98 Days to Football and Reason #98 to Love Ann Arbor

by Maize n Brew Dave on May 24, 2008 10:08 AM CDT

#98 in our continuing Series of 100 Days to Football and 100 Reasons to Love Ann Arbor

#98 - The UGLi

Hey! The place I told my parents I studied at! (via www.lib.umich.edu)

Ah, the venerable Undergraduate Library, affectionately referred to as "the UGLi." Site of so many wasted nights and wasted mornings right before my exams. To be honest I didn't even know the place existed for my first two years of college. I wish I'd found it sooner. It was quiet. Well lit. Spacious. The perfect place to get caught up on a month's worth of reading in two days. It was also a great place to "run into" the hot girl in your psych class who studied a lot harder than you did. Whether you were trying to bang out a paper or trying to convince your girlfriend that the Science stacks were a great place to bang something else out, the UGLi is one of those Michigan experiences everyone seems to share. And because of that, its #98 on our Countdown.

If you've got suggestions on places you'd like to see, email me with a photo or a description and we'll get your favorite hangouts in the countdown as well (especially you, engineers, I have no idea what you did when you weren't tethered to the computers in North Campus)

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The Stacks

Umm, I’m 99% sure that the stacks to which you refer (at least the ones where banging things out took place) were in the grad library and not the UGLi. Also a good place, the small study cubicles/rooms on the 6th and 7th floor of the grad.

by Juskimo on May 24, 2008 12:06 PM CDT reply actions

Maybe I'm just forgetting the right name for it...

There were a few places in UGLi that were used for… ahem… anatomy study and maybe I’ve just forgotten what/where they were in the undergrad. Help anyone?

by Maize n Brew Dave on May 25, 2008 12:27 PM CDT up reply actions

Never been to UM's campus...

...but I have several friends working in UA’s libraries and I’ve heard tales of them catching people doing everything from…welll…doing each other to entertaining themselves tOSU style.

by Nico2.0 on May 28, 2008 4:53 PM CDT up reply actions

the dude

the duderstat (which I still can’t spell corretly) was such a better library to get stuff done in. then again it wasnt so much a library as a media center. i had some LSA buddies who would go there to study just because it has less distractions (ie women) so they could study without being interrupted.

by formerlyanonymous on May 26, 2008 2:01 AM CDT reply actions

UGLi not so ugly anymore

it sure used to be ugly to look at, though. There were places in the basement of the UGLi that were pretty secluded, and a couple of study rooms upstairs that were set back and semi-private. But the Grad was definitely the place for making out. You could easily get lost in those stacks and there are so many little stairwells all over the place, it’s easy to make an escape. My favorite spot was on the 6th (?) floor where you cross over into the Asian reference section. Nobody ever went there except for your occasional Chinese international student.

What’s the Duderstadt? Sounds like you’re talking about the Media Union on North Campus.

Law Library was a cool place to study if you really craved quiet (study hall) or an escape where nobody could find you (although you needed a friend working the desk to let you in).

Another place I studied (and worked) was the Medical Science Reserve Reading Room. It’s in the basement of the Taubman Medical Library and there were times it was just dead, meaning nobody but me and the mice for my entire 4 hour night shift. In fact, the basement of Taubman had a lot of classrooms that were available all night. Great place to get away. Went exploring every now and then and came across animal cages and 50lb bags of high protein monkey feed (never any live monkeys, though).

by georgiablue on May 27, 2008 9:18 AM CDT reply actions