Dorms & Living Arrangements

Colleges and Universities A-Z St. John's College - Maryland
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<p>Hi all, I'm hoping to get some current students' input on the living situations on the Annapolis campus. I've been accepted and should be there in August, and I'm a little frustrated by the lack of pictures and information on dorms. </p>

<p>Do they feel cramped? Are they on par with most other schools? Do many people actually have two roommates <em>in their room</em>, or is it the kind of set up where each roommate's room is connected to the others, and just one has a door outside?</p>

<p>Anyone know of any sites with pictures? I appreciate any and all help! Thanks!</p>

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<p>I too am in the same situtation. I do have friends there and have been in teh dorms. They are a decent size bigger than some others i have seen but eh size varies from building to building and room to room as everything is quite old. I did however find a post on Princeton Review that answers some questions.</p>

<p>Posted by eset:
How are the dorms?</p>

<p>Humphreys: My personal favorite, and home to the big screen TV which tinges everything slightly greenish and a pool table in the basement, as well as the campus bookstore. The rooms are square-ish, which seems to lend itself better to giving each person their own space. Occasional mouse problems, but nothing major--just don't leave food out over vacations, put it in plastic bins, a refrigerator or microwave, anything not easily chewed through. Civil war ghosts may or may not haunt the first floor, I've never heard anything definite.</p>

<p>Campbell: Where they put the prospies (prospective students). Basement holds foosball tables as well as most of the washers and dryers on campus (the others are in Chase Stone). Rooms are longer and skinnier, so they have a slightly more closed in feel. Has a tendency to smell when it gets hot, something to do with the way they did the plumbing when they put singles in the basement.</p>

<p>Randall: Upside, you're in the same building as the dining hall. Downside, you’re in the same building as the dining hall. You still have to go outside to get to the dining hall, but you get the joys of possible roaches and more crampt rooms. The boys' floor also boasts a newly refurbished room thanks to Mr. Zweibel and the still smoldering cigarette he left in a trash can when he went to play ping pong in the gym. The photo of his charred books made a compelling cover photo for the Gadfly, our school paper.</p>

<p>Chase Stone: Not really a freshman dorm, though it does house the overflow if there are too many incoming freshmen to be accommodated in the other three. Rooms have their own thermostats, but room shapes don't lend themselves well to triples.</p>

<p>Pinkney, Paca, Gilliam, and the soon to be opened Specter are not open to freshmen, and hold mostly singles and split doubles. </p>

<p>They answer a few other questions to. <a href="http://discuss.princetonreview.com/tm.asp?m=7024223%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://discuss.princetonreview.com/tm.asp?m=7024223&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>Well i hope to see you next year it's nice to meet a fellow johnnie</p>

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<p>Thanks for the heads up! I've been feeling pretty helpless, since I never got a chance to do the prospie tour thing. It's good to have a general idea of what the digs will be like. And it IS nice to see another Johnnie around - it's a shame there don't seem to be more gathering places for us in cyberspace.</p>

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<p>I figure everone that is going there isn't a computer person. Except for the fella who made the forum complaining about the school.</p>

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<p>My experience with computers generally involves whacking the keyboard with a blunt object until the gibberish it spews out resolves into some semblance of language. Yesterday I reproduced the complete works of Shakespeare.</p>

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<p>Sorry. I forgot to introduce myself. Another new student here; it's quite exciting to finally find some others! Thanks for the dorm information. The only thing I know is that Humphreys is "a fine example of castellated Gothic revival", or at least that's what the brochure said.</p>

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<p>We are slowly forming a band.</p>

<p>"castellated Gothic revival" well i don't know about that... but everything is red brick and white trim in "regular Maryland" colonial style. If you have never seen the campus you are in for a suprise! I love it! </p>

<p>This links has pictures of campus:
<a href="http://www.stjohnscollege.edu/user/A_spring.aspx%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.stjohnscollege.edu/user/A_spring.aspx&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>Thanks. I've taken the black-and-white online tour far more times than is strictly healthy, so it's nice to see the campus in glorious color.</p>

<p>There are some lovely 360-degree pictures up on <a href="http://www.ecampustours.com%5B/url%5D"&gt;www.ecampustours.com&lt;/a>, with exteriors of the Quad, and some interiors of classrooms, Iglehart Hall, the Randall dining room, etc. (no dorm rooms, however) <a href="http://www.ecampustours.com/VirtualTours/Default.aspx?FafsaCode=002092%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.ecampustours.com/VirtualTours/Default.aspx?FafsaCode=002092&lt;/a> I hope this link works; if not, you may have to register, but it's free and worth the slight hassle. If nothing else, it's possible to get enormous entertainment value from the zoom feature.</p>

<p>Anyway, sorry for the rambling post. Hope this helps.</p>

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<p>That tour is very nice but can not do teh campus any justice. It much nicer in real life</p>

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<p>Can students at SJC pick the dorms they'll live in? How does dorming work there? BTW, I was trying to access stjohnsforum.com, but it demands for a username and password. How do I view the site, or at least register for it?</p>