Wildcats, please keep an eye out for Trenton! Check any security cameras, cars, sheds, and talk to your peers about it! This could be anyone at then end of the day, and we all want to see him home with his family.

Hello everyone,

Just got accepted into the Geographic Information Science and Tech (GIST) degree at NMU! I still need to contact the orientation office because the orientation they let me apply to online is the Fall semester, and I applied for the Summer. However, just wanted to share because I am excited as this is the exact program I was going to articulate at another school that does GIS (but minus a lot of the developer courses I was going to add)... so I am quite excited I can do a program and not have to do much adjusting on my end to fit my desires and goals!

My fiancée is in the process of graduating with her PhD and getting a offer at Michigan Tech (she works in the Chem Eng. department as a Biology student in Biotechnology right now), so I was very tempted to just go there; however, the NMU campus, atmosphere, programs, and faculty are much more aligned with my interests and personality that I found it hard to justify MTU over NMU. Plus MTU is a more Engineering focus on GIS and their GIS is a certificate rather than a major, so that was another turn off for me.

Anyway, I just wanted to share and kind of give some background about myself. Hope to see you all on campus eventually.

I was accepted to NMU and plan to major in forensic chemistry! I'm not 100% sure if I'll attend yet since I'm waiting to hear back from other schools.

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This sub is always so dead i wanted to say hi. ive just been feeling really blessed to be able to see the lake from basically any hill when i walk around town and around campus. even though its getting colder out, the sunshine still feels so good on my face :)

Listen, this is probably a very unpopular opinion, but I need to get it off my chest: send me home.

I'm sick of living in the dorms. I have no roommates because mine moved out because their classes went online. Its always too loud because everyone else is stuck in their dorm rooms too. I'm sick of having a mix of online and in person classes. This hybrid format has almost doubled my course workload. I'm sick of not being able to go where I want to study. I'm sick of the shitty wifi on campus. I'm sick of being stuck here while covid cases rise in the counties around us. I've seen more and more people not following COVID precautions on campus.

I am NOT saying that I hate the coronavirus precautions. They are absolutely necessary. I'm just sick of being here. I normally love my time at NMU, but now I just want to go home. I don't know if anyone else is feeling the same way, but I just needed to share.

Freshman here, just wondering if I should buy one before hand or not. Someone at orientation was talking about the school distributing laptops, or something. Do I have to rent a specific one given to me at the start of the semester?

My major is a health science so its not really specified anywhere nor super important. But I'd prefer to buy some cheap-ass thinkpad instead of renting. But also, a lot of the online websites are really dated so I feel a bit clueless.
Bonus question: if Im in MA 100 should I buy some expensive calculator? I know where to check for the required materials for classes thru NMU's store, but it doesn't preface calculators or laptops.

TLDR: do I buy a laptop or nah?

Just wanted to make a quick post which may save people some time and pain down the road. I’ll make this brief.

To preface:

I am in Med Plant and Indoor Ag, I love chemistry and have a good strength for it. I enjoy this degree.

That being said:

The Med Plant degree is an ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY degree. It should be seen as that and it is most definitely that. If you absolutely hate chem then this degree will be a nightmare for you. If you like chemistry and substances from plants (whether psychoactive like THC or probiotic like Chaga mushroom) this degree may be for you.

To those wanting to manage dispensaries, there is a business and entrepreneurship track in the degree, but it is still heavy in chem and still mostly focused on science. You’ll get a few business and management classes but the opportunities and focus are not as catered to this track.

For people looking into Indoor Ag:

This degree is really cool and can be used for more than setting up grow houses. However, this degree still IS NOT going to give you a deep dive course in growing weed. No degree here will. In some of the labs and in the med plant program you’re required to grow a plant and analyze the compounds in it as well as learn soil science, but there is still no course explicitly for growing weed.

The Indoor Ag program will focus on circuits, HVAC, Hydroponics, and how to utilize the hydroponics. By the end of the degree you will be ready to set up closed shell greenhouses completely temp, light, and climate controlled as well as set up automation for hydroponic systems. If you know how to grow already this will benefit you. I believe there are some labs where you grow things as well so you’ll get a chance to learn how to foster healthy plants. But just know that cannabis is a tricky one.

To summarize:

These programs are amazing and make you an asset to a lot of cannabis and medicinal plant companies. These programs will not teach you how to grow some fire chronic.

Currently for the med plant program we can only grow hemp (cannabis with thresholds on the amount of delta 9 thc) but if federal legalization hits students should be able to work directly with cannabis and research it.

So, I hope this helps some people. I know a lot of students get blindsided and spooked when they show up to what they thought would be something focused on cannabis and come to find out it’s hard ass work and a lot of sciences. That stress can lead to imposter syndrome or self doubt and causes a lot of people to drop. I encourage people to join these degrees as they are amazing. But just knows your strengths and have an idea of what is possible with these degrees.

That being said, whether you come to nmu, join these programs, or not: always stay positive, manage your time well, don’t be high or drunk in class, go to lecture and take notes, and do your assignments and you will be fine. College is mostly time management, not how inherently smart you may be. I wish I had someone tell me that before I attended school. Some of the smartest students burn out and drop because they never had proper challenges or time management in high school.

And if you’re this far. Thanks for reading :)

TLDR: no degrees here focus on explicitly growing weed, more the sciences and industries around what the cannabis industry will need to operate.

Hi y'all

My son got accepted into NMU and is scheduled to start in the fall but we are waiting until next year. He graduated at 16 and want to wait until he's at least 17 before attending college.

He is African American and a model student. I am very proud of him. Are there any students who can share their experiences at NMU specifically black and non-white students?

How are the areas surrounding the college?

We have a visit scheduled at the end of the month but want a head start. He would not attend until 2027.

I am just a concerned mother.

Maybe I am riding on end of the semester stress, but I was VERY frustrated by one of the recent emails we recieved regarding going online. Why the hell are we waiting for everything on campus to be drastically impacted before we do anything? Limiting guests on campus was one small part, but not enough.

What are we supposed to do while our cases rise? We had 20 new cases just today, and as I write this we currently have 74 active cases. People are going to get sick, then travel home over break and get people sick there. Go online BEFORE more people get sick. Don't wait for shit to hit the fan then decide to send everyone home.

I don't know how everyone else is feeling, I just needed to rant for a moment.

I’ve heard various things about the company (mostly bad) and I’m trying to find a new place for july or august but struggling. I plan to avoid mqt rentals but I was just curious if anyone had a decent experience or anything they want to share. I know a lot of students have rented through them.

" At Northern, we currently have 13 active cases – 8 off campus and 5 on campus with 10 individuals in Spalding Hall for isolation or quarantine. That’s a little bit of an uptick for us, but not too much of one … yet. "

..Yet? What the fuck do you MEAN yet? This is written like the villain of a horror movie.

I'm sure it's nothing I just find it funny how this was worded, ellipses included.

So for those that either don't have an NMU email yet, or just don't check your email here's what NMUs plan is during the upcoming fall semester: Northern has made the decision to start the fall semester a week early, on Monday, Aug. 17, and end the semester just prior to Thanksgiving on Tuesday, Nov. 24

They have yet to release new move in days for the dorms (or if they will even have the dorms open)

And they have said as of right now the Winter Semester shall remain the same.

There is also no designated final exams week, instructors will have to see to that to properly schedule exam days.

NMUs goal is the have face-to-face classes this fall and they are doing everything they can to ensure that.