Dorms

<p>Follow this link to some pictures of my room in Morewood E-Tower if you'd like to see what a typical dorm room looks like. I had a standard double (shared floor bathroom) and it was a very good experience, in part because I had a great roommate. All the furniture in the pictures comes with the room except the rickety stool. Most rooms in E-Tower have one normal bed and one lofted bed, but you can get two of a kind if you find someone to trade with.</p>

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<p>Mudge has rooms about the same size; Hammerschlag's are a notably smaller, as are Scobell's. If you have any questions about dorms, I'd be happy to answer them.</p>

<p>Morewood E rooms look pretty big. I'm happy I picked it as my 1st chioce. </p>

<p>How big are the closets?</p>

<p>Do you have any pics of New House doubles?</p>

<p>I only have pictures of E tower (since that's where I lived).</p>

<p>The closets run from the corner near the main entry to the wall; there's a bar to hang stuff from with a shelf above it.</p>

<p>thanks for the pics</p>

<p>i'm going to miss my room :( and my bathroom :(</p>

<p>krazy have you been in any of the apartments or otherwise off campus dorms and if so do you have an impression? (I will have a really high lottery number so I'm not certain where I'll be at all)</p>

<p>I've been in most of the off campus apartments, since I went to visit them when I was determining where I would live next year (I'll be in the other part of Morewood). Some of them are very nice, some of them are not-so-nice. The main disadvantage is being on a meal plan and living far enough away that going to the campus food places is a pain. My roommate had some friends that lived off campus who would hang out in our room after classes if they had obligations later that evening and they were too lazy to walk back to their apartments. They never seemed that unhappy about having apartments. </p>

<p>I'm convinced that a girl I met during orientation week who told me she lived in Cathedral Mansions was living in E-Tower by the end of the year, so you may be able to move on campus once people move into frats/sororities.</p>

<p>Find the Morewood suite with the faux fireplace, cathedral ceiling and open beams.</p>

<p>really nice pics!...someone is a big fan of matrix :) !...anyways i like the room a lot especially because the ample sunlight...thank god morewood e is my first choice!!</p>

<p>The matrix, star wars, and spiderman posters all belonged to my roommate. I promised to buy a Johnny Depp poster for the wall, but I never got around to it...</p>

<p>Sunlight varies a bit depending on what side you're on; my room overlooked the Forbes/Morewood intersection, which was kind of cool (I could see if people were wearing coats or not), but it meant that the night of the Superbowl I couldn't go to sleep until 1:30 because everyone driving down Forbes was honking their horns.</p>

<p>I lived in New House last year, here's my experience.</p>

<p>First of all, New House is an ALL FRESHMEN dorm. This works to your benefit - everyone is looking to make friends and you're all in the same/similar courses.</p>

<p>Second, New House is the newest dorm on campus (surprise surprise). But seriously, it looks like a freeking hotel. It's very very nice.</p>

<p>Third, New House is the only dorm on campus with air conditioning. I always had this going (even in the winter) - I like sleeping under the blankets :). But this really helps in the first month and the last month of school year.</p>

<p>I guess the one "downfall" (if you can call it that) are the smaller rooms. I would argue this was done on purpose. The lounges of New House are extremely nice (tv lounges, study lounges, mini-lounges, etc.). The smaller rooms force you out of your dorm (when you aren't working) and into the lounges. I knew everyone on my floor extremely well because of this.</p>

<p>bump...</p>

<p>I figure some people new to the board probably want to see dorm pics.</p>

<p>Where is that fancy Morewood suite? Is it first floor D tower?</p>

<p>do those trashcans/yellow chair come with the room?</p>

<p>I saw an email from an RA (I think) that said they just checked, and all of the rooms have trash cans. And I think the chairs are standard (maybe not yellow, but chairs none-the-less)</p>

<p>The picture is from a standard double in E Tower.</p>

<p>Trashcans come with the room, as do the blue chairs, but the yellow stool is a rickety wooden thing I picked up from outside the Art Store- it said trash on it. Also, desk lamps come with the rooms, but aren't in the pictures because I didn't use mine and my roommate bought a better one.</p>

<p>Its A604. As fancy as it gets at CMU.</p>