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Looking for friends!

Heya, anyone else here at MSU / EL for the summer looking to make some friends? I've been pretty bored and lonely lately cause most of my friends are not here for the summer so I figured I'd see if anyone else is around looking to make some new friends or hang out irl!

I'm 21M, rising senior.. feel free to dm so we can talk more and maybe we can get a small group going if enough people dm :)

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u/_Dabzzy_ — 1 day ago
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Transfer to UMich as a sophomore?

Anyone had any luck transferring to UMich as a sophomore? Looks like near perfect grades, selective schedule and a strong letter of recommendation are necessary. What else?

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u/Still_Ad_8674 — 1 day ago
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Looking for an Apartment

Hey all,

I'm an incoming PhD student starting in Fall. I am just so confused about the housing situation. For context, I am an international student and I don't have a car so I need to be close to campus in general (10-15 min walk). This also limits me because I can't really tour apartments because I will be flying in close to my starting date.

I am looking for an apartment that is preferably a 1B1B/studio close to the college of natural sciences. Also open to a 2B2B if the apartment location and amenities are worth it. If you guys have any advice based on experience as to where I should look for apartments or want to share apartment buildings that y'all would recommend, I will really appreciate it. I am looking for a lease that starts around the 10th of August.

If you are also sub-leasing your apartment, I am happy to chat more.

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u/WonderfulBig8127 — 1 day ago
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Need a place to stay for 1 week in East Lansing before dorm move-in (international student)

Hey everyone,

I'm in a bit of a tough spot and was wondering if anyone has any suggestions.

I'm an international student at MSU. My lease ends on July 31, but I can't move back into my dorm until August 7, so I'm stuck with about a one-week gap. (I am an RA)

I did email REHS and they said they cannot let me move in earlier.

I do have a car, so I don't necessarily need to stay right next to campus. I'm mainly looking for the most affordable option since it's only for a week.

Does anyone know of:

- Cheap short-term housing or weekly rentals?

- Anyone subletting a room for just a week?

- Any hotels that offer good weekly rates?

- Whether MSU has any temporary housing options for situations like this?

I'd really appreciate any advice or recommendations. Thanks!

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u/Wonderful_Work_4989 — 2 days ago
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Linguistics and Language

Anyone here study linguistics or take a foreign language??

I'm looking to study some languages independently at MSU

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u/CreatorTransurfing — 2 days ago
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Chemistry Building to Wells Hall

Hello, I’m an incoming freshman. I’m in the process of enrolling in classes and I’m wondering if I’m cutting it too close with a 20 minute gap in between a class in the chemistry building and a class in wells hall. Any advice? I’m planning on walking everywhere.

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u/Western-Parfait-1379 — 3 days ago
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Spartan Ventures seems like a scam

I just got an email about Spartan ventures. It seems like a scam to me. Offloading a public universities recruiting and promotional responsibilities to a for profit company just seems like bad news. The fact that they had to send an essay to justify it as well… feels like we’re being manipulated. Curious what others think. Is it worth selling the universities soul to private equity for a slightly better than mediocre football program over the next few years?

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u/Available_Positive77 — 4 days ago
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Incoming freshman wondering about bringing a car to MSU: any parking options?

Hi! I’ll be an incoming freshman at MSU this fall and I was wondering if there is absolutely anyyyyy possible way to bring my car to campus and park somewhere, even if I don't qualify for a regular freshman parking permit.
I know freshmen usually have restrictions with parking, but I was wondering if there are any alternatives (paid lots, private parking, off-campus options, apartments that rent spaces, etc). Payment isn’t really an issue. I’m mostly just trying to figure out if there is any way I can have my car nearby.
Has anyone else been in this situation or found a workaround? Any advice would be appreciated

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u/ybranski — 4 days ago
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LAST DAY TO VOTE for Michigan's new "I voted" stickers for 2026 Elections

Voting closes at 11:59 P.M. TONIGHT! Get your votes in now. Some super great ones this year - the ones pictured in the graphic are from 2024, but you can post your favorite 2026 sticker in the comments!.

Vote Here: https://forms.cloud.microsoft/pages/responsepage.aspx?id=h3D71Xc3rUKWaoku9HIl0ajjkSwlC4dEvMYAs9gerCpURDRSV1hIUDNNQTNCOFpXSlJER1lZVkVIVy4u&route=shorturl

More info: state "I voted" sticker contest webpage

u/sarawr18 — 5 days ago
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schedule advice

i can either do macro econ online or 830 on tuesdays and thursdays im not sure which i should choose. is the class useful to have in person? I took macro in high school and it was pretty difficult but im also not a morning person in the slightest.

