North vs South

[lauradi7dw]

In this case, the compass directions indicate a serious divide between not just campuses at UML but majors, budget inclusions, and all kinds of stuff.

Part of this was inevitable when forming a university from several older tech schools, but despite the moaning and the claims of good intentions toward making us all one (I don't think they actually phrase it in Dr Bronner terms), things really do seem set up to keep people separate. After summer school Physics in July and August, I'll probably never need to go to North Campus again. For some reason, while moping about in the heat this afternoon, I suddenly decided to look up the Biochemistry course I'm scheduled to take in the fall. The first thing I did was put Biochemistry in the search box, but that led me to the Biology department (which is on North Campus)for this course http://www.uml.edu/catalog/courses/undergraduate/81.419.htm
rather than the Nutrition department, which oddly enough is where the course I have to take is situated (South Campus)
http://www.uml.edu/catalog/courses/undergraduate/36.350.htm
While I was poking around, I found that there is a "Pre-health professions office" that is geared towards getting people into Med, dental, veterinary, etc schools. There is no mention of the fact that UML itself offers nursing through the PhD level, Physical Therapy the same, or a med tech degree. I'd have thought those were health professions, but maybe they don't count since they're on South Campus.

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[calygrey.livejournal.com]

I attended Lowell State, no - Lowell Tech, no - Lowell State, no- Lowell State - the two years after it "joined". It wasn't fun then. It's too bad they haven't figured it out sometime during the intervening 30 years.

(I was in Biology; there were two Chairmen, one for each campus. Neither had a sense of humor.)

[lauradi7.livejournal.com]

Well, it's not that bad, but it apparently is possible with careful scheduling for people in some majors to spend their entire academic life in only one or the other campus (the person with whom I shared the tutor this spring claimed to have never been on South - she is majoring in atmospheric science). A few of the everybody-has-to-take kind of classes are taught on both (like Freshman English) and the intro Psych and Statistics classes also happen both places. There are libraries both places. It's my experience that the North campus reference librarians are more competent than the South ones, but maybe that's just me.
The rec center and the vast majority of the dorms are on East (near the baseball park), a patch of neutral ground, so there is lots of overlap in people's free time for the people who live on campus. What the administration is thinking of doing is adding fun stuff (like a skating rink) on South to get some of the North only people to visit, but that's way in the future. The health service is on South. I think it would make more sense to have it on East, where most of the residence halls are, but they didn't ask me.