<p>I was just wondering how you would characterize the student body and the students in general. I think I have a good idea of the social life, but I was wondering how the students actually are.</p>
<p>And which are the best/worst dorms? Why?</p>
<p>Friendly, talented, unassuming, down to earth, intellectual,interesting. I'll let current students answer the dorm question.</p>
<p>It would be helpful if you told us what your criteria are for evaluating dorms. Size, age, culture, dynamic, rooming arrangements, etc.?</p>
<p>Lets see... Culture is very important, but so is the size and quality of rooms + the overall facility (nice furniture, feels like home)</p>
<p>That would probably be the criteria. Old Architecture is also important.</p>
<p>Is there a dorm refered to as Trailer Clark because it is a trailer/mobile dorm? Fact or Fiction?</p>
<p>mudd-blaisdell is the only freshman dorm with a/c, but i think most people are fine without it anyways bc pomona's in a desert-y area so it cools down at night. you can request a single (about 1/3 of freshmen have them)...i've had a single every year actually! the doubles in mudd-blaisdell are small (but you get a/c)...other than that the rooms are usually pretty big. wig recently got renovated...i lived there freshman year and absolutely loved my huge single - it was almost as big as a double. compared to other places i visited i would def. say pomona has great housing.</p>
<p>Pomona has great housing, and the trailers (Trailer Clark as you called it) is gone. Some of the upperclassmen talk about it with great reverence, but alas, it was destroyed.</p>
<p>As for the students, most are nice, except I'm kind of a jerk.</p>
<p>There are four dorms in which freshman live, all of which are on South Campus and within a two-minute walking distance. You are assigned to a dorm freshman year and then after that there is a room draw lottery. The culture of each dorm varies by year since freshmen have no say in where they live; plus substance-free housing, which really affects the demographics and culture of a dorm, changes in location from year to year. However, there seems to be some cultural features that persist from year to year.</p>
<p>Mudd-Blaisdell is the biggest South Campus dorm. It's the only dorm that has air conditioning, but as someone who lives in a dorm without AC, I can testify that it's really not a big deal - you only need AC for maybe 2 weeks in the fall and 2 weeks in the spring. The fact that M-B has AC is offset by the fact that it has the smallest rooms. M-B is so big that it's almost impossible to know everyone who lives there, and since the dorm is essentially two buildings (Mudd and Blaisdell) connected at only one place and separated by a central courtyard, there is quite a bit of self-segregation between Mudd residents and Blaisdell residents.</p>
<p>Lyon is the smallest South Campus dorm - both its singles and doubles are nicely sized. From what I hear from upperclassmen and from what I've seen myself, Lyon has the reputation of being "the party dorm," but this year actually one floor of it is substance-free housing, making for a strange combination.</p>
<p>In Harwood some rooms are nice and big and others are smaller. Harwood is going to be renovated this summer, so it should be very nice for next year's freshmen. A lot of athletes seem to be placed in Harwood, although I don't know if that's just this year or a general trend.</p>
<p>Wig has very spacious rooms. It was remodeled the summer before last, so the look of the dorm is clean and new. Wig is at one end of South Campus, so even though it's close in distance to the other dorms, there's not a lot of people traffic in Wig. As a result, all of Wig is known for being pretty cohesive every year. There are three floors, and most people know the people on their floor the best, but this year there are a lot of inter-floor friendships and Wig is generally tight-knit.</p>
<p>To sum up: Pomona has great housing (and good food) and nice people. And for more info on dorms and campus life, go to <a href="http://pomona.edu/adwr/campuslife/residentiallife/southcampus.shtml%5B/url%5D">http://pomona.edu/adwr/campuslife/residentiallife/southcampus.shtml</a>.</p>
<p>D lived on Wig 1 her first year and got to know pretty much everyone in the dorm. Wig also is the closest first-year dorm to Claremont Village, and it has a "beach" volleyball court plus Wig beach (nice grassy area where you can study in the sun) right in back of it. The rooms have very high ceilings that allow you to store your boxes and other stuff you don't need regularly at the top of the closet. Plus, the closets are huge!</p>
<p>Great Things About The Dorms:</p>
<p>You can get a single just by asking for one
Extremely roomy (good for gathering people in your room)
Very Clean (housekeeping comes through every day)
Usually share a bathroom with <5 people
Buildings are close together (easy to visit your friends)</p>
<p>Bad things about the dorms</p>
<p>sponcest?????</p>