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<\/a>As one of the largest campuses in the United States, Michigan State offers plenty to do and see right on campus. The\u00a0Wharton Center<\/a> provides a range of arts and entertainment, including Broadway shows, opera, touring comedians, and homegrown MSU productions. Fine art and history are on display at the\u00a0Broad Art Museum <\/a>and the\u00a0MSU Museum<\/a>, Michigan\u2019s largest public museum of natural history and culture. Concerts often fill the\u00a0Breslin Center<\/a> with nearly as much noise as the MSU basketball games. With 23 varsity sports teams, there\u2019s always an opportunity to Go Green, and the\u00a0Rec Sports <\/a>department provides plenty of ways to get in the action yourself through intramural sports, fitness classes, and exercise facilities.\u00a0 And on top of all of that, the\u00a0MSU Dairy Store<\/a> sells over 40 flavors of tasty, old fashioned ice cream made right on campus by the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources.<\/p>\n There are many great options for housing around MSU.\u00a0 Affordable apartments and houses within walking and biking distance can be found in both Lansing and East Lansing.\u00a0 Check out\u00a0Craigslist<\/a> or MSU\u2019s\u00a0off campus housing page<\/a> for more information.\u00a0 If you want to stay in thick of things, there are also\u00a0on campus options <\/a>such as apartments in Spartan Village and Owen Hall.<\/p>\n Getting around campus and the Greater Lansing Area is made easy with the award-winning\u00a0CATA transportation service<\/a>, which offers student bus passes and a full complement of campus friendly routes. MSU has also been designated a Bike Friendly Campus and offers a\u00a0full service bike repair, rentals, and sales shop<\/a>.<\/p>\n From the array of shops and restaurants along the north side of campus to farmers\u2019 markets and foodie havens such as\u00a0Soup Spoon<\/a> in Lansing\u2019s Eastside, there\u2019s a lot going on around MSU.\u00a0 Greater Lansing is known as Michigan\u2019s Festival Capital, with great events throughout the year such as the Great Lakes Folk Festival, East Lansing Art Festival, and the Moonlight Film Festival.\u00a0 Michigan is also home to an active craft beer scene with at least 142 local breweries, many of which are within an easy drive of Lansing or worth the trip further afield.<\/p>\n Sports fans can enjoy the Lansing Lugnuts minor league baseball games or the newly anointed Lansing franchise in the National Premier Soccer League.\u00a0 The Lansing River Trail provides 14 miles of woodland and riverside pathway through the city and campus, and it also swings by the\u00a0Potter Park Zoo<\/a>.\u00a0 Additionally, there are numerous state and local parks in the area offering hiking, canoe and kayaking, and mountain biking, and the sand dunes and beaches on the Lake Michigan shoreline 1.5 hours west are some of the Midwest\u2019s best kept secrets.<\/p>\n Thinking about school districts? East Lansing Schools is a district that prides itself on excellence. They accept only the highest quailty of teachers and staff. East Lansing High School is currently ranked in the top 3 percent of public schools in the nation by US News and World Report. Your child(ren) will also have the opportunity to learn amongst a very highly diverse school, where students are from all corners of the world! East Lansing also works with MSU and hosts many student-teaching interns every year.<\/p>\nLiving<\/b><\/h3>\n
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