<p>When my friends from state schools visited, they gush over how large and spacious my freshman double was---and it was one of the smallest on campus(Boo for Perkins). </p>
<p>When my friends from comparable schools visit...not so much. </p>
<p>NP and Grad Center just suck and should be replaced. Except they probably won't be for a long time. </p>
<p>I live in Emery this year and it's actually rather nice. The bathrooms are communal in that you don't get one tucked inside your room and you access them from the hallways---but they're single-person use bathrooms and you only share with maybe 3-4 other people. But I prefer it that way--if you get a personal one then you have to clean it on your own...</p>
<p>i guess a lot depends on what your expectations and needs are</p>
<p>for me, one of hte biggest factors was the beds. i have sleep problems, and i can't tell you how much better life is on my queen sized latex bed in my apartment than that shabby piece of awful twin extra long</p>
<p>But Rachel, I've visited many schools and they almost all have that same stupid mattress. There must be one popular company that almost everyone buys that furniture from.</p>
<p>That being said, friends were always impressed with how comfortable my bed was.</p>
<p>Trick is a mattress pad and piece of plywood.</p>
<p>Also, I thought the Keeney closets were huge.</p>
<p>Jason, I can't think of a single college that DOESN'T have those mattresses. I should have been more explicit: one of the main reasons I'm now off-campus is that I can get a proper bed, but that's just me, I'm a bed snob. </p>
<p>I was kind of talking dorm v apartment, and my wish that more dorms were treated like REAL apartments with nice amenities i.e. desks actually big enough to work on, chests of drawers big enough to keep all of your rugby gear AND clothes in, beds big enough to sleep in, common room furniture that isn't horrid, etc, and just more square footage across the board.</p>
<p>yeah but what else can you fit? I had a full in my wayland single but it was very tight. and you had to buy your full...i wish they would just give us decent mattresses is all. This is obviously a hopeless unimportant pipe dream.</p>
<p>My room is about 20 x 10 feet, my guesstimation. Actually 268 sq feet if I remember. It's one of the two CA rooms in New Dorm A. One of them freed up this year and I grabbed it in the housing lottery.</p>
<p>actually it's the biggest single on campus minus what the graduate CA's (whatever they call them now) have. There's an apartment in Machado that's amazing. There's also an apartment in Emery(or is it Woolley?) that is nice but the rooms are crap. It is being used for temp housing now.</p>
<p>^Brown used to be number one but they lost out to Whitman college in Washington. </p>
<p>Actually, I just rechecked the list, and apparently Stanford is now number 1 for happiest students, followed by Whitman College with Brown in 3rd. </p>
<p>Back to the bed discussion-- just back from Parents' Weekend, and we had to get a good memory foam mattress pad for DD's bed. She could feel the springs from the mattress and that is definitely not a good situation. At BB&B in the mall there were many parents buying the same thing. I had thought about getting her a new mattress from Res Life, but then realized that they would all have the same problem. It is small, in the grand scheme of things, I suppose, but a bad bed can really do permanent damage to one's back. I'm with you, Clay! It was a lovely weekend, by the way.</p>
<p>I also had to buy my son a memory foam topper and called Facilities for a bed board. It was much better after that. Agreed Franglish-! This weekend was very nice</p>
<p>It really depends on which dorm you live in. But I've heard that upper classmen dorms are generally worse than freshman dorms. Either way, I think my dorm is decent. I know some dorms (like Prembroke) look way uglier in the inside and outside.</p>