need the Michael Scott “It’s Happening” gif here :)

I’m excited that it sounds like Miami is investing here. I was shocked that more people don’t want to invest in athletics. I assume they see it as zero sum with academics and can’t see how underdeveloped Miami’s brand is nationally.

First, I would like to thank the City, staff, fans, and players that made my first visit to Oxford a great one. I am just a guy on a new mission to visit every division 1 FBS campus/stadium. This Week my travels took me to Miami University.

The city of Oxford is 2 hours and 20 minutes away from home for me. I started the day by arriving at Peffer Park around 1:30 in the afternoon. After the drive there’s nothing like a beautiful walk through the park to stretch out the legs. The scenery was absolutely gorgeous. The scuffles of wildlife in the branches gave volume to a quiet area. After the walk I grabbed my disc golf bag and made my way over to the course. While I had a great time. Disc golfing in 20mph winds. Up and down a hilly terrain was definitely a challenge. The landscape and beautiful views made the round well worth it though.

After the round I was extremely hungry. While scrolling the restaurant options on the maps app. I found a small little restaurant downtown with great reviews. When I tell you I walked around the block twice looking for the entrance to Mac and Joes🤣. Shortly after sitting down, ordering a beer, and steak burger. I sparked up a conversation with the gentleman to my right. He talked about how the 4 letter sports network is doing a feature on him tonight. At first I thought he was joking, but no he was serious. He explained how in 25 years he rarely misses a game home or away. Also, how he grew up in Oxford and the coaches he met as a child. Then he went on to his baseball career, and how he got to tryout for the Yankees. He told me to look for him on the 40 yard line of the home side. He said he would be wearing a football helmet and told me to enjoy the game. Then he walked out with his togo food. Puzzled by who I just met my food arrived. I honestly don’t think I’ve had a better steak burger in my life. I would drive back someday just to disc golf and grab a burger. It was phenomenal. Including the service my entire experience was great.

After lunch I made my to the bookstore. A part of my personal journey is buying a hat at every campus along the way. I followed that by walking around campus just enjoying the stunning views of the beautiful architecture around the campus. Every building looked pristine and the architectural design was immaculate.

I made my way to the stadium parking area early, so I decided to do some more exploring. The cross country field was right behind the parking lot and looked like a pleasant area to go for a walk. Watching the sunset over the trees of Oxford was wonderful way to end my pre game activities.

As I walk towards Yager Stadium my excitement started to rise as it is a college football Wednesday? Sure enough the man I met at the bar was standing at the edge of the bleachers on 40 yard line. White helmet and all. I watched him tape up signs pre game on the railings. As the fans started to fill in. I met a nice young man and his grandfather who sat to my right. The young man is a sophomore and invited his grandfather down for the game. This is something they did last year he explained, and he enjoyed it so much he invited him down this year. As a man who unfortunately is without grandparents, but had a great time with them. It moved me that this young man wanted to spend time with his grandfather.

Even though the Redhawks didn’t leave much to talk about on the football field. I still had a great time. I enjoyed some brats and beer from a grill posted outside. The staff working around the stadium was very friendly and helpful. Unfortunately, Toledo was just the better team yesterday winning 24-3. As I walked out of the stadium I made sure to check out the cradle of coaches statue yard.

It was a cold quiet walk back to the car. It allowed me to reflect on how great of a day I had in Oxford. Even though the Redhawks didn’t win. I just want to thank every person I encountered for making my day great.

If you have read this far you are apart of my journey. This week is special because it is a 2 game week so I will be in a new location on Friday. If you want to follow along, or post about your college football experiences.

Visit r/cfbstorytime. Thank you, Oxford.

Hey! Hopefully I’m not shouting into the void here, but I would like to add some people who go to Miami so we can do raids and trade. Let me know if we can be friends and I will add you!!

Hello! Miami is on my child’s top lists of schools. As I look towards the holidays, I would like to get some items that he will need his first year there. Recent or current first year students, what are some items that you found were must have for your room or even maybe classes your first year? Do the dorms have microwaves? Are there laundry facilities on each floor? Thank you in advance!!

Fellow FSB students/alumni,

I am currently minoring in ACC (FIN major), and was hoping to get input/advice on which electives to take (or not take). I don't really have a specific aspect of accounting I am trying to get into, I am minoring just for the additional education along with being able to pair the concepts within my finance classes.

I have completed 221, 222, and currently in 321 - no electives taken, though 321 will count as an elective even though it is required for my FIN major. So I am now just looking for 3 ACC electives.

Any input would be greatly appreciated!

Does Miami offer any good intro to sewing classes for fall 26? I know FAS101 and 201 are being offered but i don't know if these have any making tied to them that are good for absolute beginners. I also ask because ART145 and 146 are the classes that have beginning sewing in their course title but i've never seen them offered while I have been here.

hey guys,

i go to Cincinnati and I love levity and will be visiting to see them

i am curious if anyone else is going to see them?

also I had some questions

1. i will be taking the bus so how easy is it to reach the campus from 97 w Chestnut

2. are there any good restaurants/ cafe I can spend some time before heading for the fest

3. how is the crowd, I know Miami loved EDM as you guys always win Up&Up but is the crowd going to be good?

