Gyms

Over the past two weeks or so I have been searching for a gym to go to, as has become my habit since I was living in new york. I found a couple of sort of cheap gyms in the city, and then some small really expensive ones. Then, I finally went to the massive sport complex at the University. The place is huge, by Israeli standards. One olympic size pool, two smaller pools, full soccer field, two outdoor basketball courts, one indoor basketball arena (I guess for the university team, maybe, and it also doubles as the indoor soccer field). Fairly large and clean/modern gym facility, two large multi-purpose studios, two tennis courts, and even a squash court.
(Check out their website here, and their map here).

I mention this because the site kind of reminds me of RIMAC at UCSD. RIMAC was our sport facility in college, and in retrospect was an absolutely amazing place. I believe it is still the 2nd largest sport facility in the states. Granted, the Israeli counterpart here is significantly smaller and more compact, but so is everything here. The other reason I mention it is because, much like RIMAC, the university facility is open to the public as well (much like campus Libraries are also open to the public). Here is the catch, as a student, I'm paying literally a fourth of the price for the going public. Its exactly 100 shekels a month for me, roughly $22.50, which is fairly cheap (especially for Manhattan prices).