<p>personally, i used pass/fail as a way of allowing me to take five classes a term while retaining my sanity.</p>
<p>most people try not to take classes within their concentration pass/fail or classes that are particularly important for grad schools (pre-med requirements).</p>
<p>the idea of the option is to encourage people to take classes at a high level that they might not have otherwise.</p>
<p>i actually think its god sent</p>
<p>Actually it's a human concept.</p>
<p>how is housing at brown? what is the room and bathroom situation like? Did you and your roommate decide on who would bring certain things? which is the preferred/most popular first year resident hall(s)?</p>
<p>housing at brown is alright, but it varies considerably from giant rooms with walk-in closets, apartment-style suites with kitchens, fireplaces, etc. to tiny nooks.</p>
<p>most first years live in doubles either in keeney or on pembroke. andrews hall (pembroke) is great because the rooms have their own sink (this seems like a tiny thing but it's highly appreciated my most of the people that live there). keeney rooms are average in spaciousness, but the halls are extremely social and i think most people prefer to live there. keeney is also closer to the main green.
first years that live in hope college (a building that is well over 200 years old) are right on the main green, as are first years in littlefield hall. first years in perkins are the farthest away from everything but the dorm is more "homey" and everyone that lives there ends up being really close (there is some statistic about how many perkinites end up getting married)</p>
<p>most people contact their roommate (randomly assigned) and coordinate who'll bring things that it doesn't make sense to have two of (fridge, tv, etc).</p>
<p>there are some short descriptions of these places here
<a href="http://www.brown.edu/Administration/ResLife/halls/index.html%5B/url%5D">http://www.brown.edu/Administration/ResLife/halls/index.html</a></p>
<p>do first-years pick where we live, or do we get randomly assigned to a building?</p>
<p>it's more or less randomly assigned, you can be specially accomodated but you have to make a really strong case (like you are a celebrity and need extra security or require handicap access)</p>
<p>you also fill out a survey in the spring that helps them match you with a roommate but it is very general and has to do with smoking preferences, studying habits, etc.</p>
<p>darn, i really want to live in keeney...i was hoping you could say your first choice or something...oh well, hopefully luck will work in my favor :)</p>
<p>Are there bars, music and dance clubs?</p>
<p>I'm at Tulane now, and that's where most of the social scene takes place (except for frat parties) and I would certainly miss them.</p>
<p>hey dcircle! Thanks for helping me out .....</p>
<p>I took my intro calc class Pass/Fail because its one of a few classes offered at Brown that's mandatory pass/fail. Now if I had to option to take calc either graded or pass/fail, I'd probably still take it pass/fail because I just hate math. </p>
<p>Yes, there are lively bars and clubs right on Thayer Street which is literally two feet off of Brown's Campus. They are great places and really gives a collegetown feel or aura to the campus. Note though, most of these places are 21+, so if you are underaged and don't have a fake, then not having access to this scene kind of sucks. However, Brown has a lot of on-campus parties (mostly dorm parties) on Saturday nights which can easily keep you occupied. I don't know the relation of the number parties at Brown to Tulane however...</p>
<p>Keep them coming yall... its a one time opportunity.</p>
<p>Are fakes common? I mean nobody, nobody cards in New Orleans. </p>
<p>Is the social life good at Brown, or is it all study, study, study. </p>
<p>Overall, how well do you like Brown?</p>
<p>How's Brown's computer science? I'm impressed by the Tetris building I saw in the viewbook, but what else? Thanks, and happy holidays!</p>
<p>Umm the TechHouse actually converted the SciLi to a Tetris game, so the Tetris building you saw was the Science Library. Computer Science as a whole is good, and they have a really good faculty, though a lot of them work in the Graphics Lab. The course I took was taught well, and umm at least I enjoyed the more algorithmic emphasis (OK it warns you that it is the more algorithmic of the two intro courses), and umm well it's rather fun to be associated with the CS department, there are perks as some of my friends would put it :)</p>
<p>Aurojit</p>
<p>Has any of you had the pizza in the automatic pizza machines? Is it good?</p>
<p>Yeah... It's not bad surprisingly. I had the four cheese pizza for $5. Of course, I ate the pizza around 3 am after not eating anything all day. So, I don't really know if the pizza was good because I was just plain hungry or if it was good based on its own merit.</p>
<p>Do you have any experience with spending summers at Brown. If so, can you tell me how the summer experience and student population varies from during the school year? For instance, I've heard that a very specific 'type' of student stays for the summer and the student body as a whole has a very different feel during the regular semester.</p>
<p>Also, what is Thayer Street like in the winter? It was packed with people crowding the sidewalks summer. Does it lose some of its character in the winter? Do most Brown students just stay inside all winter?</p>
<p>Thanks, Brown ppl, for answering our questions. :) My picture of Brown has become more vivid.</p>