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u/Cryptic-Blade — 3 days ago
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substitute teaching in lansing/east lansing

I'm thinking about substitute teaching in the mornings or afternoons around my classes. Has anyone done this, and if so, can you share any insight you think might be helpful? I'm trying to find a somewhat stable income so I can pay rent.

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u/Awsomepapperdog — 4 days ago
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One of my scholarships was not posted to my account until after graduation ? Can I keep it since I was technically entitled to it ? Anyone have a situation like this before ?

This week: I received email saying I have a refund coming, which is odd because I graduated this past spring, so I checked my account to make sure I’m not registered for summer courses and I’m not.

So then I check SIS and I recognize the scholarship specific name(has donor family name), which I was awarded in the previous year(and is renewable). Checked the new award letter and there it is.

It’s dated for spring 2026, but didn’t disburse til this week. My guess is there was some kind of end of year reconciliation/review and the system or someone realized it hadn’t been applied to my last year of college. It’s a very specific scholarship with the donor family name in it, so it’s not like they randomly gave me a scholarship I hadn’t received before, which makes it much harder for it to be an accident. It’s a few thousand, which would be nice to keep since I paid some of my tuition out of pocket last semester. Right now, planning to just put it in savings account for emergencies.

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u/Anonymous_2156 — 4 days ago
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[Friendly reminder] Please don't click on any links for "t-shirts" on this sub

Lately there's been a lot of those stupid t-shirt scam posts here.

I don't think anyone will fall for it, but just in case, don't click on any links that are provided, it's a scam done by bots. I'm so sick of seeing these stupid scams everywhere on this site.

90% of the time it's that dumb Beavis and Butthead shirt.

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u/byniri_returns — 4 days ago
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Lease takeover

Hello! I am looking for someone to take over my 1 year lease at Skyvue. I am in a one bedroom apartment. Very spacious bedroom and closet with great amenities such as a gym and pool. Skyvue is pet friendly as well. The apartment comes fully furnished, and with appliances like washer and dryer, dishwasher, etc. If you take over my lease, you would be paying $1400 a month. The current leasing price is $1485, so you would be saving $85 a month!

I am in the middle of looking for a new apartment. Move in would be sometime mid-end of august. I will have a more concrete date once I sign my lease at my new place.

Please DM me if interested!

u/Successful_Volume989 — 4 days ago
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“department approval required”

i enrolled in mth 254h (honors multivar), but it says department approval in the class notes. is this only if a student is not in the honors college, or do i still need to email the prof/dept even though i am? the other pre reqs are lower calc, which i’ve been told i have because i passed ap calc ab and bc, but they haven’t put my ap credits into the system yet 😵‍💫 also, the enrollment is /0, so they’re admitting students individually i think? i just added myself to the waitlist, but it shows up as enrolled. worried i screwed this up somehow 😖

u/Longjumping_End6527 — 5 days ago
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Completely Outrageous Requirement for an online class

I am a Zoology major and I am finishing my internship and the last class I need to graduate this summer. The class I needed was IBIO 445 Evolution. It is an online class and I have had no major issues with them in the past. Some of them have been a little work heavy but that’s to be expected for the accelerated format. However I just checked the syllabus as my class starts tomorrow and was greeted with this graded “assignment” that you will fail the class if you don’t do. I am currently working roughly 70 hours a week right now as 40 of them is my unpaid internship and the other 30ish hours are my paid job so I can actually pay the bills. If it was just the other assignments it would be perfectly manageable and I could get stuff done at my own pace. But having an arbitrary requirement of amount of hours spent on the class is genuinely insane and I have never seen this in any online class before. I’m positive even some of the most dedicated college students aren’t spending 19 hours a week on a single class especially one over the summer. All this is going to lead to is people faking their logs for the grade or just using up all of their time working on stuff that they probably could have done in way less time. In a hypothetical scenario you could ace every assignment and get a perfect score on the final exam but if you only logged spending 35 hours total on the work then you fail the class. I’m willing to bet that there will be less than 10% of the students in the class that do this completely legitimately.

u/franklin2001 — 7 days ago