<p>I was given housing in the International Village(North residence hall). Is this the new honors housing? I've tried searching for more info on the international village but haven't come up with much. Any info would be helpful, thanks.</p>
<p>This is the new honors housing. I’m in it as a freshman this year (on my dad’s account, ha ha) and it’s great.</p>
<p>International Village (or IV) itself is right outside Ruggles station on the Orange Line of the T. The address is 1155 Tremont Street. The North tower is the tower with the blue walls, right between the other two. There are 9 floors in north and 22 in east and west. They’re not separate buildings, and are just differentiated by wall color for the lower 9 floors.</p>
<p>It’s great as housing goes. Dining hall in the basement, really nice gym on the second floor, three laundry rooms on the 2nd floor, 14th floor, and 22nd floor respectively. Lots of events and activities and things like that, and you’ll be with every. single. other. honors freshman. ALL of them, so while it’s a little removed from campus you’ll never feel like it because everyone is there.</p>
<p>There are singles and doubles, all suites that share a bathroom with another room (which is WAY awesome).</p>
<p>The walls are kind of thin; you’ll hear EVERYTHING but it’s not so bad. Every floor has a common room in each tower with a TV (flatscreen, like the Northeastern way) and couches and stuff.</p>
<p>Dining hall is great. Lots of food choices, but at the end of the semester it’s not quite as good as at the beginning, but you’ll always have great desserts. </p>
<p>Oh, and the elevator talks. She’s got a different name for everyone (my group in 5th floor north calls her Joan) but she announces whether you’re going up and down, beeps as she passes a floor, and announces the floor. You’ll hear her at night, if you’re close enough to the common room. There are 4 elevators for each tower. Your life in the morning will be spent waiting for one that is a) not full, and b) actually going down to get to classes. </p>
<p>That’s everything I think I would have wanted to know; just say if there’s anything else!</p>
<p>so you’ve already been assigned housing? can the international village or other halls be requested?</p>
<p>IV is for upperclassmen and honors freshmen. Other freshmen can’t request or live there, as of right now. ALL honors freshmen must live in IV, and they must choose a mini-LLC to live in within the honors LLC.</p>
<p>Actually, freshmen might be able to request gender neutral housing, now that I think of it. So I think you could get IV, if you did that.</p>
<p>One correction-- the East tower has 22 floors and the West tower has 19 floors 
(Unless they built three more floors on the West tower since last year haha).</p>
<p>Hey, does anyone know if I have to apply for housing even if I am not sure if I am going to school here ?
I know with some schools you are required to apply regardless, so you can get priority with where you may want to live… but I’m not sure about Northeastern…</p>
<p>how’d you get the housing already!? and do the honors students HAVE to live in International village?</p>
<p>^hdizzle got accepted into for the spring semester last year. I’m a sophomore and was not required to live in IV as an honors freshman, but I think they may have changed it. So if you accept honors, you accept living in IV. Do you not want to live in IV? Let me know if you have any questions about it. It is really nice.</p>
<p>And I don’t think paying your housing deposit early is really that necessary at Northeastern. (I certainly don’t think you’d have to pay it now.)</p>
<p>@blinkangel44: I DO want to live in IV 
it looks so nice!! i was just curious…anddd i just posted a thread about dorms, do u mind answering my questions about dorms? thanks!</p>
<p>what exactly is gender neutral housing?
are you roomed up with a person of opposite sex?</p>
<p>one of the questions in the housing survey is: "If available, would a gender neutral floor be a more comfortable living environment for you?? "</p>
<p>@cherryfilter: haha I answered your other thread before reading your post here :)</p>
<p>@00RxM7: I don’t think you’re necessarily put with a person of the opposite sex, but it’s a possibility. Gender-neutral housing is essentially intended for people of all gender identities and sexual orientations to feel comfortable. I don’t really know anything about it though, so I’m not sure how it ends up working out.</p>
<p>What is the typical, non honors freshman housing?</p>
<p>^What do you mean? Most freshmen live in Stetson East/West, Speare, White, etc. Just a typical dorm room with two beds, two desks, two dressers. Some are nicer than others.</p>
<p>So what the best housing a freshman can live in other than International Village?
And is there anyway a nonhonors student can be put into the IV by asking for gender neutral housing, or other stuff?
I am a pharmd student and I want live with a Bouve LLC</p>
<p>Ask for “Is IV required for honors freshmen?”- I’m like 90% sure it is now. They are very very big nowadays on the mini-LLCs within honors and using them as part of an extension to the freshmen honors class… It’s a little intense. So I’m pretty sure it was required this year.</p>
<p>Gender Neutral is for anyone who would feel more comfortable living with people of both genders. It’s all singles attached by bathrooms, so you’d never actually have a roommate of a different gender, but you could have a suitemate (shared bathroom) with one. The way it is marked in the system is “U” (I seem to remember…) which just means that EITHER male or female could go in. So even if you’re female, you won’t ALWAYS get/pick (picking is upperclassmen only) a male suitemate, but it’s possible. Some use it sexual orientation preferences, but then others use it because they’d honestly just be more comfortable sharing a space with someone of the opposite gender. I don’t see why it WOULDNT be offered to freshmen… However I seem to recall hearing an RA friend of mine mention how she had a few students (not in the LLC) complain that they had wanted it due to sexual orientation, but it had been full. But I also heard they were trying to/going to make it larger next year. To be honest, I’ve visited a lot of other schools, and a LOT have suites nowadays that are mixed gender. I’m surprised more of the dorms aren’t like this.</p>
<p>^Great explanation of gender neutral housing-- I never knew some of that!</p>
<p>And I don’t know if they say which LLCs are in which dorms year to year, so it really doesn’t matter which freshmen dorms are best since you really have no choice. For the most part, all the freshmen dorms are typical freshmen dorms that you’d find at most colleges. IV has a lot of conveniences, and the private bathrooms are nice, but the other freshmen dorms aren’t awful or anything.</p>
<p>can we pick our roommates? i have some ppl from my school i might want to room with</p>
<p>What they said^^^</p>
<p>thank you so much, that cleared everything up. I was admitted to Northeastern as a spring start, and I am not an honors student, so I’m a little surprised that I got honors housing… Oh well, “take what ya get,” I suppose. </p>
<p>I believe northeastern gives people housing based on a lottery/seniority. My mom tried calling in a few weeks ago to request kennedy for me, but they were not accepting requests for housing. </p>
<p>I believe other freshman housing is pretty standard. I think kennedy is suite style, which is why I tried requesting it. I’m personally really satisfied with how IV sounds. I attended umass amherst this past fall semester and I hated the dorm style living there. This should be much better.</p>