<p>I like the idea of living in a themed hall according to interest...I'm kinda a nerd, I like anime and sci-fi and all that stuff, so the Otaku Hall at Hollins University sounds awesome to me.</p>
<p>I think it's cool that Washington and Jefferson has a pet hall too where people can have dogs, cats, etc and live with other pet-owners. </p>
<p>What other colleges have interest-related specialty halls? </p>
<p>Also, what experiences have members had living in these communities? Good, bad, nothing special?</p>
<p>University of Puget Sound has interest themed halls. In fact one of their optional essays asked students to describe a future residence hall.
Emory has an environmentally sustainable dorm (but only for freshmen)</p>
<p>Many schools have themed dorms. At Stanford, apart from the language/culture themed dorms (which many schools have), there are the co-ops each with a particular theme and culture, a new e-dorm for the entrepreneurs, and special program dorms like SLE for interested freshman. If it’s ‘unique features’ you are looking for, MIT allows cats in four of its 11 undergraduate dorms. Harvey Mudd has a dorm that is especially beloved of the pyromaniacs in their midst. Oberlin has a dorm that’s very focused on minimizing their environmental impact. I bet most of the mid-sized and larger schools have themed dorms (except those with the ‘house system’ like Yale and Rice - and perhaps even they do?)</p>