<p>Ok, so it looks like OSU is going to be one of my final college choices and it is starting to come down to the wire.</p>
<p>I got into the honors college, but I dont think I want to stay in the honors dorm. (doesnt osu have more than one honors dorm?)
Just seems too quiet and on the studying side. IDK, I could use the library if I want to do that. </p>
<p>But I dont think I want a complete party 24/7, people screaming at 5 AM type of dorm either. </p>
<p>So, any recommendations? I would kind of like a balance, but I wouldnt mind having more fun/social dorm than a studying one. (I just realized that made absolutely no sense, but Id like a more social/fun dorm overall).</p>
<p>Location hmmm I am not really sure. Being by the Oval would be cool. I am going to be a business major, so maybe by that side of campus.
But Im not sure that really matters, I guess being centrally located would be a plus, but not a must. </p>
<p>I was also invited in the Honors program and I feel the exact same way that you do. My brother was in the Scholars program and was in a scholars dorm. He said it was the perfect balance between having fun and studying, and that they are some of the best located dorms. But I don’t know if Honors students are allowed to stay in the Scholars dorms. Is there somebody that can answer that for me?</p>
<p>I lived in Siebert last year (one of the four honors dorm) and trust me, honors students party just as much as non-honors students and the honors dorms really aren’t any quieter, unless you live in one of the freshman four (Smith, Steeb, Stradley, Park) which always have a party reputation.</p>
<p>The reason I think it’s a good idea to live in honors is it’s a LOT easier for you to meet other honors students. You’ll decide to take some of your honors classes with these people and it’ll be easier to study with them.</p>
<p>If you really don’t want to live in honors though, I personally think Baker East/West and Mack are the nicest freshman dorms on campus. Both are on south campus, which has a reputation for being more social. Mack is the oldest dorm on campus and has a certain charm to it, while Baker is right next to the Union/South Oval/Oval and is relatively new.</p>
<p>I don’t think there are any dorms that are strictly scholars, so honors students can live in them.</p>
<p>If you want to be close to your classes, the business school is on North Campus and the walking distance from the north campus dorms is only like 5-10 min, whereas its about 15-20 min from south campus.</p>
<p>Most of the dorms on North Campus are dedicated to scholars students (mainly freshmen) and upperclassmen, while the freshman dorms are on south campus. South campus has the reputation for being more social, but that’s just because thats where the freshmen/off campus apartments are. (Lots of parties). People on North Campus can easily go to south campus if they want to have a good time, but North Campus students will tend to focus on school more than South Campus students.</p>
<p>These are are generalizations, the advice I got is that you should just pick the dorms that are closer to your classes, because there will be every type of person at every dorm. Remember the freshman class size is 6000 lol. </p>
<p>Source: My friend who’s currently an OSU Junior</p>
<p>I’m a business major in Honors, so I should probably start by saying that I’ve had a really great experience at OSU and in Fisher, and I hope you will too.</p>
<p>I lived in Lincoln, the honors dorm on West, my freshman year, and I would have been happy to live there again had I remained in the dorms. </p>
<p>Of the people I lived with, there were people who were very into partying, those who seemed to never venture out of their rooms, as well as a lot of people in between.</p>
<p>My suite went out pretty frequently, but we were also serious students, so I had both people to go to house parties with, and people I could study with. Most of the other five suites on the floor were social too, and we would hang out in other people’s common rooms, watch movies, go out to dinner, etc. </p>
<p>My experience was that, while you may do more partying on South campus, you won’t get bored in an honors dorm. You’ll find people into what you’re into wherever you live. </p>
<p>Having frequently-drunk roommates is also less fun than it initially seems.</p>