<p>Hi! I sent my deposit to Williams earlier this week and looking forward to being an Eph =) When I went to previews, I stayed with my host in Frosh Quad, and I was wondering how the mission dorms compare</p>
<p>I stayed in Mission during Previews, and, assuming that my entry was representative of the others, I think the main differences are: </p>
<p>Missions is comprised of singles.
Entries are spread out horizontally, not stacked vertically. </p>
<p>I liked both of these differences. The entry system minimizes the social need for a room mate, so I could have my privacy, and the horizontal layout means that everyone in the entry congregates in the same common room. Kind of a tight squeeze, but more cohesion. (Then again, I didn’t experience Frosh Quad, so I’m just kind of theorizing.)</p>
<p>I did a 2 night overnight in October and stayed in Mission, then for Previews was in Gladden (Upperclassmen housing…I don’t really know how that happened) but spent a couple hours in one of the Frosh Quad entries. Like Courteau said, Mission is all singles (with 3? doubles I think…) and the entry has one big common room with a little kitchen-esque thing. In the entry I stayed in, most of the entry seemed to congregate in the Common Room which I really liked, and there is a dining hall in the basement of the building too. Also, the rooms in Mission were these awesome octagons (maybe hexagons, with a HUGE window!). In Frosh Quad it seems to be a double and a single off of a smaller common room for those 3 people, then that repeated for 4 floors for the entry. One of the girls I talked to said that the entry often winds up hanging out in the JAs common room if everyone is together. That is what I saw for Mission and Frosh Quad, any current/past student care to comment on what they thought of freshmen housing?</p>
<p>It’s really a matter of taste.</p>
<p>Frosh Quad:
Better Location
Some Doubles
Lots of small common rooms
Vertical Entries
Horizontal entries
One Common room (and smaller study rooms)</p>
<p>There are ups and downs; the bad part about one common room is that its hard to use it for a quiet and loud activity at the same time; not so in Frosh Quad.</p>