<p>opinions? favorites? information? any comments would be appreciated (:
i couldn't really get a good " students' " view from the website, and i can't afford to visit :/
thanks in advance!</p>
<p>here’s my take on dorms:
pros:
the community makes it easy to make friends who have similar interests as you do.
walking distance from class
*dining hall</p>
<p>cons:
rooms are too small
expensive *** rent, i ran some calculations, its about 800 bucks/month for rent alone.
sometimes u can hear people talking at 2am when u’re trying to sleep, because the walls are so thin. </p>
<p>But overall, its a really good experience for me</p>
<p>Are there any dorms that have suite-like bathrooms? ANYTHING that’s not a shared over the whole floor?</p>
<p>there’s bathrooms if u get a triple, or in some dorms like south quad, they have some bathrooms for doubles .</p>
<p>My son had a quad in South Quad that had a private bathroom this year.</p>
<p>North Quad is going to have some suite style living, and I feel like maybe one of the dorms that starts with B might have suites from what I remember… I have a single with a private bath in newberry next year.</p>
<p>I have no complaints about the sizes of the rooms. Most buildings seem to have very nice rooms.</p>
<p>Baites has private bathrooms I think (each shared with two rooms).</p>
<p>This is what I have heard from these forums:
Markley is more social with smaller rooms
You don’t want to stay in Baites as a freshman
Mojo is a good place but you may not get it as a freshman</p>
<p>I have heard all of these and you can search the forum here for more if you need.</p>
<p>i lived in west quad last year and loved it. most of the freshman athletes live there and upperclassmen as well. i found it to be really social, but i met a lot of different people from around the building. the rooms are much bigger than markley but they do have communal bathrooms. cambridge house isn’t for freshman, but they do have their own bathrooms.</p>
<p>You can’t choose your dorm really. You can only rank Central/Hill, Bursley, and Baits. I suggest that order.</p>
<p>Is there an age limit to living in dorms? I am curious about this. I will be transferring in and I am 20 years old. I would like to know if I will be older than everyone else or if will there people older than me. Do you guys know if there is a maximum age limit to living on campus?</p>
<p>There is no max. You can live in the dorms through senior year. You will definitely be older than most, but there’s a cluster of upperclassmen that choose to live in the dorms beyond freshman and even sophomore year. West Quad has a decent amount of upperclassmen. Markley won’t, North campus likely won’t (upperclassmen get priority, thus obviously choose to live on Central).</p>
<p>Wolfpack-- you will be welcome in the dorms and there will be other upperclassmen (depending on where you live), but be prepared to live with and around LOTS and LOTS of freshman. I was a mature 20 and in retrospect that was not an experience I needed to have. Might have been bearable had my roommate not waited until March to figure out she was really not in high school anymore.</p>
<p>ETA: That said, I did still opt to live in the dorms my second year for convenience. I just got a single this time and moved someplace known to be more quiet and conservative.</p>