Is Baits II the best dorm at UMich?

Living there was pretty cool. I lived in a suite my first year with 4 other people. The buildings were pretty nice, but the housing facility ended up being the outdoor mall equivalent for dorms. I’d have to walk outside of my building if I needed to go to the community center for mail, and the movie theater (btw there’s a movie theater and they host football watch events regularly) was in another, separate building. It was an annoying walk during the winter despite the really short distance. Plus, this housing area didn’t have a dining hall. The only dining hall on North Campus is less than a 2-4 minute walk depending on how fast you move, but, once again, the distance was really annoying over the winter. Fortunately, Baits II has a bus stop that takes you straight to the dining hall and all the way to central campus (as of Winter 2022). UM has an app that displays bus time estimates and routes (fyi), so as long as the routes weren’t being changed again (in which case the app took forever to catch up and Google Maps even longer), then you could plan your schedule around the buses for the most part. Another downside is the bug issue my suitemates and I were experiencing. Most of the time, bugs only appeared in my and my roommate’s room, but the bugs were bigger than she and I had ever seen. Fortunately, they went away during the winter, so once it got below 40s regularly, we were fine for the most part until we left for the summer. One more thing, Baits doesn’t have air conditioning - which was brutal for the first 2 weeks of school my first year - so make sure to get a good personal fan. Overall, Baits II wasn’t that bad. This was my first housing experience at UM, so I had nothing to compare it to.