<p>I am wondering about the Healthy Living Choice option. I've heard good things about it (e.g. single private bathrooms, hehe) and am wondering whether I should apply for it. WHat are the pros and cons? Is there less of a social scene in regards to the Healthy Living Choice?</p>
<p>I would like to hear what people have to say about this too. I know for sure that I am going to apply for healthy living, but I'm curious what they like to do on weekends. It's not that I'm super against drinking, I just never got into it, and neither did any of my friends. Thanks!</p>
<p>haha, yea, sorry to dissapoint you travelgirl, i'm not answering my own question but i never really got into the drinking thing either. I drank a little bit on a cruise i recently went on just to try it and .. ick! hahah. pleaseeeee, someone let us know how the healthy living is!</p>
<p>I'm curious about this as well, as I think we get our room thing in the mail soon.</p>
<p>i lived on a healthy living floor during my freshman year at tufts (i am a sophomore now). i found that many of the people who lived there had either been forced to live there by their parents or had been placed there despite never having checked off the option on the housing form. and after a while, a lot of people who thought they were into the healthy living lifestyle tried drinking and stuck with it every weekend. so it was a little disappointing for me, in that sense, since i still don't drink.</p>
<p>i lived in south hall, which is the dorm with the individual bathrooms. but that dorm has since been eliminated as a healthy living housing option, since (obviously) not enough people elected to live in healthy living. and as a result, too many people who were not interested in healthy living were placed there. i think now it's only in two dorms, but idk too much more although i'm sure it's easy to find through research.</p>
<p>Thanks for the info confetti. As much of downer as that sounds, hopefully it will get better since you did say that they reduced the amount of space for healthy living, i.e. only people who want to be there will be. Healthy living is still my plan, hope it works out!</p>
<p>me too. =)</p>
<p>I lived on Healthy Living my sophomore year and it really wasn't a big deal. I don't drink a whole lot so I didn't mind living on the floor, but my roomie did and never had a problem. We usually went elsewhere to drink and just stayed off of our floor with alcohol. I think there was a good mix of people who did and didn't drink though.</p>
<p>I did Healthy Living for two of my three years on-campus; the other one, I tried to get HL but had to settle for smoke free.</p>
<p>The biggest thing I noticed is that healthy living people know that if they drink, they can't return drunk, singing, and throwing up at 3 am. While people aren't saints (which can be a good thing!), the drinking is basically kept quiet. If you're all for full disclosure and admitting that your a lush, then it's not for you. I'm all about either not drinking (when underage) or drinking as an adult social activity, not to get drunk, so I liked Healthy Living. I think it keeps a check on the worst behaviour; either that, or it attracts people who are less likely to drink to the point of blacking out.</p>
<p>That sounds like exactly what I'm looking for. Do you know if it's possible to be on a healthy living and all freshman floor?</p>
<p>yea, that sounds like what i like too. I might drink now and then but definitely not to the point of drunkeness and passing out.</p>
<p>thanks for all the input, it is greatly appreciated. now though ... i have to get INTO the school. hahahah</p>
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<p>Yeah, I enjoy a few beers every now and then, but I don't necessarilly want crazy blacking out and puking all the time. Oh well, I don't know which to do...</p>
<p>i'm actually a bit conflicted as well. I feel like if I go with the healthy living that I'll be missing out on stuff!!!</p>
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<p>I went through the same thought process being a non-drinker and i ended up choosing HL. I didn't get it, nor did a lot of other who applied. Over all it doesnt really matter. Where i am now (the biggest dorm on campus) might as well be healthy living. It's quiet as can be over here is South Hall. DOn't stress whatever you choose you can make work!</p>
<p>lol, incidentally, i now live on the same floor in South Hall that was Healthy Living last year, but when we got housing, it still said on the website that the 3rd floor was Healthy Living. And here's the thing! I don't drink either! Not kidding. And yet I thought to myself that people who signed up for Healthy Living were the type who would just study all the time and stuff.</p>
<p>However. My floor turned out being NOT Healthy Living...yet...almost none of my friends drink. In all honesty, there are drinkers and non-drinkers all around campus, and it's pretty easy to find them. No matter what dorm you're in, you'll find them. Since South IS pretty quiet, I've never really experienced the drunk people screaming around the halls at 3 am, and I love living here, I'm living here again next year. Basically, for me, it didn't matter that I wasn't on a Healthy Living floor, I found a group that didn't drink either and we have SO MUCH FUN.</p>
<p>Healthy living isn't as healthy as it sounds.</p>
<p>Your chances of getting private bathrooms and a single like I did at Tufts my freshman (current) year might be higher if you apply for healthy living, although I am not sure. I doubt it.</p>
<p>where is healthy living right now? Carmicheal? Does Carmicheal have private bathrooms???? I thought only South and Tilton did.</p>
<p>I really wanted healthy living when I came to college, but I got placed in Metcalf and was worried about it. It turned out to be totally fine. Now, I live on a regular floor. It really doesn't make a difference -- just do your own thing. Unless people are ridiculously loud (in which case RA will write them up anyway, or you can take action if necessary), it's really not as big a deal as it seems. If you don't drink, don't.</p>
<p>Yeah if you're REALLY bothered by noise, you just go to your RA. The RA, in turn, has to address the loud people and say "I've gotten a noise complaint, so you have to tune it down."</p>