the rest of your life, so enjoy your college years while they exist! An underage drinking ticket is not the worst thing in the world. I graduated with a 2.67 GPA and I got a great, professional, and respected job and I also completed my masters degree just now. I've never noticed GPA to mean that much. In fact, many friends and myself who are in various job sectors such as education, engineering, computer technology, and nursing have never been questioned about our GPAs. The paper (diploma) is all that matters, GPA means very little. I have a professional job and so do many of my friends in the fields I listed and we were never asked for GPAs, just proof of degrees. The people that I knew that were always studying and rarely doing things always seemed to be miserable. They never even benefited as far as better jobs as well.

My sincere advice is party it up, do what you need to do to get by, and have fun. These days will be the best of your life.

I agree. I drank like a fish at UW-Whitewater my freshman and sophomore years and only had about 2.8-3.2 GPA. Then the real classes started (finance) and I averaged 3.9 my last two years (even continuing to drink like a fish). On to graduate school and finished with MBA in 2 1/2 years (total 6 1/2 for BBA/MBA) and partying/drinking was all part of the experience. Best time of my life (although it has probably been a few more years ago than most of you !!). Enjoy and just remember... even though they're drilling you with liberalism now, everyone becomes a conservative when they grow up.

[D Miles Domination]

Whitewater has a new bowling ally and Burger King going in, they were here, but there remodeling them now, no apple store, but you won't get mugged on the way home from class. My girlfriend goes there, and she gets emails all the time about the muggings and robbing around campus. screw that, not to mention that the campus sucks, and there is no where to park. Unless your going for architecture or film you can get the hell out of there. I was going to run track there until I visited that hell hole. The only thing it had going for it was Bruce Pearl, and now he is orange

[bobbledude25]

Just graduated from UWM in May. Parking sucks. Discussions suck...avoid at all costs. Many teachers speak very poor english if you want to learn anything you must avoid them. took 14 weeks to get my diploma and its smaller then most diplomas. Glad I'm a gone-r

[PlayerHader]

I went to UWM and got my degree after 7 1/2 years. I respectfully disagree with jaybird. Party it up and have as much fun as you can! You're always going to have to work the rest of your life, so enjoy your college years while they exist! An underage drinking ticket is not the worst thing in the world. I graduated with a 2.67 GPA and I got a great, professional, and respected job and I also completed my masters degree just now. I've never noticed GPA to mean that much. In fact, many friends and myself who are in various job sectors such as education, engineering, computer technology, and nursing have never been questioned about our GPAs. The paper (diploma) is all that matters, GPA means very little. I have a professional job and so do many of my friends in the fields I listed and we were never asked for GPAs, just proof of degrees. The people that I knew that were always studying and rarely doing things always seemed to be miserable. They never even benefited as far as better jobs as well.

My sincere advice is party it up, do what you need to do to get by, and have fun. These days will be the best of your life.

I agree. I drank like a fish at UW-Whitewater my freshman and sophomore years and only had about 2.8-3.2 GPA. Then the real classes started (finance) and I averaged 3.9 my last two years (even continuing to drink like a fish). On to graduate school and finished with MBA in 2 1/2 years (total 6 1/2 for BBA/MBA) and partying/drinking was all part of the experience. Best time of my life (although it has probably been a few more years ago than most of you !!). Enjoy and just remember... even though they're drilling you with liberalism now, everyone becomes a conservative when they grow up.

Moneyballman...That last comment is pretty inappropriate. I'm not going to say I've had equal numbers of conservative instructors as liberal ones, but I've run into more than a couple conservative instructors in Madison and SP that let their feelings known. Beyond that, your last statement is totally false and misleading. Demeaning even.

 

[DougJones43]

I think MoneyballMan made that remark in good humor. But while on the subject, I've never quite understood why so many professors feel the need to make their political beliefs known. I guess I understand if it's a Political Science course. However, why English, Business, Physics, Art, and/or "Intro to Badminton" instructors feel everybody needs to be aware of their political stances is beyond me.

[PlayerHader]

I agree with you on that. I think it is part of the "charm" of the college atmosphere, though. Everyone believes in their ability to influence. I actually was a part of a study of the effect of political talk in the college classroom while at UW-Madison. I was a "guinea pig" so I don't know what conclusions they came to, but it was something fun I remember doing.

 

The strangest teacher I ever had when it came to talking politics was John Sharpless, my history professor in Madison. He was a big Bush basher. Not because he was a crazy liberal, but because he was SUPER conservative (by his own admission). Ran for office in Madison as a Libertarian I believe. Crazy man...liked to talk about drinking a lot...fun class.

