<p>Which are the best dorms and why?!</p>
<p>I really like Manzanita. Although its considered “anti-social” because your key only works for your designated house, you really get to meet and merge with a large number of people in a small house. </p>
<p>Plus the rooms are huge! (especially corner rooms)</p>
<p>FT for the smokers</p>
<p>depends on what you want, ft is generally where more dorm parties happen because its harder to enforce (youll find it in everydorm though), the 5 on campus (san nic, anacapa, santa cruz, santa rosa, and san miguel) are convinient because they are on campus and close to to the beach
and manzinita has a quiet reputation because fewer people live in each building than in a dorm, and you can only get into your building, so you may only see 50 people walking around rather than a few hundred, but its also right next to iv, do dont think its anti social, i have a friend who lived there last year and he was plenty social</p>
<p>small things to consider about each dorm:</p>
<p>anacapa: you only have about a 15% chance of an ocean view, so dont count on it
santa cruz: closest to campus point beach
san nic: in between dlg and ortega dining halls (breakfast isnt served in dlg excpet on weekends for brunch)
san mig: boys and girls have rooms on seperate floors, i dont get why
santa rosa: no too much to say, its the same layout as anacapa and santa cruz
manzinita: nicest rooms, carillo dining is good, close to iv, but will probably meet fewer people
ft: crazy crazy fun, tons of people, but its also far from campus (walking to the beach from ft is different from walking to the beach from manzinita)</p>
<p>hope that helps, lots of opinion stuff in there, but i try to not bias it, really its up to you, and youll probably like where ever you end up</p>
<p>by the way, ft is now santa catalina, but people still call it ft, administrators are working really hard to phase the name ft out</p>