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The University of Florida is located in Gainesville, which is within two hours of Orlando, Tallahassee, Tampa, and Jacksonville and has about 109,000 residents. College students and those associated with the university are a huge part of the city and surrounding area. Students looking to spend some time at the Atlantic and Gulf Coast beaches need only drive east or west for an hour. The region’s favorable climate gives students plenty of incentive to stay outdoors and be active. Pathways for jogging and biking are popular as well as participation in other outdoor sports. Gainesville’s Hippodrome State Theatre offers many films and live shows throughout the season, while several concert series offered by the university add to the list of things to do. In 2007, Gainesville was named one of the “50 Best Places to Live and Play” by National Geographic and Adventure magazine.

The University of Florida has a 2,000-acre campus with more than 900 buildings. General boundaries are Archer Road to the south, SW 13th Street to the east, SW 34th Street to the west, and West university Avenue to the north. The northeast corner of campus is a designated Historic District, with 19 buildings listed on the National Register. Two more recognized buildings sit just outside the District’s boundaries. The athletic facilities including the football stadium are in the northwest portion of the campus. Scenic Lake Alice lies to the southwest, and Shands Hospital anchors the southeastern portion of the campus. Turlington Hall, home to the administrative offices and classrooms of the College of Arts and Sciences, is at the center of campus and the courtyard that sits just outside it is a popular place for students to hang out between classes. The campus also features the Florida Museum of Natural History, art galleries, the Harn Museum of Art, two radio stations – one public, one commercial – and one public TV station.

On-campus housing at the University of Florida runs on a lottery system, but is not guaranteed. Though many students are disappointed if they don’t get their housing preference, they should consider themselves lucky: every year, more students are admitted than there are housing slots and there is always a waiting list. “The residence halls at UF are divided into those on the east side of campus and those on the west side of campus. The halls on the west side of campus tend to be more apartment-style with students having their own rooms and sharing a bathroom with their roommates. Dorms on the east side of campus have community bathrooms where students will share a room with their roommate and then share a common room and bathroom with the rest of their floor. Students who have been at the university longer and have been living in the dorms have higher priority as to where they get to live, so most of the community living dorms are occupied by freshmen. Broward Hall is one of the largest dorms on campus, and reflects the living style of most of the dorms on the east side of campus. Broward is a community-style dorm where students share a room with one or two roommates and share a bathroom with their floor. The bathrooms tend to have three to four toilet stalls and three showers. There is a common area on each floor that includes a table with chairs and kitchen appliances. They generally have an oven, burners, toaster, and microwave oven. Bedrooms usually have two beds, two closets, two dressers, and two desks. Each of the rooms has a telephone line and connections to the internet. On the first floor of Broward Hall is a game room with a TV, couches, ping-pong table, foosball table, and vending machines. On the other side of the lobby, there is a library that has tables and chairs where students can sit and study. The lobby contains students’ mailboxes, a desk manned at all times by a resident assistant, and additional seating. Students hang out in the lobby while waiting for friends, or sit and eat pizza after a night out.” Approximately 7500 students live in on campus at UF. There is also housing for about 1700 married students and their families.

The University of Florida Gators compete at the Division I level of the NCAA and are founding members of the Southeastern Conference. The school has a stellar athletic program overall, and is probably the best in the SEC at this time, with many trophies and awards in recent years. The Gators excel at football and basketball in particular, and these games bring out a ton of fans, students and locals alike. The football stadium, called “The Swamp” is one of the biggest in the country, yet fans never fail to fill it at game time, and their spirit has earned Florida Field the distinction of being one of the loudest stadiums in the country as well. The basketball team is likewise popular and successful. They were SEC champions in 2005 and again in 2006 when they went on to become the first basketball team from Florida to win an NCAA national championship. Among the many other strong teams, women’s basketball has seen recent success and the tennis team is one of the best in the nation. Students as a whole are very much involved in the recreational sports program, and take advantage of the facilities on campus, as well as the outdoor opportunities of the surrounding area. Since 1968, UF athletes have won 69 Olympic medals, 35 of them gold.