This is exactly how I feel. I have Adblock, but there is still a very strong pull to the left column that's distracting as I'm searching.
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It's not listed on the website, but I'm on MPowered's team that's launching a new program in the dorms that groups a bunch of entrepreneurial students together to live and work together and mentor each other.
I'm a freshman here at umich. I considered many of those same schools above and was down to WashU and umich in the end. I chose here because the computer science department and engineering school in general is far better, and the size of the school means there are simply amazing resources available.
Even more so, entrepreneurship is HUGE on this campus. I'm doing a web startup right now, and the resources are unbelievable. There's a large community of student web startups ( > 15 in one startup founder group here), a big student entrepreneurship organization (MPowered) that among other things supports startups, and centers for entrepreneurship at both the business and engineering schools that support you with advice and help you get seed money.
As well, with it being a huge school with so many of its programs in the top 10, there's so much going on and so many random people you can talk to. My first few weeks of freshman year, I met with political science, engineering, and informatics professors to talk about my project to get some advice, and all were open to taking some of their time just to chat with a random freshman about his project.
If you want to hear more, send ME an email (NOSPAM == @) afeldman NOSPAM pamiproductions.com
EDIT: As well, being a big school, there of course is every social group imaginable around, and there are always people around who want to go have fun and others who want to work, and others who want to do both. I know it sounds like it above but I really, really love being here, especially as a web startup founder.
otherwise, unless you invested in commercial solutions (microwave transceivers), i believe you are stuck chaining together repeaters or running a cable.