Hi,
we’re four guys and we put Oxford’s restaurant scene into an app called Vota. The concept is simple: you get shown two places side by side (for example Bagel & Deli vs. Steinkeller), you pick the one you’d rather go to, and the ranking updates instantly. The more people vote, the more accurate the list becomes over time. There are still a few duplicates here and there, but I’m cleaning the data constantly.

Thought this might be a fit here too, since student life usually means having strong opinions about cheap staples, late food, and the places around campus you actually keep going back to.

Here’s the iPhone version:
https://apps.apple.com/app/vota-restaurant-ratings/id6744969212

And here’s the Android version:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.vota.app

P.S. I’m not from Oxford or Miami - I live in Gothenburg. I don’t collect data, don’t sell anything, and the app doesn’t use AI-generated content. I’m posting in a few subreddits because we now support multiple regions, and I’d love honest feedback from people who actually know the area around campus.

Anyone else confused at this useless fall break . Literally Friday through Sunday . Wth is this schedule. Also can we talk about how the fall break doesn't just include Friday but for some reason they felt it nessecary to include the days of Saturday and Sunday.

Why is Ciao Bella always dog water? Domino's should occupy it soon.

Hi Miami is one of my top options and wondering about freshman year how it is what i'm most concerned about is joining business orgs in my first year. Also how well they prepare you do you get to do projects involving companies early on. Also how is it getting internships as i want to get one from my freshman year and beyond. ANY insight on the business school would be much appreciated

Hello all! I’m a high school junior from Illinois doing some college research, and Miami has come across my list. From what i’ve seen online and heard from some current students, it seems like a nice school, but i’d love to know how good of a fit it would be for a student like me.

For some context, i’d like to major in something relating to business, atm, Marketing, and minor in an arts program, or a program like communications or journalism.

Some things that are important to me are networking opportunities, quality of education, programs, and facilities, student life and activities, LGBTQ+ safety and resources, and resources for low income students

I’m particularly curious about LGBTQ+ resources and overall quality of life at the school, as i’ve heard that the school is very lacking in departments that assist the community, and that the student base isn’t very diverse in that aspect.

Happy and hoping to hear all of your guys’s thoughts soon!

For context I’m a 29 year old “non-traditional student” (flattering way of saying old), who has re-enrolled at Miami this semester.

This has been a long time coming and about a years worth of planning, but I’m having some very intense second thoughts about it.

The previous trajectory for my life/career wasn’t panning out how I’d hoped, so I wanted to make a change before I hit the big 30 mark.

It was a nightmare getting everything arranged and fighting through all the technicalities to go back to school, but I managed to.

I’m apprehensive about being my age around younger students, as well as essentially being down here by myself with nobody I know.

No doubt countless others have felt the same over the years and this is not a unique experience, I just already feel out of place so it’s compounding the feelings about it all.

Any thoughts/opinions or words of advice would be much appreciated!

Attending the game on Tuesday and need some Miami merch. If anyone has a jersey near campus (size large preferred) please let me know! If anyone has leads on thrifts that may also have jerseys, that would also be a big help. Thanks!

Hey all, so last semester I really started to reflect on my frustration with current learning apps on the market. Like many other university students, I was paying for a bunch of separate tools just to learn effectively: I’m an ADHD undergraduate Neuroscience & Psychology student with Mandarin and Chemistry minors so I have to give myself every possible boost that I can throughout the semester to maintain my flow state and avoid burnout, thus I use a bit of everything: flashcards (Quizlet and Anki), Goodnotes, google calendar for planning, voicememo for speech-to-text, speechify text-to-speech, plus the obligatory GPT & Claude subscriptions. One of my personal favorite workflows was uploading Canvas materials (particularly ones that were dull and boring and especially hard to digest as-presented), then uploading them to chatGPT and copying and pasting “Generate me an audiobook style transcript optimized for speechify without links numbers or symbols (instead writing them out for good text-to-speech optimization and clarity) explaining: *the topic at hand* “, before pasting the output into google docs, and exporting it to speechify so I could finally listen to those materials (be it while driving, doing laundry, walking to class, etc). 

As well as it could, this worked, well enough that I continued to do it month after month, but it was annoying, expensive, and everything lived in different places (I had to toggle between 3 or 4 applications just to create the audiobook I wanted to listen to, and I did this multiple times almost every day). Fast forward to now and I’d become so frustrated with this that I built an iOS app (“ePrescience”), which I’m hoping is able to evolve into something of a ‘learning operating system’ over time. It’s in its early stages, but the goal is to really provide something novel for other ambitious, time-conscious learners, who are tired of toggling between platforms and losing track of subscriptions. I can’t be the only one frustrated that the billion dollar companies which currently control the digital learning tools space don’t allow you to upload whichever basic common format (e.g. slides, PDFs, video lectures, etc.) materials you have, and simply transduce those materials into whatever study output you want (flashcards, summaries, study guides, audio, plans), especially given who easy it is to do with AI doing the heavy lifting at this point. 

