<p>Hi, everyone! Welcome to college! Life is tough for us BU kids...Sometimes we have to live in small rooms! Sometimes we have mice! Air conditioning is hard to find! Walking for 15 minutes is hard! Lots of girls go here!</p>
<p>Guys, seriously...to each his own but in my humble opinion BU housing is pretty baller. I've lived in the Hyatt, Sleeper Hall, Warren Towers, 509 Park Drive (apartment in South), 180 Bay State, and this year in the Student Village. I have had problems with exactly none of them. Our dorms are definitely not disgusting. That said, I'm pretty easy going. But I've said it before...every freshmen dorm at every college in the country features the same small box-like rooms, paper-thin walls, and no air conditioning. But I feel like most people if asked what they remember about dorm life will say "I've met so many cool people, I met my best friend there, it's so social, my floormates hang out all the time...etc etc" rather than "It got effing hot in the summer" or "I hated walking to class." </p>
<p>You will not be the coolest freshman ever if you live in an apartment. You will probably be the loneliest/hungriest freshman ever. Unless of course, you're good at making friends in other places. But then you were probably pretty cool to begin with. If you do get placed in an apartment...get a dining plan if you can afford one. Dining halls are some of best places to meet/hang out with people from class etc.</p>
<p>It's cliche, but...college living is what you make it. If you get in some housing you really hate, you can direct swap. But reallllllly give it a chance. You will learn more about yourself and others while living in a small room than you probably will in your first year of classes. It's worth enduring limited personal space for the experience. College isn't about comfort 24/7. It's about people. I promise. </p>
<p>and sorry...couldn't resist the sarcasm. :)</p>
<p>Hyatt has been used for transfers and upper classmen who are going off campus - overseas, etc. - second term. </p>
<p>Compared to many large schools, BU has a wider variety of housing. Some people love the big freshman dorms and others hate them. </p>
<p>Piece of advice for the future: you'll get a housing number for choosing in the future, meaning you'll pick somewhere in order within your class. You'll be rushed, really pushed to decide in a few seconds, so prepare by asking people (BUnite, etc.) about good & bad places before your time. You can check floor plans in the housing office.</p>
<p>east tower got renovated, west tower is getting renovated this summer (95% sure bcuz bu had already contracted it)</p>
<p>who knows the odds of you getting a brownstone, if you really want it (and i REALLY advise against it) then put different brownstone areas, like bay state and south, as your top choices b/c there are always random freshman placed in empty slots in the brownstones, but no guarantees.</p>
<p>I'm not dying to get a brownstone, just curious what the odds would be. Why are you strongly against me wanting a brownstone? The anti-social aspect of a brownstone?</p>
<p>I'd be perfectly satisfied with the renovated Towers' rooms! I wonder how they look like. Everything is new? Furniture, bed, etc? Anyone have pictures of the renovated rooms?</p>
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LOL i'm at work right now in photonics and this made me laugh out loud, eliciting several weird stares from my co-workers... </p>
<p>anyways, it is pretty hard to get into a brownstone as a sophomore unless you get a really nice lottery number. i had an average one in the middle and basically the only dorms left were west, warren and towers if you wanted to live with your roommate. or you could choose to be random placed with other people in a brownstone, but eh... </p>
<p>i HIGHLY HIGHLY HIGHLY recommend summer swap if you aren't pleased with your rooming choice. you have a great chance to get into a much better dorm. i was doomed to live at west this year, til i got two adjoining singles in south campus! :) </p>
<p>i'm thinking stuvi next year if i don't make RA - perhaps this will force me to go to the gym more. but i do have core in smg next semester, where i will probably be camping out there.... hmm. is it easy for a senior to get into stuvi, esp with stuvi 2 opening in the fall?</p>
<p>stuvi 1 is jrs and srs only, stuvi2 is sophs, jrs, srs and is both suite and apt style, so it might be easier but who knows</p>
<p>kevster: yes, brand new furniture, rooms are carpeted, blinds instead of curtains, wardrobes (which is a downgrade cuz the closets were much bigger), etc. the beds are all lofted and are on built-in rackraisers so you can unloft your bed and don't need to buy rackraisers either. ive seen the coolest set-ups on my floor bcuz theres so much you can do with having the option to loft or unloft your bed. i don't have pics because i have a single and its different than the other rooms.</p>
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<p>I do need to respond...DD is a student at a college on the opposite coast from BU. Her dorms were NOT cement blocks, did not have paper thin walls, and all were airconditioned (in a climate that really didn't NEED AC). And her rooms both freshman and sophomore year (both buildings housed freshmen...) were about double the size of the rooms on West Campus. She had a walk-in closet her freshman year.</p>
<p>Now...having said all that...don't let the dorm rooms affect your decision about BU. It's a great school. DS lived on West Campus for two years and the only "problem" he had was that the heat was inconsistent. On some winter days, his rooms were sweltering and on others they were not warm at all. BUT he liked living there, liked the location near Shaws, and liked being near CFA which was where he spent most of his time. He lived off campus his last two years (why anyone would do that with the Student Village is beyond me...but he did) and his apartment bedroom was much smaller than his dorm room. BUT it was a single. He met tons of wonderful people on West Campus and the second year, his whole wing of his floor were friends who signed on to live in the same place. </p>
<p>And as mentioned...the West Campus dining hall is nice..and good.</p>
<p>LIVE IN WARREN TOWERS. I am a freshman currently living in warren towers and I love it. It's close to everything and the T stops right outside of the building. It's perfect freshman living. Yes the rooms are a little small but they are fine, its freshman living. I live on a specialty floor and I would definitely recommend it if it is available to any of you/your children. If you have any specific questions, feel free to send me a PM.</p>
<p>AliAngel - do lots of upperclassmen live in Towers? I know it's mostly sophomores and some freshmen. Is it common to see Juniors and Seniors living there?</p>
<p>Is Towers a good dorm for freshman who want to meet people but not party too much? I've heard Warren is crazy, but is Towers like that as well? I want a more quieter dorm...</p>
<p>towers is definitely more quiet because the floors are all single sex, but its also very easy to make friends and socialize with the opp sex (theyre right upstairs and right downstairs)
warren towers is a zoo (though FUN! LOVED it my freshman year!) but towers isn't anywhere near that.</p>
<p>i would def suggest warren for your freshman year if you don't mind a bit of noise. it's really the only "freshman experience" haha - perhaps over at west too if you want a more small campus style living (though inconvienent, because it's far from everything except sha, cgs, and cfa). it's easy access to EVERYTHING (dhall, laundry, mail, computer lab/printing, study areas, classes, the T stops) and probably alot of your classmates are living in ONE of the 3 towers. i really want to be an RA at warren next year - in midst of applying - so maybe i'll see you all around :)</p>