Freshman Housing Question

<p>I was reading on the website that freshmen live in LLC's. I was wondering if it is REQUIRED for freshmen to live in the living learning communities or if it just an option. Please let me know!</p>

<p>I was talking to my friends the other day, and recently they announced that the class of 2016 and all future classes after must stay on campus for their freshmen and sophomores years of school and this includes a required stay in an LLC</p>

<p>ohhh okay. do you get assigned to an LLC or can you choose. Personally I am applying as a graphic design major and one of the reason i want to come to Northeastern is because A. Its an amazing school, and B. although i am an art major i wanted to avoid the stereotypical artsy hipster crowd, and i feel like being in an Art LLC will compromise that…</p>

<p>As a tour guide, we were told that you will have to live on campus- but not that you have to do all LLC. So if it’s important to you, call admissions and get the officially word.</p>

<p>All honors freshmen however are divided into LLCs within the honors LLC.</p>

<p>really neuchimie? i thought i saw in the huntington news last week that all class of 2016 freshman needed to live at least 2 years on campus and be in an llc. but then again, i only skimmed the first page.</p>

<p>I read that as well.</p>

<p>They could be right, but it’s always better to call and ask if it matters to you. </p>

<p>The two year required on campus this is definitely correct though. I’m just saying when we were told about the change, it was only two years required- nothing about LLCs.</p>

<p>regarding the Art LLC: I was in it last year in International Village and there were no artsy hipster people, but a mix of people who applied just so that they could live in IV and extremely talented mellow people.</p>

<p>We didn’t have much money allocated to have programs from ResLife (according to our RA) but it might have been more this year seeing as my year was the first year for the Art LLC.</p>

<p>okay that does give me a little bit of relief haha. What is international village like? Do you still get the typical college freshman dorm experience?
I was reading in Impact magazine that i was sent a few days ago about freshmen housing. It said that freshmen must live in 1 of 11 residence halls with the option of living in a Living Learning Community. That made it seem like there was a choice but then again I can’t be too sure, i will probably call the admissions office.</p>

<p>I came across this article in the Huntington News that says that freshmen and sophomores will be required to live on campus. It also mentions that they plan to increase the number of LLCs - but it does not appear that they will be required; see the note at the end of the article: </p>

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<p>[Sophomores</a> to stay on campus | The Huntington News](<a href=“http://huntnewsnu.com/2010/09/sophomores-to-stay-on-campus/]Sophomores”>http://huntnewsnu.com/2010/09/sophomores-to-stay-on-campus/)</p>

<p>haha Hunt News always messes up…</p>

<p>I heard in the Creative LLC, you get to paint the walls… I want that LLC.</p>

<p>Wait, what?! This year? I’m jealous…we tried to make a gallery in our hallway because we were annoyed at the lack of programs and the fire department came to tell us that the art was a fire hazard…</p>

<p>maddz: it depends really on what you define as a ‘typical’ college freshman dorm experience. I know I felt out of place when my friends in White, Stetson etc. were complaining about communal bathrooms haha! </p>

<p>I feel like for a freshman dorm, IV is very isolated from everything. Both Stetsons, Speare, White, Light, 153, even Kennedy, they’re very interconnected and they have events going on in the freshman quad that all these dorms can participate in.
IV is even more isolating because it is so self-sufficient: you’ve got the dining hall, gym, laundry, Peet’s and Jamba Juice in the building. I know I’ve had (cold!) weekends where I literally did not leave the building. It’s amazing for a freshman to be in there because of the private bathrooms, how clean the building smells like (haha) and how efficient it really is (work requests get filled in about 30 minutes) but would I stay there again as a sophomore? Absolutely not.</p>

<p>thank you for that insight! When i visited i really enjoyed the stetson east res hall. In general it did seem like that area was very connected. Seeing my sister go off to college she went through the typical cramped dorm room with communal bathrooms and hardly any closet space and she said it was the best year of her life. Everyone had their doors open to make new friends, she was able to meet people with DIFFERENT and diverse interests (the reason I am not too anxious to opt for the LLC option) and made life long friends. Seeing her go through this made me want a similar experience which i feel i am more likely to get by not living in international village.</p>

<p>I felt that the dorms in Stetson dorms were relatively small after seeing them on the tour. Maybe it had to do with the fact that there were 40 people on the tour all trying to fit into the rooms, but having attended a summer camp at RPI and visited my cousin at RIT, I felt that both of those dorms had bigger rooms (even for freshmen).</p>

<p>Yeah no one really left their door open on my floor but we got together frequently in the common room. I couldn’t justify living near the freshman quad because of the abundance of drunken people vomiting and screaming at 1 am on thirsty thursdays/weekends (and yet I live next to the freshman quad now on St Stephen Street…).</p>

<p>Stetson rooms are slightly better than Speare (horrible horrible tiny!) but rooms in White & 153 are pretty awesome.</p>

<p>and which dorms make up the freshman quad?</p>

<p>The Stetsons and speare mainly, but white is right across the street. Then behind the stetsons on Hemenway are Smith & Kennedy, which is also a pretty lively freshman/sophomore area.</p>

<p>My son is a freshman at NU and was in Stetson for the first few weeks…but has since move to White with roommates more in-line with his interests. He loves it!</p>

<p>My son is a freshman in IV and absolutely loves it. It takes less than five minutes to walk across Ruggles station and smack into the center of the campus. He’s made a lot of friends and they are always doing something, be it official or unofficial.</p>

<p>Another thing he likes is that everyone is in honor colleges, hence the craziness gets held down to a reasonable level so that work can get done.</p>

<p>There are pros and cons to IV for Freshman. It is a beautiful new high rise building, but not the traditional dorms of my college days. The doubles with connecting bathrooms are very nice, but students don’t see each other as much as in the “bathroom down the hall” dorms. Also with continuous dining hall hours, there are probably not the same opportunities for bunches of kids to congregate in the hall to “all go down to dinner together”. </p>

<p>I thought that walking thru Ruggles station to get to class would be a bummer, but my son does not seem to mind. The glass domed roof does give nice protection from the weather. </p>

<p>Most freshman live on the other side of campus. I’ve encouraged my son to do some of his meals there too.</p>