<p>what are the dorms like? how are you assigned to a dorm? do you fill out one of those "personality" sheets and then the school sets you up with roommates and place you in a room? how many roomates usually? how are the dorms set up? are they set up in units- like what they have at harvard- where theres a common room and then statellite bedrooms? what about bathrooms? are all dorms co-ed? </p>
<p>oh and also, is there wireless internet around the campus</p>
<p>The dorms are really beautiful on the outside and pretty good on the inside. You fill out a roommate questionaire where you state your sleeping hours, whether or not you enjoy loud music, would prefer non-smoking, etc. You usually are paired up with one roommate and maximum two. </p>
<p>The dorms all have different set ups. Some are like units and some are like apartments. There's wireless everywhere on campus. (except for some remote locations where you have no business working on a laptop).</p>
<p>There are quite a few different set-ups. The campus is very diverse in terms of housing. There are old mansions that are converted into dorms, and there are huge apartment-style dorms. Stanford has (what I like to say) the best policy and outlook on dorm life. They have what they call residential education, and they believe that half of your stanford education happens outside the classroom, in the dorm.
All the dorms are nice on the inside, but not extravagant. I lived in one of the older, least renovated dorms (Ujamma in Lagunita court) and in one of the newly renovated dorms (all frosh branner) and IO found both to be great. All dorms have common areas and computer clusters, but the only Harvard like "suites" are, ironically in the building Suites.
All dorms are co-ed, but boys/girls are segregated to diff floors/wings and unless you live in suites or a Mirelees apartment, bathrooms are shared but not coed.<br>
HOPE THAT HELPS!</p>
<p>apartments? does that mean that there's a bathroom and a kictchen and bedrooms in each apartment that you share w/ other ppl?</p>
<p>Not all dorms are segregated at all- several of the all-frosh dorms (including Branner) are all Co-ed, and most frosh/four-class dorms have one boy's floor, one girl's floor, and a co-ed floor. Pretty much meaning that you're living next door to the opposite sex, unless your hall has a strong gender imbalance- my hall in Branner last year, which has 2 room triples, had 2 girls' rooms, 4 guy's rooms and 2 guys' singles (including the RA's) on the ends. There ARE a few co-ed bathrooms, so you MIGHT get one. </p>
<p>Once you're not a freshman anymore, the housing options widen a lot- there are still some upperclass dorms to live in, which are entirely co-ed (floors/halls included). Many upperclassmen, however, try to live in Houses- which can be dorm-like or really house like, except that they house 30-60 people- so they're really like mansions. Most houses are on the Row, which is a phrase you will hear a lot if you come here, because it's basically the center of campus/social life- it's the location of all of the frats, and many other fun places to live. Houses range from frat houses to co-ops (meaning you cook and clean with each other) to self-ops (the house hires people to cook and clean) which include internationally themed houses and the like.</p>
<p>Options outside the row and dorms include Suites and Mirelees, and in Mirelees you get your own kitchen and bathroom, but in Suites you only get your own bathroom. There are also a couple co-ops and themed houses as well as the sororities that are housed a bit farther from the center of campus. Hope that helps.</p>
<p>You are assigned to the dorm by 2 students who read your preferences and personality sheets and assign you to a dorm and a roommate or roommates. Branner is the only frosh dorm in which there are triples, so usually you will only have one roommate. It changes after freshman year- where there is basically a lottery, called "the draw".</p>