<p>According to ppl on forum, i see that there is no way to choose between suite and corridor, but what i am interested in are the differences between the "communities"... the tour provided mock rooms at CIW, but i want some more information on the other ones as well. I am in SOM (if that makes a difference) but like art sooo much more than math xD ...</p>
<p>suite is just 6 people, two in each room and those three rooms have a common living room, kind of like an apartment, and a private bathroom. Corridor is one bathroom per floor so everyone uses it.
Newing has 3 rooms, but unlike CIW, no common living room, with a private bathroom and a private shower.
Dickinson I believe is corridor, Mountainview is suites, Susquehanna is apartment style living (similar to suites but off campus) Hinman is suites as well I believe.</p>
<p>Freshmen can’t live in Susquehanna.
Hinman and Mountainview are only suites. Dickinson is traditional corridor style–double rooms with community bathroom facilities. Newing is corridor-style doubles, but every 3 rooms gets their own private bathroom facilities that is keyed to their room key, so others on the floor can’t get in. There is also a community bathroom available in case of conflicts over the facilities. CIW has doubles on the halls with 6-person suites on the corners as pinky described. In general, most freshmen get the doubles, as upperclassmen fill most of the suites during their spring housing sign-ups. So if you pick CIW, expect to live in a double.
Also–the Dickinson buildings are quite old. Now that Newing has been rebuilt, new Dickinson dorms are going up where the old Newing dorms used to stand. Once those dorms are complete, the existing Dickinson dorms will be knocked down or repurposed.
The college that you are in does not affect where you live–you can live anywhere you want.</p>
<p>MV is all suites, no corridors? My son was at orientation this week and was assigned MV but, I thought he said he didn’t know if he got a suite.</p>
<p>Mountainview is mostly suites, but there are also designed triples which include a bathroom. [Binghamton</a> University - Residential Life - Mountainview College - Room Styles](<a href=“http://www.reslife.binghamton.edu/mountainview/room-types.html]Binghamton”>http://www.reslife.binghamton.edu/mountainview/room-types.html)</p>
<p>Thanks for the link! Still puzzled by what this “designed triple” is. How does the compare to a corridor room?</p>
<p>The oldest dorms used to be Newing and Dickison which were traditional “corridor” style – a long hallway with double rooms sharing a communal bathroom – that’s probably what most people used to think of as “corridor style”. the old Newing has now been replaced by the new Newing which is modified corridor style – 3 double rooms sharing bathrooms as well as a communal bathroom on the floor.
CIW – the hallways go around in a square – double rooms along the outer side of the square, suites in the corners, bathroom in the middle.
In Mountainview, the suites and triples both open onto the hallways. It is different than the traditional corridor style in the sense that everyone’s rooms aren’t open on to the hallway. The suites open onto the hallway, but the individual bedrooms are inside the suite. The triples open directly onto the hallway. So it isn’t as “social” as a traditional hallway where you are walking by everyone’s “bedrooms.”
A designed triple is one big room intended for 3 people to live in – enough room for 3 complete sets of furniture. There can also be “temporay” triples which is when 3 people are assigned to a room that was intended to hold 2 people – this occurs when there are more entering students than there is room for. How “temporary” this is depends on just how crowded things are – sometimes they are detripled fairly quickly, sometimes not at all. (There are usually some students who end up not coming back to school or who leave early in the year which allows for some detripling.)</p>
<p>I think the styles are partially based dorming community. Bing has videos online touring each community.</p>
<p>I’m currently a resident assistant at Newing. Feel free to PM me with any questions!</p>