A2 Exploration Cult

The A2 Exploration Cult is a student organization that provides the unique experience that combines exploring the Ann Arbor area and the University of Michigan campus, and a cult-like experience with special titles and more. Most of the images you'll see on this website are photos taken by members!

Exploration

We will be sending a survey asking where members would like to explore. In the past we have explored campus buildings, the arb, some historical places, and tunnels 🤔. We can even explore bell towers (with permission) so feel free to suggest anything! TLDR; as long as it doesn't break laws and we have permission for places that need it, we can go there!

Titles as a Cult

The Great Leader believes in title inflation. Therefore, you may request any pretentious and unique title. We will be attaching a title form on the website soon, which can be found on the discord server. The guidelines for requesting titles are on the form, but probably the most notable thing to consider is nothing offensive. This hopefully should be common sense.

A "pretentiousness" ranking made by The Emperor (who we will refer to as The Great Leader)

Cult-ish things

We plan on acquiring equipment such as LED candles or cloak costumes to make our activities have the ✨cult✨ vibes.

Possible Projects?

We are working on/contributing to projects that are quasi-relevant to exploration such as OpenStreetMap on campus, 3D mapping campus using OpenStreetMap, attempting to take photos from the sky without using drones (as they're banned) and more! If you have any other projects related to exploration that you want to work on with people, this is the place to do that!

(Photo taken by Matias Kotlik, one of our amazing photographers! )

Misc.

In the past, cult members have done other fun activities together such as lightsaber dueling in the diag and Geocaching. In addition, cult members have participated in snow-ball fights on campus! You are welcome to suggest anything and invite members to do such activities on the Discord server as well.