<p>Pierce is awful. In my humble opinion. Some people like it.</p>
<p>Pierce food is not amazing like Bartlett's, no. </p>
<p>But it is in our dorm... and yea, that's kinda nice when it's cold out... :)</p>
<p>That's the most comprehensive thread on dorms that we have running.</p>
<p>Hitchcock is co-ed by "floor." As any Hitchcockian can explain, H is organized in vertical columns (sections) and in order to get from the third floor of section 2 to the third floor of section 3, you have to go alll the way downstairs and then all the way upstairs again. Each floor in each section has a hall bathroom, and that bathroom is de facto single-sex, because everybody on the section-floor is of the same sex.</p>
<p>But is it also co-ed by sections?</p>
<p>yes, it's just single sex alternating by floor.</p>
<p>It depends on what your personality is like / what you're looking for. However, Max P is by far the cleanest dorm. (And by that I mean it's the newest, so the bathrooms aren't covered by years of shower mold.)</p>
<p>Broadview is old and grimey. The floors creak, the bathroom floors are gross, the whole place smells like my grandmother's house. Also, it's far from campus (which is both a pro and con depending on what you prefer).</p>
<p>Snell is also old and grimey, but people from Snell can wear flip-flops to class due to their amazing location on the quad.</p>
<p>Pierce is pretty disgusting and can get unbearably hot during O-Week and finals week in Spring (think: giant clay oven) and is also the farthest from the Quad of the on-campus dorms. That being said, Pierce is the ONLY dorm where the dining hall is completely attached (meaning you can go downstairs wearing whatever you want regardless of the weather outside).</p>
<p>B-J is as disgusting as Pierce. (Except with wood instead of concrete.) Also the B-J dining hall is the worst out of the three.</p>
<p>Someone needs to grow up a bit. Sorry, Princess: it's a dorm, not a Four Seasons.</p>
<p>All of the UChicago dorms are either palaces or comparable compared to the dorms I had stayed in during summer programs at various college campuses.</p>
<p>Re: Hitchcock, it's worth noting (since most/many people stay in the dorm) that the upper-class sections are mostly co-ed room-by-room, unlike the six firstie floors.</p>
<p>Also, both Snell and Hitchcock are in pretty good shape other than carpets and some plaster here and there, but Snell is definitely better on that front (though it is also less elaborate).</p>
<p>I disagree strongly with glomp on Broadview.</p>