What is This Sucks?
This Sucks is an e-mail address run by the Student Life Committee that seeks to hear any, and we mean ANY, complaints from the student body.
- Do you have a problem with the meal credit system?
- Are you pissed off about your classes?
- Do you hate the chairs in the UGLI?
This Sucks is here to listen to any concerns, academic and non-academic, that you may have about the school.
Some things that have been changed because of complaints sent to This Sucks are:
- Added ash trays around campus
- Better laundry facilities
- Smaller credit brackets for registration
Please leave a comment below or e-mail us at ThisSucks@umich.edu with any concerns and we will do our best to fix the problem or at least find an answer for any of your questions.
Daniel Katz says:
The laundry machines are thieves! We cannot let them go unpunished any longer.
John Monaghan says:
In the racquetball courts in the IM building, there are no hooks for your coats so you have to keep all of your stuff on the ground. Seems like a little thing that could be easily fixed.
Mike LaMarra says:
I used to live by the CCRB and I always liked that when I locked my things in the lockers there I would get my quarter back after I re-inserted the key. However, now that I live by the IM building and workout there I’ve noticed that I don’t get my quarter returned to me and instead the lockers keep it. I mean for all the money we all already pay for these facilities, is it too much to ask to have free lockers?
John Gunnell says:
The bathroom stalls in mason hall men’s room have large, open gaps along the doors. I don’t enjoy meeting the eyes of onlookers while I do my business.
Diana Parrish says:
You want to know what sucks? I’ll tell you what sucks. I hate that when we hold events at the Union we are forced to use their overpriced and poor quality catering service. Considering how sub-par the food is, I would really appreciate a more substantial discount for student groups who aren’t able to pay $9 for a gallon of fruit punch. Either let me go to Kroger, or charge something in the realm of reasonable. Thanks much.
Sasha Tandlich says:
It sucks that the university makes you leave 24 hours after your last exam. As a freshman, I didn’t even know about it until my roommate told me. Apparently it’s up on the walls, but I think we should be notified more officially and a lot earlier. I’m an out-of-state student, so I need to be able to buy my ticket knowing this information, and I don’t want to wait until it gets expensive. Also, I think the whole idea of it is ridiculous. We shouldn’t have to move out until the building closes. Most people want to leave early anyway, so I don’t think it will result in a bunch of people moving out at the same time. Since I’m not from Michigan, my parents can’t pay to fly here and back to help me move out. So, it’s hard to have to pack up and then ship/put in storage all the stuff alone. I don’t want to worry about this while I’m studying for my exams, and it will definitely take more than a day to get all my stuff pulled together. In addition, I want to stay for the Dalai Lama lecture.
Ada Dominguez says:
I live in Northwood and you know what I think sucks? I think it sucks how Northwood only has 3 buses running through the entire campus, while Bursley and Baits have buses every 5 minutes. Bursley-Baits is such a short route, while Northwood is really long, and there are a lot of undergrads that live in Northwood who need the transportation. The Northwood buses also make a lot of long stops. I think we can fix that.
Melissa Englund says:
There are far too few electrical outlets in the Union. It would be great if there was one at every booth.
Steven Benson says:
The flickering lights in the UGLI. Can’t the maintenance staff change the light bulbs! It is 3 am and I am trying to study, but I am about to have a seizure because the light above me keeps flickering! Go lsa-sg!
Maclain Wiltzer says:
CS-LSA degree requires creative-oriented people to take Calc 1-3, and guess what? They are 3 out of 5 pre-reqs before you can even get into CS.
I have never had to use Calculus in real world software development. So why do they have these absurd requirements? Oh yeah, the Chief Advisor for EECS told me face-to-face that this requirement is idiotic, and yet they still keep it.
Oh yeah, they are trying to force me to retake Calc 3, because OMG I got a C, which you know totally affects my ability to develop software.
Prakash Venkatraman says:
The search engine on the Umich website sucks. When I try to search for anything the results I get have nothing to do with my search string. For example, I tried running a search on “campus restaurants” to find a new place to eat, and my results were things like “College of Pharmacy News” or “Tech Day 2007.” Isn’t there something that can be done about this?
Prakash Venkatraman says:
We also need more outlets in the UGLI. It seems counterproductive to go to the library to study only to spend about 45 min (no joke) trying to find a table near an empty elec. socket.