Dorm Stuff

Colleges and Universities A-Z Yale University
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<p>I have a random question, I am having an argument with my friend about which dorms are better Harvard or Yale. (lame conversation...right)</p>

<p>So does anyone think that they could post some pictures of their dorms and talk about how you like your dorm.</p>

<p>thanks</p>

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<p>Sure, here you go:</p>

<p><a href=“http://www.amauiblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/room-before.jpg[/url]”>http://www.amauiblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/room-before.jpg&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>I think the picture speaks for itself. Harvard really knows how to treat its students :)</p>

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<p>I have another couple questions to add. Do all Yale freshman live separate from upperclassmen? And do students switch residence halls after freshman year?</p>

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<p>golf: 10 of the 12 residential colleges have their freshmen live all together in Old Campus – the main residential quadrangle for frosh. Silliman and Timothy Dwight freshman actually live in their residential colleges (w/the upperclassmen) from the onset.</p>

<p>The other ten colleges’ freshmen move into their residential colleges as sophomores.</p>

<p>(on a side note, some colleges have overflow housing in a few spaces in the Old Campus. It’s kinda fun to be an upperclassman living around tons of freshmen. My college, Jonathan Edwards, has eight suites in McClellan hall. I lived in Farnam on Old Campus as a freshman, sophomore in JE and then Jr and Sr years in McClellan, back in the Old Campus.)</p>

<p>Many rooms have great features. My Farnam sextet room was 4 sgls and a double with our own bathroom. My sophomore year, we had a triple with a dbl bedroom, a single bedroom and a common room with fireplace (my roommate lived w/his girlfriend so I had the dbl bedroom to myself). Junior year in McClellan, we had a quintet. 2x dbl bedrooms and a single, our own bath room and common room w/fireplace. Senior year, we went for the whole shebang. Vied for one of the McClellan octets – two floors, skylights, two fireplaces, two bathrooms, six single bedrooms and a huge double bedroom. It was a sweet set up and we hosted many social events.</p>

<p>In the ensuing years, all the residential colleges have been renovated from even my time which was widely considered the nadir of the facilities – even so, I thought they were great. Nowadays, Yalies have it VERY good. The renovated colleges are out of sight.</p>

<p>I know all our friends visiting from other colleges were always in awe of even what we considered to be “normal”. the few times I was up at Cambridge, I don’t recall anything “wowing” me whatsoever. Nothing bad but nothing that I can recall.</p>

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<p>Did you have to pay extra for those awesome rooms?</p>

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<p>Nope. Rising Freshmen, sophomores and juniors go into a room draw/lottery system within their Residential Colleges. Juniors get first pick and so forth.</p>

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<p>overachiever…is that a Yale room or Harvard room</p>

<p>I am guessing Harvard</p>

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<p>[Yalies</a> Show Off Their Stylin’ Suites on “Yale Cribs”: Cute! | IvyGate](<a href=“http://www.ivygateblog.com/2010/06/yalies-show-off-their-stylin-suites-on-yale-cribs-cute/]Yalies”>http://www.ivygateblog.com/2010/06/yalies-show-off-their-stylin-suites-on-yale-cribs-cute/)
[Elle</a> in the Elm City: Yale Cribs, Part 1](<a href=“http://elleintheelmcity.blogspot.com/2009/03/yale-cribs-part-1.html]Elle”>Elle in the Elm City: Yale Cribs, Part 1)</p>

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<p>yesss thank you Descartesz…</p>

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<p>Those dorms are amazing. Far better than any other dorms that I have seen in any college visits. Unfortunately Yale wouldn’t let us go in to any rooms while I was on my visit. I would have loved to see some of the rooms in person.</p>

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<p>In that “Yale Cribs” page, the first video shows suite H31 in Jonathan Edwards college – I must say that it was better than my triple (C33). However, those guys were sophomores – meaning they had the lowest draw and worst choices in Jonathan Edwards. You can pretty much assume that every Junior and Senior in JE had better rooms than they did. How about dem apples?</p>

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<p>I am really enjoying my single in Durfee. Visitting Harvard and staying in freshman housing there was an . . . interesting experience :P</p>

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<p>@evertheoptimist You don’t have any suitemates? or is your room off of the common room a single?</p>

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<p>I need to use this phrase more often</p>

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<p>CJ1995: My room off of the common room is a single :)</p>