<p>Sorry for the really late responses, but here I go:</p>
<p>@Zenith: I’d say the Vibe on campus is pretty relaxing. There’s usually people on lawns reading or playing frisbees. People eating outside, talking, and of course, a lot of people walking to and from class. On the South 40, where the dorms are, I’d say it’s just as lively. Maybe not as many people reading or sleeping outside, but on certain days there are basketball games, and club events outside. There’s also a good amount of activity in some of the favorite eating places, such as Ursa’s, which stays open till 1 am and serves hot chocolates and quesadillas and gellato. </p>
<p>@hotdancer: you basically summed it right up. Traditional’s are definitely more social (in my opinion). i lived in a modern sub free and if you find the right friends on your floor, it won’t seem bad, but obviously not everyone on the floor will show their face all the time. There are some people who complain about excessive partying on traditional dorms, but that’s really a gamble anyways and can be solved by going to another dorm’s study room or to the library, whenever you need peace and quiet. </p>
<p>@lovinglife: campus card is extremely useful, especially when you run out of meal points since they can just deduct meals from there. But a debit card is always handy as well, just in life in general. </p>
<p>@pimouse: great question. Personally, I think WashU has everything to offer and is really a great school. Of course, I haven’t attended other schools so other colleges might do the same, but when I visited and looked into WashU, I was guaranteed all of these great things. I love how there’s a lot of flexibility in choosing classes. I love how the advisers here really want everyone to succeed. They don’t care if every single person is a pre-med, they would love each of us to get into a medical school if that were possible. All professors have some sort of office hour, there are so many review sessions held by professors and TA’s before classes as well. Overall, I just liked the relaxed, non-competitive atmosphere provided here. Of course, there will always be those who try to make it competitive, but for the most part, I didn’t find a target on my head or anything like that. </p>
<p>To answer your second question: YES! WashU is extremely flexible. You can easily change between schools in WashU, even in your sophomore year. You don’t have to pick a major until the end of your sophomore year. There are also plenty of people doing double majors in two diff schools, like art and artsci, or engineering and business, etc. the flexibility here is what also drew me to WashU although I probably won’t really need it.</p>
<p>@basketball: sorry but i don’t know anything about those papers lol!</p>
<p>@muppetsecks: in my honest opinion, yes there is a difference. Personally, when i lived on a sub free, I found a group of friends that were similar to me so i definitely think I got lucky. There weren’t that many ‘awkward anti-social’ people, everyone was friendly, but some people had their own quirks, and there wasn’t always alot of socializing among the whole floor, mainly some cliques (mine included), and a few people who didn’t talk to the rest of the floor. I haven’t lived in a regular dorm, but from what I’ve seen, they tend to be a little more social, perhaps because there happen to be more people who are okay with drinking (and those people tend to be really social anyways). In my opinion, it comes down to whether you’re really okay with drinking or not. There were definitely some people on my subfree who would go out and drink, it’s just not okay to drink on the floor. Wherever you go, you’ll find friends, so don’t choose non-subfree if you’re only worried about making friends, cause those friends may not be the ones you’d like to make anyways.</p>