<p>So, I finally got my housing assignment today and I'm on the top floor of Craige. </p>
<p>Apparently only some of the rooms have AC units?</p>
<p>It is also not too encouraging that a certain college... prowling website listed Craige dorm as the worst. </p>
<p>Does anyone have any experience with Craige? And can anyone give any insight on suite style housing?</p>
<p>Craige, like Hinton James and Ehringhaus, is pretty ghetto. Very few people get a good housing assignment their first year - it just doesn’t happen. You’re right about the AC - only some of the floors have units, but I don’t know which ones (although I think they installed them from the bottom up in Hinton James). You will at least meet a ton of people (mostly freshmen) since you are living on South Campus, so that is a plus!</p>
<p>People have written a lot about suites before on different threads, so if you search around you can find some good info. In a nutshell, there are four rooms and a bathroom per suite, and you enter through the suite door into a little entryway that connects the rooms and the bathroom. Housekeeping cleans everyday except on the weekends.</p>
<p>From your other posts it looks like you got in off the waitlist, so CONGRATS!! : )</p>
<p>According to the hOusing website only ehaus doesn’t have ac in all the rooms his year</p>
<p>yeah, i’ve heard that craige has AC now & ehaus the only one left without it. so you got lucky in that regard!</p>
<p>It is what you make of it. You can try to see if there are any open places left, but there are fewer empty beds around campus now that all first years are required to live on campus. They are flexible if you don’t have your heart set on having a certain room-mate. 2 years ago I actually moved out of Eringhaus into Hardin, and then actually ended up in Cobb. So it does happen, but like I said before, it will happen a lot less now. If you have a medical condition, you could potentially have a better chance of switching rooms.</p>
<p>Finally, after telling you every possible way you could change your room, I don’t think being in Craige would be the end of the world. I actually moved down to South Campus after living in Cobb my first year, and will be down there again this year. If I remember correctly eadad’s son, who was a Morehead, lived down on south campus his first two years.</p>
<p>Good call on the AC, guys! I can’t keep all the dorms straight, ha ha.</p>
<p>Craig Dorm!!! My first home from home, back in 1986…A while back. It was the end of the civilization back them…Dean Dome parking lot was the place where I learned how to drive…How that folks think Craig Dorm is the bottom of the pile as far as dorm is concerned? I guess time does change…</p>
<p>You could do worse. I was on the tenth floor of HoJo (hinton james) my freshmen year. Talk about the worst placement on campus . . .</p>
<p>But in all seriousness, I think it’s good that you ended up on south campus your freshmen year. Not only will the long walks help you keep off the frosh 15, but it’s a great way to meet other freshmen. The high-rise dorms have a great social scene, and when you’re an upperclassman you’ll be able to commiserate with everyone else about how bad you had it freshmen year. Living on south campus is kind of like a rite of passage at Carolina.</p>
<p>Whoop whoop Craige! I’m on the top floor too! We’ll have more fun than those other, supposedly “better” dorms. Don’t worry.</p>