<p>So, ive been accepted and couldnt be any happier! I wanted to know how dorming works for freshmen, and I hear that Pembroke is the newest and best dormatory on campus?! is there any other advice/suggestions for dorms</p>
<p>LOL! Does Brown have <em>any</em> dorms that would be considered "best." They are all pretty crappy.</p>
<p>bpatel, you don't get a choice. Brown picks for you. The only choice you have is if you want to live in a substance-free environment, and that floor has in the past been in Perkins, which is the dorm farthest from campus with relatively small rooms.</p>
<p>About half of the freshman class lives in Keeney Quad, so that's very social and a little zoolike, but the rooms are decent size. Pembroke dorms are not new, unless you consider 1960s to be new. But some of the Pembroke dorms have a fitness center and cafeteria right in the building, and that's nice. Everyone gets a double, BTW.</p>
<p>Anyway, none of this matters much because you don't get to choose. Instead, spend your time figuring out which classes to take -- now there, you have a world of wonderful choices.</p>
<p>Are the dorms really that crappy?? I didn't know that.</p>
<p>I think if you request quiet housing you New Pembroke #2, which is on Pembroke campus. It's an okay dorm. They have semi-private baths (you can close the door and lock it but you share it with everyone) I also believe.</p>
<p>Pembroke Campus is not the newest or best. Keeney is good for meeting people. Pembroke campus is quiet. I live in a single on Pembroke and I like it however the building I'm in is in need of some attention as are many others at Brown. By the time you'll have access to most they may be renovated or remodeled as most are slated for work this summer or next. The newest dorm is Vartan Gregorian Quad(either one) but it's only for upper classman so don't worry about it. They aren't THAT bad, nicer than most apartments I've rented anyway.</p>
<p>In my travels to college campuses, I have definitely seen dorms worse than Brown's. I have seen smaller dorm rooms turned into forced triples, which is probably the worst. </p>
<p>I am a big advocate for Brown, and I adore the place, but to be honest, one does not pick Brown for its dorm rooms. There are a few nice ones, mostly for upper classmen. They aren't dreadful, I've seen a lot of apartments that are worse, too. But if you are expecting large rooms, architectural touches, high ceilings and fireplaces -- go elsewhere. Most of the dorms consist of functional doubles off of hallways. Which, frankly, is great for socializing.</p>
<p>my room has very high ceilings fyi. i have two windows and i can stand in them and they are taller than me</p>
<p>I must say Littlefield is the best dorm, nothing else quite matches up to it, lucky freshmen</p>
<p>Sly is pretty much correct. My D is a first-year at Pembroke 3. It is pretty crappy. When we dropped her off in September I think my tongue was bleeding from not saying anything. But she made it her own, she loves her roommate, and it was home for the year. I must say, she is eager to move to Soph housing, though, wherever that may be. Even though the housing lottery has been, and continues to be a source of stress. The dorm mattered more to me than to her, but that might just be us.</p>
<p>Brown has far better freshman housing than most places my friends go.</p>
<p>The problem is the housing doesn't get significantly better at any point. More privacy, but similar size and condition.</p>
<p>You have no choice as an incoming freshman, so I wouldn't even worry about it.</p>
<p>Later, well-- there are a lot of advantages and disadvantages to most of the housing on campus. I'm off campus and I love it-- there is plenty of housing in the area that's excellent that costs about the same (or less if you're sharing) than any on campus housing with more space-- in bedrooms, in living rooms, and in kitchens.</p>
<p>I actually live closer to GeoChem (where I take pretty much all of my classes) now that I'm off campus than I did when I was on campus. So it's really not living "off-campus" like at other places where you'd have to drive to class.</p>