University of Wisconsin Madison

UWM in short is a big huge university. I am not exaggerating. I did not see other universities, but from what i hear, its huge for the US standards itself. There are over 150 buildings and each one is a big building. The entire school of engineering is in 5 buildings; Just to give you an idea on the size of each building. The Engineering hall is so confusing that the people who have been here for over a year still have not seen all the corners of the corridors of the Engineering hall. That's 1/5 buildings in school of engineering. So... enough said about the size of the buildings. The university also has almost 76 libraries.. wait.. i think its 78... anyways, has a freakishly large number of libraries... Supposed to have all the litrature crap and is the second largest library for political studies with Library of Congress being the largest!

The College is also second largest funded college with ~1bn dollars allocated each year. I still am exploring the area, but the place is really nice. Temperatures are just getting cold . Just the other day, it went to 36F(~2.5deg Centigrade!) because of the wind chill. The locals are telling that the winter is setting in early this year and thats not a good news for them! But coming in fall gives an oppertunity to acclamatize to the weather. I have got enough warm clothes for the snow fall and stuff. I hope they are enough. Anyways, I will be out only to catch a bus. That should be a max of 10 min wait.

There are metro busses in madison and are free for students. Or rather, they are sponsored by the students assosiation. We get free ride passes through out the year.

There is Hoofers sailing club here in Madison which has a very big 9x5 mile lake called Mendota. The sailing lessons are pretty cheap at $170 a year with unlimited free rides, friday socials, and a $65 kick-back if you work for 8 hours at the club in the subscribed year! The second cheapest sailing lessons in USA costs about $1500.. :)

There are a lot of student associations and its impossible to keep a track of all of them. Infact this is the only university in USA which has 2 independent student maintained newsletters. Not that it matters to me, I am just vomiting that I heard yesterday in the walk, ride and sail trip. The walk trip was pretty boring, but the other two were pretty good.

There is an arboretum very close to the university that seemd pretty scenic. Its like a jungle near the city. The sail ride was cool. Our skipper gave us some quick and cool tips about sailing. Madison has the state capitol in it and the limits that no building can be taller than the capitol. So, no Sky-scratchers(I know its scrapers!). Just very wide and large buildings. I think i will like it here, but hey.. i have just been here three weeks!! and still haven't seen the winters yet. They say all sorts of stories about winter.

Will keep posting!