<p>I heard that all female engineering students are housed in 3 or 4 different dorms. Does anyone know which ones?</p>
<p>Not true. Room assignments are random.</p>
<p>Second Kevdude.</p>
<p>No I'm pretty sure that this is true. At the engineering house my host (and several other students) told me that all female engineers are either in Welsh Family, Farley, Lyons or one of the Pasquerrilla's. I guess this is supposed to be sort of a support system for the female engineers.</p>
<p>Yes, we heard that from some people in swe and by a couple of different counselors in the admissions office. They said this is the only exception to the random assignments and is meant for support. They don't want the female engineering numbers to drop any further than they are.</p>
<p>That's ridiculous. If they do it for female engineers they should do it for male engineers too. Do you know how hard it can be to study engineering when your history major roomie is getting drunk b/c his paper isn't due for three weeks?</p>
<p>No it is not ridiculous of ND to do this for the females. At ND there are 4 male engineers for every 1 female-- so limiting the # of dorms with female engineers ensures that in each of those dorms the % of engineers is more similar to the % in the male dorms (although if there are really 5/12 dorms for female engineers-- the % is still much lower than in the male dorms)</p>
<p>And yes, I know how hard it can be (female engineering mom here-- roomed with business majors)</p>
<p>I am very pleased that ND will do this for my daughter-- because at her other choice schools she would have the option of living with all engineers.</p>
<p>I wish they did this for all engineers--males included~freshman engineering son's roommate is "undecided" about major both fall sem. and this sem. He is only taking 14 hrs./sem while son is at 17 hours both semesters so far. Roommate tells son all the time that he is "bored", while son, up til 2 am most nights, reminded him that he might need to thiink about taking more challenging courses. It does make things difficult sometimes, even tho the roommate is nice and they get along fairly well. Plus, it is pretty common at most schools that males tend to outnumber females in the engineering/sciences/math majors. Glad to see ND is trying to encourage female engineers--just wish it was for all engineers!</p>
<p>20 hours Eng/Physics major with an undecided A & L roomie... got you beat AL</p>
<p>how could they possibly do this? i mean, all first year students are placed into first year of studies. they arent even placed in the college of engineering until sophomore year. i really dont think reslife does it.</p>
<p>Not to get off topic, but check with Putsch--if you are an intended Engineering major, even tho you are in FYS--your hours and workload appear to be vastly different than other majors. Therefore, can you imagine an undecided major as a roommate? The one we know does not get up before 11 AM and has both last semester and this semester looked for only classes after this waking hour and a minimum courseload. It can make things rather interesting if you are an eng. intent and your Chem, Calc or Physics classes are at 8:30 and 9:30 in the mornings with no flexibility on scheduling. Not to mention the workload for those classes! An engineering roommate or engineering dorm might make life easier for all!! The flip side to this coin is that son and roommate for the most part are like ships in the night--just passing through. Unfortunately, if it is ND's thought that housing as it is can help foster new friendships, etc., I just don't think it is happening in son's case. He just doesn't see his roommate enough!!</p>
<p>Alright, as an undecided Arts and Letters major myself, I'm starting to take mild offense to this. I've had a 9:30 class every day all year, and I most certainly did not take classes based on what time they met, I took classes I was interested in and would leave the most options open for me. Yes, engineering might be more difficult as far as course load, but please do not use that to imply that Arts and Letters majors are any less driven or hardworking. I think it's great that some people already know what they have to do, but I don't think most realize how scary and frustrating it is to have no idea what you want to focus in. Arts and Letters is perfectly respectable, and it seems like it's not getting the respect it's due.</p>
<p>No disrespect intended! But, back to the topic at hand, I can certainly understand why ND might be grouping female engineers into a few dorms together. I just wish the same thing was available to male eng. students, esp. during their first year--as I understand it, there are a lot of people that start out in engineering, and then quickly change to another major. And, while females are certainly outnumbered in the eng. field, one wonders if the housing situation might help to foster maintaining the engineering numbers overall if they were all housed together, not just females!</p>
<p>Someone might have already said this, but remember the First Year of Studies? While on your application you indicate a prospective major, this does not put you into the College of Engineering. It is a fallacy that students are grouped by major at ND.</p>
<p>Yeah come on people. The brave students who enter the College of Arts and Leisure are taking their lives into their own hands. I would have to say that A&L deserves at least as much respect as the CoBA (College of Business Administration) Cabana.</p>
<p>How's the weather up there on your high horse?</p>
<p>Not as good as in the CoBA Cabana, I can assure you.</p>
<p>You might be as productive as us business majors if you stopped piddling your time away on this forum.</p>
<p>;)</p>
<p>Psh, business majors aren't productive. My roomie is a business major and she hasn't done anything productive since she got here. But that's OK, because she's far too busy updating her facebook profile to do homework anyway...</p>
<p>Right on Shellzie.</p>