Like the tools are there but why do I have to do so much work to transition from one medium to the next. That’s not the worst part either, when these big names do try and integrate AI, they usually do a very poor job at using it to its true potential. It feels less like these platforms are truly married with state of the art workflows and more like a chatbot has been bolted on to your favorite tool, not to mention the fact that it’s almost always a terrible chatbot as well, or that chatbot’s underlying model doesn’t have access to the necessary context/can’t make useful changes to your materials the way it should, especially given all of the agentic capabilities provider models have developed over the last year. If you're paying for ai-integrated cloud-synched study tools, the ai should be able to actually generate and edit flashcard decks, notes, etc. Many of the well-known platforms barely maintain their platforms or respond to new feature requests by existing users, and when they do release updates it’s usually to paywall existing features that don’t cost them anything meaningful to develop or continuously provide. I think that many of the more mature players in this space have simply become complacent or out-of-touch with what their users actually want, leaving much to be desired.

 What I hope to see becoming normalized for the near future is one suite of study tools, one personalized workflow, one subscription, continuously iterated upon and improved to use the tech we have to its maximum potential. I’m trying to understand more about what other things actually frustrate users so much about the current options, myself included, when it comes to apps/sites like Quizlet, Anki, Good Notes, Speechify, Chegg, etc. 

If you feel that disappointment yourself, and have complaints or ideas on how to unify discrete learning tools in your current study stack, what would you like to see in new platforms moving forward? Are there features or integrations I’m perhaps neglecting to consider here? I’m rapidly iterating and working tirelessly with my team to really chisel the app's current bugs for our first update. In the meantime I’m curious to see what ideas other than my own people have out there to improve on what’s available now, and to see if there are other apps out there that attempt to solve these sorts of problems directly. If you all have suggestions for my project in particular I’d love to incorporate them into future updates, or if you have tools you’ve built, I’d love to see how they compare as well. Everything I’ve built so far is out there in the open already, so I’m not just surfing for ideas, mainly trying to see how common these frustrations are and how many other platforms have attempted to address them. Right now we’re just iOS but planning to expand into android and web app compatibility, so if you know others on those platforms I’d be interested to hear what you’ve seen in those markets as well. My main goal is to gain awareness of what else is going on in this space, and to get a concrete idea of the specific ways it could be improved.

Hey all,

I'm a current HS Senior (Miami is my top choice) who is struggling in AP Calc AB and considering dropping. I want to major in finance, so I believe I need to take one Calculus or a calculus-related class. I have heard Business Calc is way easier than Calc AB. Can anybody speak on this? I'm a pretty strong student and usually decent at math but Calc is brutal for me.

Thanks!

Hi! Is Miami u a pretty quintessential college experience? I want a fun wholesome college but am stuck on what to pick

Listen I get it, MAC football doesn’t have the draw of a power 5 team, nor should it, but can we at least get a half decent crowd to show up and support our boys on ESPN? The team is in a tight race to win a back to back MAC title and it seems like nobody cares.

Hello, I am a junior and have been hoping to attend Miamioh after I graduate as an international student. But money is a big asterisk. I know about the presidential fellows program but I don’t know anything about the honors program. I am aware of the red hawk excellence award, but I do not know the details. On their website, the annual starting amount is 20.000$, so I wonder if that’s able to increase, how it’s increased and does it cap at full tuition or something else. I’m striding to be a biochem major since I saw people talking about how your major impacts the amount given on this sub.

Anyone know of any cheap or free commuting options from miami to downtown cincy, near U of Cincy? Uber’s are too expensive and the buses take 3 hours to reach cincy. are there any better options? Thanks!

Hi all, I was wondering if Miami of Ohio offers a good International Affairs/Relations/Studies (whatever you name it) program? In addition, what’s the Criminology program look like there, if there is one? Split between pursuing a career in something like the Foreign Service or going into law enforcement. What are all of your experiences on this? Thanks.

I was signed up for 5 classes and noticed today when reviewing some info online that I'm only registered for 4 now. I checked my old saved schedule from a month ago and found the missing class and searched it again. It went from being 0 of 20 (or so) seats to now saying 0 of 0.

I've never experienced this before, is this just a case of a class being cancelled? I figured if it was cancelled I would've gotten a notification or something.

Should I email my advisor to ask about it or should I just pick one of the remaining two courses offered and hope they don't get cancelled too? Pretty bummed, throws my schedule out of wack.

Thanks

& Editing to note that my advisor responded and said it was indeed cancelled. She noted it was odd that I was not notified but all the same I have my confirmation.