<p>So I got donner house 3rd floor for housing.</p>
<p>Can someone tell me about Donner House? Pros/cons..etc</p>
<p>I got donner 3rd too.
Pros - big rooms, all freshman housing, nice on the inside
cons - communal bathrooms, looks weird from the outside</p>
<p>If you have facebook, you can join the donner house 07-08 group and meet other people in donner there :)</p>
<p>pros: close to classes, "dorm" life, etc
cons: soviet union quality architecture, the bad parts of dorm life (roommate wanting "private" time which could happen anytime, communal bathrooms, etc)</p>
<p>overall you'll probably have a good time, though it is really a horribly ugly building :D</p>
<p>Cons: ugliest building on campus (no argument about it, although I suspect the new Gates Center will be equally awful).</p>
<p>Pros: as NoFX said, big rooms.</p>
<p>what? hell no. The Gates Building is actually going to look good. Have you even seen the plans? It's going to be the first in a long plan to make CMU a more connected campus. You probably didn't know that CMU is buying up property to the museum, did you? In like 30 years, CMU's campus will be much larger, unless Cohen's plan is stopped.</p>
<p>3rd floor Donner might not have as many freshmen as the other floors. When I was there my freshman year, the 3rd floor had a good number of Sophomores in there too.</p>
<p>Starting this fall, Donner will be all freshmen, so that's not an issue anymore. :)</p>
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what? hell no. The Gates Building is actually going to look good. Have you even seen the plans?
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<p>I think all new buildings should keep the traditional yellow-brick, green-roof architecture that is characteristic of the CMU campus (as it was done with the University Center, the Purnell Center, and Newell-Simon Hall). Unfortunately, a "modern" design was chosen instead for the Gates Center suggesting that, 20 years or so from now, it will be obviously dated and out of place, just like Wean Hall is today.</p>
<p>I think you could have done a modern building that was also in keeping with the color scheme of the campus. I thought the plans for the Gate building looked completely out of place. Location, scale and interiors were fine. Of course there are a couple of already out of place buildings (Wean, the library).</p>
<p>Donner was my freshman dorm 30 years ago this fall. Sounds like nothing's changed: big rooms but ugly.</p>
<p>If you think about it, all modern architecture design is out of place.</p>
<p>As far as I know, the Gates building will have yellow brick and a green roof (made of grass), so...</p>
<p>Oh yeah, and Donner is a pretty OK place to live.</p>
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As far as I know, the Gates building will have yellow brick
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<p>Not according to this model design. </p>
<p>I'm not really an expert, but, if you ask me, I find it ugly.</p>
<p>perhaps the interior will be better than the exterior?</p>
<p>Even if it's ugly, it will connect the campus better, providing more walking routes. <em>shrug</em> let's see when it's done.</p>
<p>Where is floor A?</p>
<p>CMU buildings have floors labeled 1, 2, 3, ... for floors above ground, with floor 1 corresponding to ground floor.</p>
<p>The first basement is the A level, the floor below that is B, and so on. Rumor has it that Doherty Hall has an F level.</p>
<p>Note that "above ground" and "below ground" are relative with the hills in Pittsburgh- on one side of Wean, floor 5 is ground level (on the other it is 1).</p>
<p>I'm pretty sure that Doherty has a D level...</p>