<p>We visited the freshman dorm, and it was kind of depressing. Are that all like that?</p>
<p>Which building did you visit? If it was St. Martins, St. Annes, or Towers, yes, the rooms tend to be a little small. Assumption has the biggest rooms for freshmen (honors dorms). That is if you meant depressing as in small rooms, that is. If you meant depressing as in decorations/colors, don’t worry about it, you won’t even recognize the rooms/halls 2 weeks into term.</p>
<p>I think we were in the towers, as it was a pretty tall building. The rooms were very small and it was dark and dreary. Frankly, the room we were in smelled. The common areas were quite spartan too. But as you said, that might be different after students move in.</p>
<p>Towers looks almost like 3 buildings put together. St. Martins is a little shorter, and is freshmen only. Towers is where all of the Sophomores not in the honors college, and juniors who didn’t get Brottier or Vickroy, live. I know they are redoing most, if not all, of the rooms, so who knows what it will look like come beginning of term. I’ve never been into either, so I can’t tell you how small the rooms are, all I know is that it’s common knowledge that Assumption offers the biggest rooms for freshmen. Another thing is people don’t tend to spend too much in the common areas- they either spend it in rooms, outside, or in the library, or at least from my experience that’s what happens.</p>
<p>Thanks james! I guess we might have actually been in St. Martins, as the guide said that is was the freshman dorm. What do you think about the honors dorms? It is cool to live there, or nerdy?</p>
<p>Honors dorms are awesome. We have quiet hours (which are enforced pretty well), room enough that it doesn’t feel squeezed in, the small bit of happiness with the knowledge that we have more room than other freshmen (not like in an evil way, because its not THAT big of a difference in reality lol), and the ability to be able to talk to at least someone in your hall about whatever class you have (since some are honors) if you have questions (most students in the hall, at least for me, took their studies seriously, so you could always find someone to study with that is focused on their work).</p>
<p>Some people are nerdy, but the majority of the people there are pretty average I would think. The cool places to live are Vickroy and Brottier, which is for juniors and seniors mostly, although a few sophomores do live in the rooms that are left over. There isn’t really a cool place to live for freshmen and sophomores, sorry :P</p>
<p>Our tour guide told us that most juniors and seniors move off campus (to the south side, I presume). What is your take on this?</p>
<p>I wouldn’t say most of them do. I’d say a portion, maybe around half do. I couldn’t guess at the numbers, but I don’t think most of them live there, because there is always a rush to get Brottier and Vickroy (Brottier isn’t a small building) so it’s hard to say. The South Side is a popular place to move, since it’s so close. I know a lot of the graduate students live on the South Side (I’m not even sure if they can stay on campus, I should look into this). There isn’t currently (although they were working on establishing one, student government is) a shuttle from the South Side to Duquesne, so students have to pay for a parking pass ($500+ dollars) if they live off of campus.</p>
<p>I went to a high school with around 4,000 people. Over 900 in my graduating class and I don’t feel that Duquesne is too small or easily outgrown. I didn’t know anyone prior to coming here though, which may affect how someone from the Pittsburgh region may feel about it. It seems that lots of locals attend so maybe if you are going to school with half your high school it would seem smaller. But I as an outsider love the school. I still don’t know enough people for the school to seem small. Campus isn’t dead on the weekends it may just seem that way because the location of the houses isnt condusive to the students walking around campus on the weekends and since no one works on the weekends and it in the heart of the city, there is none of that kind of traffic on weekends. However, SouthSide where the upper classmen live is very lively on the weekends. The bars on Carson are crazy every weekend because people from all over Pittsburgh go to Carson for the bars.</p>
<p>I’m trying to choose between majoring in marketing at Pittsburgh University vs majoring in health supply chain management at duquesne university which will hopefully lead to a future in pharmaceutical business. Student life seems to be so much more diverse and fun at Pittsburgh but Duquesne is awesome in a completely different way. As for my future career, I’m hoping that if I go to Duquesne I’d be employed by Mylan Pharmaceuticals in the future but if I go to Pitt the major is more broad filled with an expansion of career opportunities. I’m trying to pick based off where I’d enjoy college life more and where I’d receive better chances of a successful well-paid future. Does anyone have opinions on which of the two I should choose?</p>