<p>becker beans? please elaborate...
why if you speak another language?
which buildings in becker are new?</p>
<p>With a house meal plan you can eat at all 3 dining halls unlimited?</p>
<p>lol becker beans are the bean-mixes the caf serves hahaha.</p>
<p>Ya you can go in and out of all 3 cafs as much as u want free of charge! (well once u have already paid the initial meal plan fee haha)</p>
<p>and they have a language floor in one of the gothics</p>
<p>There are technically two buildings in Becker but they are connected and called Becker South and Becker North and are identical.</p>
<p>Bethe also contains one of the gothic buildings- McFaddin. I'm not sure if that is just temporary until all the houses on west are finished, but this year McFaddin is part of bethe house.</p>
<p>Bethe is closest to central campus. Cook has the best food imo. Becker has that sack lunch program (you can also get sack lunches if you are in the other two program houses, but you'll have to get it in Becker).</p>
<p>The sack lunches are disgusting, though, IMO :(
Though I think the Becker cafeteria has the best food <em>shrug</em>
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Boldt Hall (not Tower) is the language house</p>
<p>lol Bethe is hardly closer than the others...u have to walk up libe slope either way. I wouldn't pick my dorm using that consideration. They are all sooo close together. Bethe is the closest to noyes/the frats b4 college town. Cook is next to the frats on the west campus street. Becker is in the middle. They are all right next to eachother.</p>
<p>Which ones are air-conditioned?</p>
<p>1) Bethe
2) Becker
3) Cook</p>
<p>Bethe is by far the best. It's closest to Noyes and has West Side Express right there. Bethe is also the closest walk to Collegetown. The food is also the best in Bethe if you tend to be a picky eater like I am. The burgers are great because they're the same patties that they use in West Side Express. Sometimes I go to Cook house and I end up eating nothing because I don't like any of the stuff they put out there. They get pretty weird with the dining menu in Cook, so think about that if you are going to pick Cook. It's also the furthest away from the campus, but it has the Boldt bus stop right next to it. As for Becker, it has a nice TV lounge, food is above average most days, and it has a small computer lab.</p>
<p>BTW there's also a new building opening up next year; it's right behind Bethe.</p>
<p>Also, don't even think about living in the Gothics. I'm living in one now and it sucks. Gotta take your laundry to another building, no elevators, ****ty heating, disgusting bathrooms, the list goes on. There's no vending machines either so if you need a drink or something, you gotta make a long trek to Noyes.</p>
<p>All the new west campus residence halls are known to be extremely antisocial, and they completely live up to this stereotype. </p>
<p>Becker has awful good compared to Bethe or Cook.</p>
<p>Which dorms are considered the most social??</p>
<p>Does anybody know anything about what the fourth House is going to be like? Or if you live in one House, can you eat in another's dining hall? Thanks!</p>
<p>The fourth house, Keeton, will be much like Becker or Bethe in that it is a completely new house (minus McFadden - a Gothic - which is part of Bethe). It is made of two wings which are connected by a dining hall. It is unlike Cook house because Cook house only has one new wing and many Gothic dormatories that are part of the house system (they are on the same meal plan, asked to join Cook house activities, etc).</p>
<p>The meal plans in the house system try to encourage dining in your own hall. However, you have unlimited meals in any of the West Campus dining halls (Bethe, Becker, Cook, Keeton). You also get 50 or 75 meals (depending on which meal plan you sign up for) in the all-you-care-to-eat dining halls on other parts of campus. Both plans come with Big Red Bucks that you can use at a la carte dining facilities.</p>
<p>Alice cook house seriously suck in my opinion. I hope becker and bethe will be better. However i heard from some faculty that rooms vary in sizes for gothic design. She told me the largest double is almost 100 sq ft bigger than the smallest. I didn' tcheck so i dont know if its true. just heard that</p>
<p>Thanks for the info, cornell_girl!</p>
<p>As an old alum who lived in the Gothics for three years back in the 1970s, I can tell you that the differences in room quality and room size are extreme.</p>
<p>There are tiny doubles and doubles big enough that they could almost serve as classrooms. There are even doubles that consist of two or three very small linked rooms (e.g., two cell-size bedrooms with a little living room between -- nice for privacy, but not a good choice for the claustrophobic). </p>
<p>In my time, housing prices at Cornell varied greatly even among the same category of rooms (e.g., doubles). In dorms where all the rooms were the same (e.g., Donlon), everybody paid the same price. In dorms where the rooms varied in size and quality, different people paid different prices. The range of prices within the Gothics was very large, and the cheapest doubles on campus were found in this complex. You can reach your own conclusions from that.</p>
<p>The main thing that the Gothics have in common is that most of the buildings are divided into small sections, and therefore people living there tend to meet only a very small number of other people. The section where I lived housed only 16 people. I was one of 5 on the top floor of that section. We had our own bathroom on that floor, and we never saw anyone except each other, unless we specifically invited someone to visit. (We were upperclassmen with established social circles, and we didn't mind at all, but for people who are still looking for friends, this would be a horrible arrangement.) In my opinion, incorporating the Gothics into the West Campus Houses is a good idea because at least the people living in the Gothics will meet other people at meals. </p>
<p>The other thing you need to know about the Gothics is that in many cases, you will have to drag your laundry to another building to wash it. Sorry.</p>
<p>Any idea when Keeton will be open?</p>
<p>It's opening in the Fall of 2008! duh.</p>
<p>Anyone know what Keeton will have available that is different from the other new houses on west (particularly bethe?)</p>
<p>Well, you can't pick the house you want, as far as I know. So does it really matter in the end? I saw the construction on Keeton, it looks very similar to Bethe...</p>
<p>^ Didn't know that. Thanks for the info though.</p>