<p>How are the dorms like at Princeton, specifically for frosh?</p>
<p>Over the summer, you will be assigned as a freshman after you fill out your residential questionnaire and your A.B/B.S.E forms and stuff to one of the six (formerly five) residential colleges. The names of these colleges are:</p>
<p>Rockefeller College (Rocky)
Mathey College
Wilson College
Forbes College (The Inn)
Butler College
Whitman College (the newest res college, opening in September 2007).</p>
<p>Each of these residential colleges are pretty different from one another, and are located all across campus. Mathey and Rocky are located in the upper part of campus, Whitman and Wilson are near the lower-middle of campus, below Dillon Gymnasium, Butler College is in the extreme lower part of campus, and Forbes College is on Alexander Road slightly farther away from the rest of campus. </p>
<p>Just so you know, the majority of Butler College, called Butler Quad, is being demolished over the summer to make way for New Butler College, scheduled to open in 2008 I believe. </p>
<p>Once you are a freshman, you will live in your assigned residential college for that year and your following sophomore year. After that, most will move on to upperclass dormitories, which are located all over the western half of campus, and starting next year, you may opt to join one of the two four-year residential colleges, Mathey and Whitman. </p>
<p>Each residential college has its own reputation and special "area" within the campus, although the res colleges are more open at Princeton than they are at Yale, for example.
Rockefeller College is centered around Holder Quad, which contains a big courtyard and a tower. Off of Holder area, you also have Little Hall, which is near Dillon Gym, and Buyers Hall, which consists of the half of Blair arch extending away from Mathey Quad. All of their buildings are in the gothic style and holder rooms often have wood floors and sealed fireplaces. </p>
<p>Mathey College is mainly centered in Mathey Quad, with their dining hall in Madison Hall. Blair Hall is the largest dormitory, and takes up most of the quad. Off the quad is Edwards Hall, which is a tall older building on Elm Drive. Mathey Quad is a very busy area, and all of the quad buildings are in the gothic style. </p>
<p>Wilson College is located just below Prospect Gardens. It consists of mostly newer buildings built in the 1960s as the first residential college at Princeton. The buildings of 1937 Hall, 1939 Hall, Feinberg Hall, Dodge-Osborne Hall, Clapp Hall, and 1927 Hall. Walker Hall, although originally not part of Wilson, houses students from both Wilson and Butler Colleges. Gauss Hall and 1938 Hall are located off of the main quad. The dining hall is Wilcox Hall in the southwest corner of the quad. Wilson boasts some of the largest suites on campus, many housing 7 or 8 students in rooms with many smaller rooms (often doubles) connecting to a central common area. The largest room in Wilson, Gauss 211, houses 10 Wilson students in a 2-story enclave. There is also another large room in Dodge-Osborne. Clapp is all 3 room quads, and the others are mixed bags. </p>
<p>Butler College is going to exist in a very limited form for the next year or two. I believe most of its students will be living in Scully and Bloomberg Halls, which are located on the lower edge of campus near Poe Field. Its dining hall is Wu Hall, a building attached to Wilcox Hall. All of these buildings are quite new, built within the last 5-10 years.</p>
<p>Forbes College, formerly the Princeton Inn, is located off Alexander Street past the train station. Its dorms consist of the the Inn, the Forbes Annex, and the Forbes Addition. Most of these rooms are doubles. </p>
<p>Whitman College, our newest residential college, is located right beside Spelman Hall, and extends to near Butler College, across Elm Drive. It is also located next to the train station. It is a huge complex, and since no one has been inside it yet, I cannot tell you exactly what the rooms are like. However, it is supposed to have a huge variety of different room arrangements, and may end up being one of the larger res colleges on campus. Whitman is built in the collegiate gothic style.</p>
<p>As you can see, you could practically end up anywhere. Just know that most rooms on campus are very nice, near a bathroom, and etc. You will not find any dorms in severe disrepair. I would recommend going on the Princeton website and searching for the residential college program page to learn more about the residential colleges.</p>
<p>I hope this was helpful,</p>
<p>tokyorevelation9</p>
<p>hows bout laundry</p>
<p>Absolutely free my friend. Theres usually one or two laundry areas per residential college, and you don't have to pay a coin. Just bring your own detergent and dryer sheets and you're ready to go.</p>
<p>You can also sign up for the student laundry, which picks up your laundry at one of two times per week, and returns the washed and folded clothes during their next laundry day (Sent Thursday-Return Monday, but if sent Monday-Return Thursday).</p>
<p>This service has a charge associated with it, and you sign up at the start of the year.</p>
<p>That is fabulous news :D:D:D:D</p>
<p>finally free laundry life is goood</p>
<p>wow, thanks for all the info!</p>
<p>sooo we still have a small chance of getting into Butler? are Scully and Bloomberg just not being demolished for some reason?</p>
<p>scully is upperclassman housing, and unavailable to butlerites. both scully and bloomberg are very new (as you can tell, if you've been inside), and generally look more "modern" than the rest of butler. i imagine they're not being razed because they fit in more with the idea of the new butler.
instead, butlerites for a few years will occupy 1915, bloomberg, and cuyler halls. cuyler for 06-07 was upperclassman housing, and though the interior hasn't been renovated recently, it has a nice location and the most picturesque quad (so cute!) i've seen on campus.</p>
<p>a couple other things:
*whitman consists almost entirely of quads and singles<br>
*rocky, starting next year, will consist of holder, witherspoon, buyers, and part of campbell. pretty much all the buildings are nice, with the possible exception of campbell (which they're stealing from mathey this year).
