<p>There are no suites for freshmen. There are only doubles. Only doubles. Only doubles. NP4 has a great location, ugly on the outside, but big rooms on the inside, and private bathrooms. I think they renovated it over the summer too.</p>
<p>I don't want to sound heartless, but... I think your first and foremost concern should be what makes you happy. If you don't want sub free, you might not be happy in a sub free dorm, especially since it can create problems in the future. For instance, if you go to your dorm room after drinking or being high or whatever, you could get in trouble.</p>
<p>im pretty sure you could only get in trouble if you came back to your dorm with alcohol or weed on you, not simply drunk or high.</p>
<p>The only real thing is that if you get caught with alcohol in a subfree dorm, you are in really really really deep ****.</p>
<p>asterstar, i'm on the floor of perkins with room numbers beginning with 2. i would say that i'm on the 2nd floor, but i have no idea whether 0 means the basement or ground floor. from the layout of perkins, i'm guessing maybe half of the floor would end up substance free?</p>
<p>and i'm obviously not going to bring alcohol into a subfree dorm... i'm hoping there would only be trouble if i went back to the dorm like drunk off my ass and causing a ruckus in the hallway. which i have no intention of doing.</p>
<p>If you are in substance-free housing, technically neither you, nor your guest can possess or be under the influence of anything while in the dorm. I say technically, because nobody ever follows the substance-free policy.</p>
<p>Even if I didn't drink, the guest rule would really both me. I mean, what if a friend of yours got really drunk and had to be taken care of? Where would you take your friend? It suck to have to not let friends come into your room/dorm.</p>
<p>Hey, I'm in Mead! Anyone else? </p>
<p>And if I were put in sub free, I would be really unhappy. Call reslife.</p>
<p>I don't really think the subfree dorm would be that strict...as in it wouldnt be a big deal if you brought friends that were drunk, or even if you got drunk yourself. I kind of interpreted the policy as simply meaning that there wouldn't be loud drunken parties within the subfree hall.</p>
<p>substance free housing (NP1 and Plantations) is not open to first year students. point blank. and if you plan on being substance free you'll just have to get over the fact that freshman drink and smoke in greater excess than anyone else on campus. not a myth.</p>
<p>as far as your room assignments go, those of you in andrews should thank whatever luck brought you there and everyone else should be jealous. andrews rooms are huge and you have a sink. keeney is ok but i found the rooms cramped and the RCs grumpy (because of so many freshman.) mo-champ/ em-wol is great but you have to bring your own rugs. wayland rooms are beautiful and wayland itself is beautiful. hope is right on campus, advantageous. perkins is far away. and the rooms are small. littlefield, not andrews, is where VIP children stay. jfk jr. etc. littlefield has these amazing azaleas which bloom and are beautiful... during summer. of all the keeneys i liked poland the best. no reason.</p>
<p>friend in NP4: i lived in NP last year and got the most beautiful room on campus. four windows and huge. amazing. i also scored (i.e. failed) in the housing lottery and will be living in NP4 for '05-'06. NPs are great because you can control your own heat (none of this externa-controlled bs everybody else has to deal with.) The building is heinous. Apparently if you stand on the deck (read: concrete) of NP1 and look at NP3 you can see a bear... but only if stoned. or creative. NPs are relatively quiet however, unless you and your cohorts incite your own noise and mayhem. NP2 is quiet dorm and NP1 is substance free. NP3 has no lounge (unless they turned the fishbowl back into a lounge) and NP4 has a private patio (read: concrete) which can be accessed through one of the 200 rooms on the right. NP3 has a supercool deck on its third floor which can be opened if you're nice to Ron, the janitor. Ron is supercool. </p>
<p>that's all for now.</p>
<p>thanks for the tips!</p>
<p>actually, the incoming-student-housing-questionnaire that we all filled out told us to mention if we wanted substance-free housing, and apparently enough people (or their parents) put in such a request that they temporarily designated an additional hallway of perkins as substance-free. (talk about a double whammy.)</p>
<p>that said, i think you're ultimately right: laws don't seem to stop freshmen (and sophomores, and juniors) from having drinking parties, so i doubt that a "substance-free" designation that only applies to one hallway out of six is going to have much an effect.</p>
<p>I can't understand why any kid would allow his parent to watch him fill that form out over his shoulder. Ugh.</p>
<p>Actually, a friend of mine's mother mail the form in for her, but before mailing it in added that she "wanted" to be in a single-sex hallway... luckily my friend also checked the "call me" box, so she just explained to reslife that her form was intercepted.</p>
<p>because the kid has hardcore conservative catholic asian parents who are quite skilled with the guilt trip. plus they're paying.</p>
<p>and asterstar, that's how i interpreted it, too.</p>
<p>parents like that shouldn't be allowed to exist.</p>
<p>Thanks for the NP4 info, wo08!</p>
<p>Does 'private bathroom' mean that each room has its own bathroom, or do a couple of rooms share? And who cleans them?</p>
<p>"parents like that shouldn't be allowed to exist."</p>
<p>Hahaha... yes. I would be so angry if my parents ever tried to pull off something like that. I make this very clear to them, so hopefully they won't ever try.</p>
<p>Hey.. I'm in room 001 in Keeney.. does this seriously mean I'm in the basement? What is the view from the windows??</p>
<p>Private bathroom means that its a bathroom with a toilet and a shower, rather than a room with several toilets and showers. Usually there are a few private bathrooms for a few rooms, depends on the dorm how they are distributed. They are cleaned during the week by custodians.</p>
<p>Hey Rabo, what floor of Mead are you on? I'm going to be the RC on the third floor. I'm not 100% sure, but if the units are the same as last year, 3rd floor Jameson, Mean, Everett, and part of Poland are a unit.</p>
<p>Is there a way to check what room you got online? I have been out of town.</p>