<p>Here's a cool interactive map that I found on the Harvard class of 2011 yahoo group....really interesting to read about the dorms. </p>
<p>Congrats to all who were accepted! I'm so excited to meet you guys! :)</p>
<p>I like Hollis and Stoughton the best!</p>
<p>mmm i live in stoughton and it is amazing :)</p>
<p>Oh man I am so excited for our dorms next year.</p>
<p>canaday is the best!!!</p>
<p>Do you guys think it's better to have roommates your freshman year or to have a single?</p>
<p>Depends on how loudly you or he snores. Or if he has a gf and insists she sleep in yr room all the time. Or if he's a total neat freak and you're a slob. Or you really smoke but didn't write that down on the sheet and now you want to smoke in your room but your roommate hates smoking.<br>
How used to sharing a room are you? And how willing are you to make friends without one being right there, especially the first few days?</p>
<p>Do they really consider your roommate preferences on your housing app? Or could you get stuck with someone who's really different from what you wrote down?</p>
<p>no matter what others may tell you, weld is the best.</p>
<p>ok, purely objectively, probably not. but we do have yard ops and laundry in the basement! woot</p>
<p>oh and to respond to the kid above me, they really did not listen to what i wrote down at all. but it ended up fine, and i love my roomates.</p>
<p>Haha, I see ~_~ Oh well, it's good that I'm tolerant....of most things, haha~</p>
<p>harvard listened to everything i wrote down. they matched my 4 roommates and i almost perfectly. i think we are all too much alike...</p>
<p>Is it possible to request a single room within a suite? I think that would be the ideal situation for me, being that I need large amounts of me-time but still would like built in friends... </p>
<p><em>waves hi to Jun</em></p>
<p>Harvard housing is most definitely incredible.</p>
<p>Yeah, same question as lingbo. Single with suite would probably be the best, but can you request it specifically?</p>
<p>my god i just wish i dont get pennypacker or something...even though they say those are the most fun...i can feel the shivers already walking to annenberg in the middle of the december...in the snow.</p>
<p>lingbo and jj_w,</p>
<p>it is impossible to request a single in a suite. if you get a suite with four or five roomies, you guys have to workout who gets the singles and when. most four person rooms have 2 singles and a double. and most five person rooms have 3 singles and a double. at least, that's how it is in Canaday. so you should be in a single at least one semester.</p>
<p>littleone,</p>
<p>i know people who live in the union dorms and they just make it their mission to be in the yard as much as possible. so, it's not that much of an inconvience. and, everyone in the union dorms is super-close, so that's an added benefit. the only negative i can think of is, as you said, the long distance from everything. when you come back from parties late at night or come from hanging in your friend's dorm in the yard, you have to walk back alone (which can be pretty scary). and then the whole, walking to class/annenberg in the winter thing sucks. but, it is now january and i can say that there have been 0 days where it has snowed. and a lot of people go to adams or an upperclass house in the winter because they are closer.</p>
<p>hotpiece</p>
<p>hotpiece, thank you for all your information :D</p>
<p>i'm in a 6-person with 2 singles and 2 doubles :/
oh well</p>
<p>union dorms aren't too far, so i wouldnt worry about that. also, i was someone who really wanted a single and i got put into a double first semester, and it was really great for me. you learn to abondon your need for privacy pretty quickly.</p>
<p>Before you get all excited about Harvard dorms. here's one detail that I wish someone had told me earlier...</p>
<p>Harvard dorms don't have cable TV.</p>
<p>Chew on that awhile...</p>
<p>Yeah, that really does suck about the cable situation -- but I thought that there is a cable tv in each of the dorm common rooms. Is that correct? And is there usually a lot of demand for these TVs?</p>
<p>Definitely don't want to be missing Grey's Anatomy on Thursdays...</p>
<p>Not all dorms have common rooms. And for those that do, it's shared between 15 or more people. Well actually it's shared between all the undergrads, since the common rooms don't belong to the dorm but can be booked by anyone.</p>