<p>I don’t think that freshmen can live off campus to begin with…</p>
<p>Plus, you will love wherever you are just because of the people. Trust the advice above.</p>
<p>Wildcat-- if I drew you for a roomie I’d either kill myself or you-- what a self centered little whiner. yuk.</p>
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<p>My son, the Tech Guy, who got put in a South Campus Res Col, told me last night that his request to get moved to a residence up North was approved. </p>
<p>He emailed his now ex-roomie - who seemed like a great guy - and then emailed his new roomie. Nice to see that the NU Admin does care and sometimes can actually do something about student preferences. The irony is that he was getting used to the idea of where they put him originally, and would have been happy there too.</p>
<p>Good luck to everyone else trying to work the system. :)</p>
<p>You are quite possibly the most ridiculous person I have seen on the Internet in a while. You think that, because you pay full price for Northwestern, you deserve a better dorm? Never mind that the living conditions are pretty much the same across the large majority of the dorms on campus.</p>
<p>You are a freshman. You will get screwed over on things. You will have the last pick of classes for an entire year. You will have crappy dining hall food. You will meet people you don’t like and you will do things you really did not expect to do.</p>
<p>Deal with it. It’s part of college (not Northwestern specifically) and part of life. If you want to hide from it, you can do it with enough money but hell, the money should not be the issue here.</p>
<p>“True, but considering I received no FA, I dont think it’s fair I didn’t get a better dorm.”</p>
<p>Right. All the FA kids should be put in the worst dorms, while the children of privilege should get the new or remodeled ones. And of course you should have gotten your pick of the best freshman seminars! The full-pay kids should get to choose first, and then what’s left can go to the students who lack the financial advantages you and others have enjoyed. Money talks!</p>
<p>I don’ t believe that residential life in any college is aware of any student’s Financial Aid vs. full-pay situation.</p>
<p>Yes it isnt fair. I have SICK parents because of how hard they work. I would consider myself very privileged if my parents didn’t work and didn’t have to pay $240k for NU, not working hard for it.</p>
<p>and I’m not living with centipedes. that’s disgusting and I would see myself spending many weekends/nights somewhere else. nugraddad sounds like he was put in Elder. I definitely regret not asking about a room change now because I thought it wasn’t an option… I’m honestly not a spoiled brat, my parents think everything is a waste of money so I guess that’s where my mentality comes from, I’m just asking for overhead light and no pests. read the housing review for sargent and compare with any other and then tell me if it seems appealing.</p>
<p>^ You have to consider that’s ONE person’s review of living there.</p>
<p>for the love of god will you please stop whining about how you got your last choice dorm at one of the best schools in the world. i lived at northwestern for five weeks this summer in a pretty outdated dorm and i loved every minute of it because of the people i met. you will be fine if you change your attitute!</p>
<p>All I honestly am asking from this thread is whether or not housing off campus is still an option after paying the deposit. It’s my choice how I spend my parents’ hard earned money and being comfortable is my choice as of now. NU is an amazing school and they should get their act together because my seminar, from what I’m told, should have been in my top ten and the fact that my state’s dorms are in much better condition than one of the richest schools in the US surprises me
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<p>If you truly cared about sparing your parents the need to work themselves sick you’d have chosen U of I or a less-prestigious school where you could have gotten some decent merit aid. ANY dorm can have centipedes (or worse–bedbugs). And overhead lighting isn’t good for reading or studying anyway. You have a few weeks before school starts. Spend your time online looking for recommendations on the best desk lamps. And theforestagain is right–by all means, quit whining and try to improve your attitude.</p>
<p>“All I honestly am asking from this thread is whether or not housing off campus is still an option after paying the deposit.”</p>
<p>THEN CALL THE SCHOOL.</p>
<p>I already did but I meant when I originally posted. Thanks and bugs make me very uncomfortable as stupid as it sounds. Don’t want to choke my roommate with all the big sprang I will be spraying.</p>
<p>And my parents decided NU because they know what a good school it is. The money issue bothers me waaaaaaaaay more than them.</p>
<p>Look, I get the bug thing. I lived in Bobb-McCulloch and there were bugs there too. Just because you only know about centipede sightings in Sargent does not mean the other dorms don’t also have them. When I moved into an off-campus apartment, we actually had live cockroaches in the freezer. It was disgusting. You obviously aren’t yet familiar with some of the notorious Evanston slumlords who rent to students.</p>
<p>If you and your parents have decided NU is worth the cost, then you need to accept that you are paying for some things that are excellent (the education, being in Chicago) and others that are not. For some reason in my experience it is the state universities that are going all-out with luxury dorms–maybe to lure students away from the NUs of the world.</p>
<p>I’ve stayed in an NU dorm and did deal with bugs. With the lighting issue, I get bad migraines from harsh lights. Is Tech open 24/7?</p>
<p>I just moved my younger daughter into Cornell. She is staying at one of the oldest dorms. The room had a very dim ceiling light. It took 4 buckets of clean water with chlorine to clean her room. We bought her a nice floor lamp, a floor rug, a pretty duvet for her comforter, and an inexpensive bookcase with colorful drawers for her room. She put up photographs she took herself. Her room now looks very homey. </p>
<p>My older daughter also went to Cornell, she lived off campus junior and senior year at one of the most expensive apartments. She found bed bugs in her apartment, bugs are not very discriminatory.</p>
<p>Freshman college experience is all about meeting new people and having new experience, it is not about which dorm you are in. No matter how nice a dorm is, it will never be as nice as your own room at home. But if that’s what you were looking for, you could just stay home and go to a local college. You should feel very privileged to be able to go to a school like NU.</p>
<p>I’m an alum who was full pay, mother of a current student who is full pay, and I’m appalled by the notion that full pay should entitle the student to a choice of dorm or a get out of Sargent free card.</p>
<p>It will be what you make of it. You can focus on the Sargent-is-an-older-dorm piece, or you can focus on the fact that you are privileged enough to be at one of the best unis in the country and you can’t wait to get started, meet all kinds of new people, etc. Your choice.</p>
<p>Besides, it’s Bobb-McCulloch that’s the real dump, lol.</p>
<p>Sargent’s fine. Seriously. Move on.</p>
<p>LOL I don’t think anyone should get a crappy/better dorm based on how much they pay but everyone should get the same dorm quality, especially since the prices for the dorms are all pretty much the same.</p>