<p>Does anyone have information on Beaumont Dorm or any of the healthy living sections in the traditional or modern dorms? Thanks.</p>
<p>I'm in beau right now, it's a great place. The people are friendly, and I feel that it is easier to bond with your floor in a traditional residence hall setting. At the moment all 3 floors of beaument are subfree. However, I've heard that next year, there will not be entire subfree floors, just a subfree floor in each dorm.</p>
<p>Great dorm with great people. Like stated, the entire dorm is usually sub-free.</p>
<p>If you're on a substance free floor, I think you'll enjoy the same or quite possibly a greater level of floor cohesion than non sub-free floors. That is because many of the residents choose not to drink often, or at all, and the RAs are pushed to plan more creative and fulfilling programs.</p>
<p>However, it's a different type of community. The partying won't be as heavy and perhaps there will be more shy / quiet kids on sub-free floors.</p>
<p>Wondering how to ask this tactfully, but here goes.......is it a dorm for nerds and geeks?</p>
<p>From what I found out when I was there, the people in the subfree dorms are cool, but there is a social stigma associated with living there, so if you're concerned about your popularity at WashU taking a hit, you might want to avoid it.</p>
<p>srunni, can you elaborate on that a bit? What kind of social stigma? You sense that living on a subfree floor or subfree dorm could affect one's popularity? Thanks for your input!</p>
<p>Yes, that's the gist of it from what I heard (I was at WashU for Multicultural Weekend, so I don't know that much about it). Basically, there's a stereotype that they are uptight/boring/nerdish. My host's roommate said that the people in Beaumont were cool, but a lot of people didn't think that way about them, and that it might be something to consider before choosing a subfree dorm. Though I'm sure there are plenty of people who don't stereotype like that, and they're arguably the people that you would want to be friends with.</p>
<p>You should note that WashU has a very lenient alcohol policy, so if you're staying in a non-subfree dorm, you may see drinking going on. I stayed in Lien for MW, and though I didn't see any drinking, my host's suitemate did come back totally smashed last night, and I heard him retching in the bathroom for about an hour.</p>
<p>Yeah, srunni pretty much said what I was thinking. I was at MW too, and I stayed at Beaumont. I visited the kids at Lee, Lien and Gregg, and the type of kids that live in those dorms are relatively different from the kids at Beaumont. The kids at Beau were pretty awesome and down to earth, but it's just a different mindset there. They are very close and it is pretty communal, but the sub-free people seemed really tame compared to some of the people I met in other dorms. This is all a generalization, of course. There are always your exceptions.</p>
<p>Thanks all! I have heard that Beaumont will not be a subfree dorm next year --instead it will have subfree floors like the other dorms. That may help remove the stigma attached to going subfree. It also depends on whether or not residential requests are granted!</p>
<p>I love beaumont and if anyone is upset about it no longer being a completely sub free dorm...you can blame it on me...the only thing about beau is that it definitely separates you from some of the socialness and makes you feel not as good about your grades cause it seems like everyone studies more and gets better grades as a whole</p>
<p>The people in Beau are really cool. The rooms are kind of crappy though, especially if you get a small triple. Our room is so small you can barely breathe. I'd rather pick a modern just for comfort.</p>
<p>At least in Beau the walls aren't made out of paper</p>
<p>Moderns are nice. Beaumont is kinda hit or miss; you got some weird kids, you got some cool kids. There's no common room though, which I think is a big deal.</p>
<p>moderns are very nice in fact. sub-free dorms end up being very within themselves because most of the people don't go out and party so they get to know their floor/dorm very well. And there is an initial stigma against sub-free floors if you tell people (aka the heavy partiers) that you are but if you get to know these people then they get over that fact that you don't drink</p>
<p>i don't know if this is true for most people that live in subfree, but when i stayed for discovery weekend, our subfree hosts were very uptight and looked down on me and the other prefroshs that wanted to go out. a girl from across the hall took us out, but our hosts were kind of mad</p>
<p>Sub-free or not, I met some of the WU students who live at Beaumont-2 a couple of weekends ago–Such a wonderful groups of residents, and oh so nice!
My S (the resident advisor) loves Beaumont and the kids that live there. He has lived in both modern and traditional dorms, and sub-free or not, he has nothing but great things to say about Beaumont residents!!!!</p>
<p>I stayed at Beaumont for the celebration weekend, and I have to say that the dorms are much much much worse than the modern ones. Hallways were extremely cramped, and I wasn't much of a fan of community bathrooms. The entire place gave you a kind of gloomy and dingy feeling. </p>
<p>however, I must say that the people there are absolutely exceptional. The people I stayed with informed me that I lived on one of the smartest floors on campus. The top scorers are always on that floor and everyone rank well above the average scores of the class. The people I stayed with all had straight A's. If you strive for a learning environment, Beaumont is probably the best place to be. You'd get lots of help with homework and tests if you decide to live there. </p>
<p>And I actually did not know that it is sub-free. I heard people in Beaumont got wasted anyway...</p>