<p>Saw some floor plans on Auburn’s website for village housing.</p>
<p>What do the units actually come with?</p>
<p>Is there a refrigerator, microwave provided?</p>
<p>What furniture comes in the living area?</p>
<p>Where are laundry facilities?</p>
<p>Is there a bus stop that will take you to the other side of campus, where the engineering buildings are?</p>
<p>On the Village page and links on the page there is an explanation of furniture included, kitchen things and laundry for the village dorms.
Also, if you do a search for transportation it explains the tiger transit and routes.</p>
<p>Hey there. You’re in luck, I live in Talon Hall currently as a freshman in Materials Engineering.</p>
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<p>It is structured like an apartment would be. You walk in through the front door of your “suite” as they’re called into the common room. On your right are several cabinets, sink, microwave and a fridge (no stove though). You also have 2 large windows in the common room, 2 wooden chairs, a square table, 1 comfy chair and a couch. You share a bathroom with one other person, and outside of the bathroom is the sink and cabinets.</p>
<p>Your actual room is pretty spacious but I don’t know the exact dimensions offhand. The room closer to the bathroom is bigger (by about 2 square feet lengthwise) so I suggest you try and grab one of those if you can. You have a bed (which is actually quite comfy), desk, desk chair, 4 large drawers, a metal bar to hang towels or to put a curtain (don’t know the exact name for this) and one shelf.</p>
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<p>The ground floor directly to the right of the elevator. Men are on 3rd/4th floor, women on 1st/2nd.</p>
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<p>There are a couple close by, yes, although to be honest I don’t use them very much. My farthest class is in Parker Hall, which is a 15 minute walk, and I like walking (weird, I know :P). I generally only use the bus if I need to go off-campus, or to someplace really far away like the medical center (better yet, I just bum rides off my friends that have cars haha).</p>
<p>If you have any questions feel free to email me at <a href=“mailto:fin0001@auburn.edu”>fin0001@auburn.edu</a>. Even though this was my “safety” school I am quite impressed with the quality of my education.</p>
<p>Thank you so much for your helpful posts! Have a great winter break!</p>
<p>fiN01–wonderful, helpful info.! Safety for our son, too, but it just “feels right” at Auburn. So many people are over the top about UGA and we did like it. Son was accepted there, too. I told my kids to ask people about what they like about UGA other than football, party scene 
or the mascot. Those things people go crazy over, but what about important stuff? U. of Michigan seems like that, too. That’s where we came from. (MI)</p>
<p>Our son wanted to stay within 3 hours of home and I really think some people don’t realize how cool Auburn is. We were very pleasantly surprised. Can you elaborate on your impression of the honors program? thanks.</p>
<p>I’m very pleased with the Honors program. During your first semester here you have to take a 1 hour class called “Honors Lyceum” where they basically guide you through all the important stuff related to the program and college as a whole: registering for classes, applying for prestigous scholarships like the Goldwater (they made a big deal about how this year is the first in 30+ years that Auburn has had a Rhodes Scholar), studying abroad, etc. Sometimes they do go a bit overboard with the information, but it’s better than too little I guess. The advisors are very helpful but often very busy, might be a good idea to contact them in advance.</p>
<p>I took 2 honors classes here: Honors Calculus III with Dr. Holmes and Honors Technology and Civilization I with Dr. Beckwith. My Honors classes were definitely more challenging than my non-honors. The honors and non-honors sections use the same textbooks but generally go more in-depth. There are some very bright students in the honors program, one person in my Calc class had a 104 average at the end of the semester! (I ended up with around an 82, and I got an 800 on SAT-Math). So yeah, some high-quality talent here. I’ll be taking 3 more Honors classes and I’ll be done since I got 33 hours of credit from high school (those AP classes are SO worth it).</p>
<p>One thing to keep in mind is that in order to stay in the program (and thus keep your scholarship) you need to maintain a 3.0 GPA freshman year and a 3.2 all other years. Your GPA is evaluated every year, so if you get a 2.8 first semester for example and a 3.2 the next one you’ll be fine. If you get a 2.99 or anything under exactly a 3.0 you’re out, with no chance to ever get back in the program, unless you’re in the co-op program or military. Pretty harsh.</p>