<p>Can someone give their spiel about the dorms at BU?</p>
<p>I’m looking specifically into Warren Towers or Towers (closest to my school).</p>
<p>Warren Towers:
-One of the dining halls is in warren, but it’s the worst dining hall on campus. If you don’t mind walking outside for a few minutes in the cold during the winter to the best dining hall on campus, live in Towers.
-Freshmen everywhere. If you want to meet other freshmen, go to Warren. Towers is the go-to for sophomores but there are freshmen.
-Close to CAS and ENG, not far of a walk from Sargent College or SMG.
-Very far from fitrec. I always have to walk or try to catch the crammed BU shuttle.
-T stops right in front of Warren, but that’s also the same for most dorms on campus.
-Kinda old… not much renovations. There was leakage recently. </p>
<p>Towers:
-Near the best dining hall on campus, and near Kenmore Square, SMG, etc.
-More quiet than Warren. Social life on floor is either hit or miss.
-Tour groups go into the West Tower I think. Try to request the tower that tour groups don’t go into.
-Nice study lounges and music practice room hours are much longer than Warren’s
-Also old and not much renovation. Don’t get the top floors since there will be leakage. </p>
<p>Honestly both are solid choices. If you want to make a good group of friends, try to apply for specialty residence housing, otherwise try to socialize with your floor by keeping your door opened and stuff. </p>
<p>Hope this helps! If you have any questions feel free to message me.</p>
<p>@orangebanana thank you so much!!!</p>
<p>Do you know how people like Towers though? I’ve heard many mixed feelings about it.</p>
<p>Yeah it’s pretty much mixed feelings. Just try not to get one of the top floors and avoid the tower with tour groups. Other than that, your experience is really what you make of it. </p>
<p>Towers is mixed, Warren offers a more traditional feel for a freshman dorm, it’s probably 90% freshman. When I was in freshman year, I would estimate that about 50% of people lived in Warren, about 40% in one of the three west campus dorms (my personal favorite though admittedly farther away if you’re in CAS), and 10% scattered throughout other dorms. I only met one or two people that had asked for warren or west and were put in another dorm. But some of those in other had chosen a smaller dorm (like Towers) on purpose seemed to feel slightly socially isolated from the rest of the freshman class. It’s a question of personality but even if (or perhaps especially if) you’re not a social person, sometimes it’s better to be surrounded by people who are also just getting started rather than sophomores who have already found their niche.</p>