From daytime decisions like coffee stops to the nightly deliberation of which downtown club to hit first, living in Gainesville means making some tough choices.
For new students, the city's vast array of bars, restaurants and other venues are too broad to single out a favorite, and age-old UF campus debates feel impossible to answer. But not to worry, you'll find your go-tos soon enough.
The Alligator staff, composed entirely of UF and Santa Fe College students, knows a thing or two about Gainesville favorites. These polls chart our answers to some of the most contested questions across campus, through the city and beyond.
Heather Bushman is a fourth-year journalism and political science student and the enterprise elections reporter. She previously wrote and edited for the Avenue desk and reported for WUFT News. You can usually find her writing, listening to music or writing about listening to music. Ask her about synesthesia or her album tier list sometime.