<p>I am a transfer student who wishes to live in a single in a gothic house next year. How desirable is such a spot? Does anyone have advice to offer regarding the housing lottery?</p>
<p>I wouldn't want to live in a gothic personally. look nice on the outside but not so much on the inside. i guess it could be cool. if you are set on living on west look at one of the new places...</p>
<p>Thanks for the info Jason,</p>
<p>I plan on taking a tour of the gothics before attempting to live there. The new West building are very nice. </p>
<p>Anyways, I got a 6:30AM March 5th lotto slot. What does that mean?</p>
<p>Where do we sign up for the housing lottery?</p>
<p>I heard some of the gothics are pretty decent actually. The tour would be the best way to get an idea of whether or not you'd want to live there.</p>
<p>The lottery time is when you log online to select your room. March 5th at that time is awesome, you probably have first choice.</p>
<p>You sign up for lottery online at housing.cornell.edu</p>
<p>I lived in north baker my soph year and baker tower my junior year. they were very good experiences, and undoubtedly spoiled me for when I moved off campus this year. My rooms were huge, extremely big, big enough to fit my futon among everything. My room in baker tower had a non-functional fire place and a 23sqft closet which is probably 3x the size of normal. Although not all rooms are like this, it's not hard to find rooms of similar quality (all rooms in gothics are DIFFERENT).</p>
<p>Cons:
For North Baker, Baker Tower, and Boldt Tower:
No elevator, no cable (not from TWC anyway), share a less than decent bathroom with 6-12 people depending on your location, have to go on a meal plan. I don't know when South Baker, Mennen, Lyon, McFadden will get added to a house, but when they do, they will have to go on meal plans as well.</p>
<p>Pros:
-if you find someone you like, for your time slot you can EASILY get a 3 room double (you only pay for a double, even though most likely you and your roomie will get a single). In fact, I know the one in Baker Tower has a very nice view as well and has a fireplace in the middle room. There are quite a bit of 2 room doubles as well. You will never find that in one of the new buildings.
-you will be living somewhere you know will NEVER get torn down, when you come back for reunion years from now. That's no garauntee for any of the new dorms being built.</p>