<p>@kbrown8704
There are hotels around campus as well that will be a short walk from campus and might be cheaper. I believe there is a list of them on the UMass website: [UMass</a> Amherst: Robsham Memorial Center for Visitors - Area Lodging](<a href=“Visit : UMass Amherst”>Visit : UMass Amherst)</p>
<p>Honestly, if you can get a ride I would suggest it but depending where you’re from there should be some really early peterpan buses too? I don’t know enough about your particular situation to really give too much advice.</p>
<p>@alaroc
Like samuelLjackson said, a lot of the classes are held at Tobin Hall or at Bartlett. However, if the classes are intro type classes, they can also be in Mahar auditorium, the biggest hall on campus. I find that for classes that are humanities or social sciences (even if psychology is in the college of natural sciences) they tend to be spread around campus compared to the math or science classes, which have their own respective buildings.</p>
<p>@AubreyGustav</p>
<p>If you are a Freshman I believe you are required to live on campus. If not, there are many places that offer off-campus housing, whether through apartments, or sharing living quarters with a family or couple thats offering a room. I suggest you look at this website for umass students: [UMass</a> Off Campus Housing: Home](<a href=“http://www.umoch.org/]UMass”>http://www.umoch.org/)</p>
<p>@powpowman</p>
<p>Transfers from what I have seen have fit well in campus. You might get “sucky housing” (cuz many transfers are placed in Sylvan) because you will be picking later, however several of my friends are transfers, there’s no specific ‘transfer’ housing. There may not be as much support for transfers as for the first years, but from what I have seen many transfers transition well. UMass is what you make of it so much of it depends on you. </p>
<p>As for Greek life, there is certainly a greek presence on campus. Some of the frats and sororities even have their own off-campus housing near the dorms and there are a lot of frat parties. Every beginning of the semester there will be frats and sororities who are looking for new members for rushing. In the beginning of the year there should be an extracurricular fair, most of greek life will have a station where you can ask questions and get information about events they are hosting in attempts of recruiting.</p>
<p>I’m personally not in greek life so I cannot tell you the ins and outs but this is what I know.</p>
<p>@msritasm I just checked the floor plans for Kennedy and James and they’re both the same kind of room, Z-rooms. Personally I have mixed feelings about Z-rooms because you can kind of have your own individual space, but they’re not equal in size (so if you get the smaller side its kind of a bummer). Kennedy would probably be more ‘happening’ since its a tower. Where there’s so many people together, there’s bound to be more parties, etc. </p>
<p>James is a low rise, so there’s only 4 floors. This can mean that there will probably be greater attempts at establishing a community at James since there is less people compared to Kennedy. I live in a low-rise and I liked it but people like the party central-ness of the towers too. Just know that there are only three elevators in the towers, and there are 22 floors lol. So keep that in mind. I suggest if you are going to live in a tower to look for floors that have your gender (since I believe they are same sex) and laundry on the same floor. As for the people, I don’t know how I’m supposed to judge that. ._.</p>
<p>@littleasiandavid</p>
<p>The big lecture bio classes will most definitely be held in Mahar, and if not, in Hasbrouck or Morrill. I suggest if you are a bio major to live in Central or Northeast. If you live any where else, you’ll have more of a hike (you can always take the bus but still). I had friends who were pre-med majors and lived in SW, and they always had to walk all the way to the northeast/central area for their classes. There is a bus you can take but yeah, its probably more convenient to live in Central/NE than SW or Orchard Hill.</p>