<p>As a first year student in Muir this fall, what do you recommend for housing, apartments or residence halls? Pros/cons?</p>
<p>res halls are more social/conducive to making new friends (which you’ll need to do as a freshman). the job of the HA is to get their house to socialize and interact with one another. you’ll get really close with your housemates, and likely live with them your second year in the apartments. (and in case you don’t know, Muir is set up into “houses” as opposed to floors with an RA, which is what every other college does. each two floors constitutes a house. e.g. floors 1 & 2 are A house, 3 & 4 are B house, etc.) the apartments are also set up in this style, but it’s not as social as the dorms are.
i would never suggest apartments for a first year. when you live in the apartments, you have your group of friends, but you definitely don’t socialize with a lot of the other people you live next to, unless you met them prior to moving in.</p>
<p>OK thanks that’s what I’ve been thinking. Res hall it is :D</p>
<p>I agree with paradise. But as an fyi, you wouldn’t get the apartments as a first year, anyways. In fact, every year some second years even don’t get into the Muir apartments and have to either live in the dorms or a different part of campus.</p>