[adamb100]

Tip: Dont take Geography of Race in the U.S, that class is the most boring uninteresting class in the world. State Politics though, Dr. Bohte best professor ever.

[chadomac]

Yeah the problem is I'm not really a social butterfly(WoW has alot to do with that). I only know 1 other person attending UWM and he is staying in a dorm. I'm just gonna attend my classes, catch up on my 2 weeks of absence and make my classes feel like Home for the first week or 2.

I would befriend the guy that lives in the dorm and start hanging out there on thur/fri/saturday nights. The dorms is where all the action happens and how you're going to hear about the parties. I agree with the people that said party it up. Obviously you need to do what you have to do to get by, but GPAs do not matter. I don't remember my cumulative GPA, but I know it wasn't good. I would guess about a 2.4. If you've ever read any of those "best companies in Milwaukee to work for" articles... I ended up getting a job at one of the ones that is always in the top 3. Take that for what it's worth... I'm 26 and I have a great job and I don't see myself leaving the company I work for EVER. Just make sure you don't get kicked out of school and have a blast.

[temke]

make sure you get some sort of "college experience"

 

having spent 5 years in madison, i kind of feel bad for the people i knew that stayed at home and commuted to UWM.

 

even if you are not a party-er, taking in some of the social aspects of college is part of the whole experience...IMO

[mothershipconnection]

I'd really advise you to pay more attention to your GPA than some others are. True, many employers simply look for a degree earned and not GPA. However, there are a lot of ways GPA will make you stand out. If you ever transfer to a department with selective admissions, they're gonna look at GPA. If you ever think about grad school, they're gonna look at GPA. Want a competitive internship (that will lead to a nice job? GPA. Want to add a couple things to your resume? Dean's lists and academic honors can set you apart. If you want a letter of recommendation from a professor in a big department where they don't know individual students very well, they'll base a lot of it on your academic record.

 

So yeah, in the end, your future employer may not pay a ton of attention to GPA, but the things on your resume aside from "Bachelor of [college]: [major]" are easier to get when your grades are good. I got my undergrad research experience which led to the the letter of rec that probably sealed the deal for grad school admission (he would have written one for employment too) because I had very good grades.

 

 

but because he was SUPER conservative (by his own admission). Ran for office in Madison as a Libertarian I believe. Crazy man...liked to talk about drinking a lot...fun class.

 

Those guys always make for very interesting lecturers. The angry "I do what I want and everyone who tells me otherwise is an idiot" bitter old man types are some of my favorite professors. Even though I don't align well with them politically, I really like the approach of critically/cynically evaluating everything more than the "everything is wonderful" approach. The ability to think critically and be an objective skeptic is a very important academic skill, IMO.

[adamb100]

Im kinda concerned with my social life now. I have yet to meet any new friends http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/frown.gif Kinda hard too in lectures though. :p

 

Also the bill for tuition came in, $3328.70 for this semester is owed.

[chadomac]

your dorm friend is the key, my friend. he will take you to the promised land (which is most likely a dingy basement with plastic cups of busch light and young girls).

[Baldkin]

Tips to improve social life:

 

Intramural sports. Great way to meet people.

 

If you're not an athletic guy... sign up for a 1 credit course in something. Whether its bowling, billiards or ballroom dancing.

[gypcasino]

your dorm friend is the key, my friend. he will take you to the promised land (which is most likely a dingy basement with plastic cups of busch light and young girls).

 

Busch Light? That is the promised land. It was Old Milwaukee and Meister Brau when I was in college. But yeah, just befriend someone in the dorms and that'll lead to meeting all kinds of people. I loved living in the dorms. I hung out with all kinds of people that I never would have been friends with in high school.

[chadomac]

yep. I never missed a thursday/friday/saturday night in 1999 or 2000 and Busch Light was the crappy beer of choice for house parties all over the east side. Just awful.

[PlayerHader]

Busch Light is like champagne compared to some of the stuff I've run in to at parties.

 

I actually don't mind Busch Light at all. Decent beer for the price. Perfect for a long day or night of drinking.

[JJHardy7]

As far as the social life, I would try to get involved in as many things as possible (that you enjoy of course). I was an RA for 3 years at UW-M and I can tell you that a lot of people even in the dorms have a hard time meeting people (mostly due to the way the rooms are set up in my opinion). There are a lot of programs that go on in the dorms (as RAs we have to do them) and some might not seem like all that fun, but there will be people there that you can meet. Hope this helps.

[adamb100]

Haha, I skipped my discussion class today(mostly cause I wrote the wrong room # for the class >.<).