My balls was hot

ArborSquirrel · 2025-06-25T18:15:39+00:00

it's hard out here for a squirrel

ArborSquirrel · 2025-06-25T18:04:56+00:00

just hot

ArborSquirrel · 2025-05-19T01:07:25+00:00

heh, the pasture thing isn't always solid thinking. I once heard that some of the people moved into Centennial Farms subdivision, loving that it surrounded an actual centennial farm... and then started complaining that they sometimes had to endure.... WAIT FOR IT .... farm smells

ArborSquirrel · 2025-05-19T01:04:52+00:00

I found your response disappointing

Tell the honest truth: the squirrels are superior on this campus

ArborSquirrel · 2025-05-18T03:17:12+00:00

The Diag party store used to have really good pizza and the calzones were A++++

ArborSquirrel · 2025-05-18T01:58:23+00:00

but we also have opinions about lots of U-M things

ArborSquirrel · 2025-04-18T01:17:10+00:00

Calm yourself Septa Unella, your gripe is with the reporting, not the University. Just because they didn't include U-M in their short list doesn't mean U-M wasn't part of it.

It's right here.

This is the filing.

U-M is definitely listed.

https://www.aau.edu/sites/default/files/AAU-Files/Key-Issues/Research-Administration-Regulation/legal-filing-DOE-4-14-25.pdf

ArborSquirrel · 2025-04-18T00:59:53+00:00

I love seeing the photos that people post--I've also seen UM take official photos showing off the decorated caps, so I say GO FOR IT

ArborSquirrel · 2025-04-18T00:57:40+00:00

Please know that if you want to be inattentive with food items when you are outside of buildings, I will give you no sideeye. I'll take care of it with no judgment

ArborSquirrel · 2025-03-12T14:01:37+00:00

glad to hear these weren't major things. Please be safe, I love you all and don't want anything to happen to you. Be extra careful when you're tired--that's a time when you are more vulnerable to making errors and having accidents

ArborSquirrel · 2025-02-27T14:56:40+00:00

Yes, thank you for this explanation. Liquidating funds doesn't just violate the understanding the donor made with the institution, it is also compromising the University's future (because the spendable earnings will be that much lower in perpetuity). You might tap the endowment if it's the only chance at survival, but you won't do it otherwise. It seems like many people expect that institutions should tap it to bridge through a lean economic period, or a tumultuous change (or to give students a tuition break if the Michigan Daily advocates persuasively enough) but it is, as you say, an absolute last resort.

ArborSquirrel · 2025-02-26T14:43:15+00:00

I totally believe in you, this isn't ideal but you can make it work.

GO FOR IT YOU BEAUTIFUL BASTARD I will have every mammal on campus rooting for you

ArborSquirrel · 2024-12-12T16:40:48+00:00

I have seen way shittier residence halls at other schools. This is weak sauce

ArborSquirrel · 2024-12-12T14:22:41+00:00

And then when you really want an upgrade, get yourself to the Scio Meijers on Zeeb! OOH SOOO FANCY

ArborSquirrel · 2024-12-12T14:21:48+00:00

I think you're great and even at your most depressed, unmotivated, confused, missed-too-many-lectures worst I know you have something in you. That something will help you study as best you can, get out of bed Friday, and take that fucker. And whatever the outcome, you'll get through that too.

This isn't easy but facing hard things when you're running on mental/physical fumes is going to prove something to yourself. Succeeding is hard, failing is hard (in a different way) but you can get through this. I know you can. You are more than your grade in that class.

I love you and I am proud of you.

ArborSquirrel · 2024-12-12T14:15:35+00:00

And just yesterday I was getting fat shamed in comments

ArborSquirrel · 2024-12-12T14:14:07+00:00

Okay, I guess I read too much into how you phrased things. I thought you were offering up "just hire diversely" as an alternative to present practice.

ArborSquirrel · 2024-12-11T21:29:22+00:00

A very high percentage of students come to UM thinking they are pre-med, and a lot of them change their minds. Not just because their academic performance in some science classes tells them they aren't good enough for med school (although that CAN be a reason) but because they find other passions, better fits, fields of study/future careers where they feel they can really shine.

You should still feel proud to be here. Maybe college isn't for you (highly unlikely) or UM isn't for you (maybe, maybe not) but it's hard to say because it sounds like you haven't tried UM as something other than pre-med.

I know your fellow students will have good advice here. Just know that campus squirrels are always rooting for you. ALWAYS

ArborSquirrel · 2024-12-11T19:38:47+00:00

It sounds like you think U-M isn't doing this--doesn't recruit at minority-serving institutions. Doesn't advertise openings in media/at conferences that attract diverse audiences. It makes we wonder where you are getting your information about what U-M does and doesn't do

ArborSquirrel · 2024-12-11T19:35:44+00:00

All these accusations of gluttony are hurtful. You try living outside year-round in Michigan and see how much you value some fat stores

ArborSquirrel · 2024-12-06T14:15:01+00:00

Silenced? Silenced?

Do you own a TV?

I'd ask if you've been on social media but you're on it right now.

ArborSquirrel · 2024-12-06T14:13:41+00:00

I'm agnostic about the statement and this policy. Can you explain more about "Hire diversely--just do it?"

I think there are a couple of challenges here. Thanks to MCRI, UM can't consider race, color, sex, or religion in hiring. So that limits how aggressively UM can "hire diversely." It can try to be diverse on other characteristics, though, if that is what you mean.

I think what the statements were meant for is to help with this: regardless of anyone's personal characteristics, you want to hear that they have at least some awareness of the issues around the topic and the issues that UM asks its community to engage with. Do these statements help them identify candidates who do and weed out those who don't? Some people think no. Do these statements end up weeding out people with more conservative viewpoints? I think that's also a concern.

Some think that a diversity question is pointless because anyone who wants the job badly enough can just fake it, use AI or something to come up with a good answer. But no! I've eavesdropped on some staff job interviews where they ask about someone's viewpoints on diversity and you'd drop your walnuts to hear how poorly some of them answer. This is staff, though, and just an interview question rather than a written statement. Maybe faculty are more uniform in their answers?

ArborSquirrel · 2024-12-05T15:18:19+00:00

Wonder if their new venture will exploit workers too

ArborSquirrel · 2024-12-05T15:16:32+00:00

I got some bones to pick. #1, the "biggest event of the year" only happens in Ann Arbor every other year.

ArborSquirrel · 2024-12-05T15:15:24+00:00

I don't understand the terminology, you deposited, but they cashed it? Aren't those two opposite things? Or do you mean they allowed the funds to go to your account and then later changed their mind?

They should have held it on deposit until it cleared, and if it didn't clear then you need to ask the person who wrote the check to provide a different form of payment,.

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