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Summerfest is known as the "World's Largest Music Festival", and it's held right here in Milwaukee! The festival is held along the lakefront at the Henry Maier Festival Park, and runs from June 27th to July 1st, and July 3rd to July 8th, giving you plenty of time to check out all the fun! You can find out ticket information  here . You can even get free admission from 12:00 to 3:00 p.m. on Friday, June 29th, if you're wearing your UWM t-shirt or hat, so make sure to show your Panther Pride! From noon to midnight, on 11 different stages, you can go see more than 800 bands, including at the 23,000 seat American Family Insurance Amphitheater. This year, Summerfest has some amazing performers, from Imagine Dragons to Blake Shelton, and Halsey to Def Leppard. You can view the full lineup  here . But, it gets even better - Summerfest has an array of food and beverage vendors as well, including Milwaukee favorites like Belair Cantina and Chubby's Cheesesteaks. You ca...

At University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, first-year students can either live in the traditional towers at Sandburg (North, South, and West), or at one of our south-campus options, Cambridge Commons. North, South, and West Towers at Sandburg Residence Hall were built in 1970. The towers are identical in floor/suite layout and house lounges. At Sandburg, residents have the option of a single, double, or triple room. Because of this, each suite will have four to five people, and each suite has its own bathroom, so residents are only sharing with their suitemates, and not their floor. Below are the different floor plans of Sandburg suites. At Sandburg, there will be 13 LLC's, or Living Learning Communities, where everyone on the floor will have the same major or interest! For the upcoming 2018-2019 year, those LLC's will be: American Sign Language, Architecture II, Business Panthers, Community Engagement & Leadership, Cultures & Communities, Engineering, Health Professions, Ho...

Beginning Friday June 8th, room assignments will start going live! Here are some tips to help you understand what everything means. First, you have to log into your myHousing portal, ( uwm.edu/myhousing ) using your ePanther ID and password. On the bottom of your page, you can access your room assignment by clicking on the blue hyperlink. Then, click on your room, and you'll be able to see your roommate(s) and suitemates! The person who has the same letter at the end of their room assignment is your roommate, and the other people are your suitemates. You can then contact your suitemates/roommates via email, to get to know them before move in. You can access any messages you may have by clicking on the link on the left that says My Messages. To understand your room assignment - If you are living in Cambridge Commons, your room number will start with CC. If you are living in Sandburg, the letter will correspond with which tower you are in. N is North, E is East, S is South, and W is ...