*mathey, starting next year, will consist of blair, joline, part of campbell, part of little, and edwards. joline and campbell haven't been renovated for a little while, so the interior of those two are worse than blair/edwards/little (renovated over the summer)
*getting sorted into residential colleges is COMPLETELY RANDOM. writing that you want to be in an 8-person suite does NOT increase the chances of you being in wilson. students are randomly sorted at first before housing looks at your housing forms.</p>
<p>if you have any other questions about housing, feel free to ask--my roommate and i have been learning lots about it these past few weeks :)</p>
<p>Ah, thanks for the update quirkily. I was sure somebody told me that part of Scully was going to be used for Butlerites, but I guess that was misinformation. </p>
<p>Why are Rocky and Mathey splitting Little and Campbell? That doesn't seem to make any sense.</p>
<p>Notes:</p>
<ul>
<li><p>quirkily - You forgot that Hamilton Hall is also part of Rocky. </p></li>
<li><p>As for Bloomberg, it was built in 2004, so there is no intention to remove that building. When the New Butler Quad is completed, I'm pretty sure it will still be a part of Butler College.</p></li>
<li><p>Here is the site that has a lot of information about Whitman College, renderings, maps, and floorplans. <a href="http://www.princeton.edu/rc/map/whitman/%5B/url%5D">http://www.princeton.edu/rc/map/whitman/</a></p></li>
<li><p>This site has info about the New Butler Quad and the plans they have in store for Butler College. <a href="http://www.princeton.edu/rc/map/butler/%5B/url%5D">http://www.princeton.edu/rc/map/butler/</a></p></li>
<li><p>Here is the overall site that has links to all of the residential college websites and information about the residential college system.
<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/rc/%5B/url%5D">http://www.princeton.edu/rc/</a></p></li>
</ul>
<p>tokyo</p>
<p>hamilton is part of mathey, and i have absolutely no clue why rocky/mathey are splitting campbell. they aren't splitting little, however, which makes sense given that mathey's going to be four-year.</p>
<p>Probably because Campbell is divided by that arch, and makes the most sense to give to Rocky (unfortunately for us). All of the other buildings in the Mathey quad are connected through the basement or over the arch where Quirkily lives (right?) And they can't give us Hamilton because it's where the Mathey college office and dining hall are. Grr...</p>
<p>Oh, did I write Hamilton...I meant Madison.</p>
<p>madison technically belongs to rocky, but it doesn't house anyone, so it's pretty much irrelevant.
joline and campbell are connected through the basement, but blair and joline aren't.</p>
<p>Butler will actually be one of the best residential colleges for the next few years, as bloomberg is brand new and air conditioned and pretty inside, 1915 is the nicest of the old butler building, and cuyler used to be upper class housing, which means that it has a variety of room configurations. Although they generally made the occupancy one more person than upperclass housing (ie it used to have mainly triples, now it has mainly quads) there are still several 2 room doubles which is basically unheard of for underclassmen housing. I'm not sure what they are going to do with bloomberg after the construction of new butler, as it was originally used only as upperclass housing. It was added to butler when the class size was increased by a bit, although even then it was only split between upperclass and butler. Butler has steadily taken over, but that may change with the addition of whitman and new butler, but I'm not sure. </p>
<p>also whitman is mainly singles and quads, but the upperclassmen took almost all of the good singles, so you're left with small singles and really nice 3 room quads (seniors also took all of the 5 rooms quads). It will be interesting to see how whitman works out, because there were only a set number of non-freshman in each building, not a set number of each class. Good rooms were clustered into certain buildings, so for example, I know that seniors took nearly all of the non freshman rooms in fisher, which means that the building will consist of seniors and freshmen.</p>
<p>forbes used to be a hotel, so it consists of hotel rooms, meaning that there are very few suites. It's nearly all singles and doubles.</p>
<p>For anyone who is lucky enough to get assigned to Bloomberg as a freshman - celebrate. Air conditioning, hardwood floors, a single, nice bathrooms.....</p>
<p>this is a pretty cool site with live camera views of whitman, which someone posted a while back: <a href="http://www.princeton.edu/%7Ewhitman/%5B/url%5D">http://www.princeton.edu/~whitman/</a></p>
<p>This question may have been answered elsewhere, but does anybody have ANY preference in where they end up? I've read before that some colleges are much more social than others, and what if you are really interested in being in an extremely social living environment? I know it's not like other schools where there's some kind of lottery and you can write your preferences, but is there any way that you are 'matched' with a college, or is it just random?</p>
<p>j07 - don't worry about the residential college you get put into etc. My D is wildly social, and wound up in Butler in a single and was upset at first. All turned out fine. Next door neighbor girl in single in Butler? Now best friend and roommate for upcoming junior year. And she developed a pod of friends from Butler that is huge. And for the extremely social, the eating clubs are a godsend. Just remember you can get passes and you will enjoy yourself.</p>
<p>completely random--you'll be put in your college before they even look at your housing preference sheet.
i don't think anyone should worry though--each college has its pros and cons--rocky and mathey won't be far and away the most desired any more, i don't think.</p>