<p>GT 3000-Do you know anything about the Global Village area in the NW neighborhood or the dorms in the SW neighborhood? What about academic housing? My S has been accepted to IU and is thinking of majoring in East Asian studies. The housing office told me that many of my S's classes would be held in the Central neighborhood (Ballentine, perhaps?) Global Village is suposed to be for kids who want to study abroad, but the housing office said that SW would be closer to his classes. Any feedback you can provide would be appreciated!</p>
<p>go blue-- if your son is a party animal he will be most happy in the nw neighborhood!</p>
<p>bxian- the global village in the NW has many multicultural students in it (last year anyway.) its part of foster quad. SW neighborhood has many music school students because of its location close to the music school. i really wouldn't worry about trying to live that close to where your classes are. the campus is so confined to one area- you can walk across it in 10-15 mins. plus, you never know where a class will be held. i was in exercise science and had a class in the geology building. classes like psych and soc could be held anywhere- it's impossible to say. many students i knew didnt find the location of the SW neighborhood optimal at all. what are your son's interests, though? will he know a lot of people from his school going to IU? what types of people does he want to meet?</p>
<p>We are from the Northeast. S has not heard of anyone in his class that will be attending IU-although we know of 2 kids who are there.<br>
S is hard to quantify. On the outside, you would say he is an Abercrombie-wearing kid who is bright (mostly honors classes in HS) and has a good sense of humor. He is not into playing sports (although he has gotten into watching football and college basketball, and ran track in the early part of HS). He likes movies, music, shooting pool, and going out to eat. His group of friends is very ethnically diverse. Most of his friends are kids who are strong students. He would tell you that he tends to shy away from kids that are "fringy," yet he still maintains a strong bond with a childhood buddy that wears "goth" looking clothes. He says that he tries to look beyond how his friend dresses and accept him for who he is. He has done a lot of community service in HS. All in all, a good kid with a good heart-and a great listener.
I suspect that (like his college soph sister), he will enjoy going to parties in college-but I don't see him as a hard core partyer.<br>
From what IU housing tells me-Foster is for the International students, while the global village is for kids who study abroad. Why is SW less desireable? If my S is not a hard core partyer-should he stay away from NW?</p>
<p>This Sports Community seems like exactly what I need! Gosh that would be great. Parties in the NW? OH YEAH! Is the Sport Society in Briscoe? My goodness that would be great. I'd love being around people who actually know a bunch about sports.</p>
<p>GT--Actually, he's more the social butterfly rather than the party animal. He's Captain of his varsity sports teams so he's been very careful to keep his nose clean this year. I sure hope all hell doesn't break loose next year! LOL !!!</p>
<p>Wolves--Did you find the link about the Sports Community on IU's website? S.M. majors, sports fanatics...On the surface, it sounds tailor-made for both you and my son. Since IU is tight-lipped about dorm assignments for theme communities, I'm still curious which dorm they're in, the number of kids and the type of kids on that floor, etc. <a href="http://www.rps.indiana.edu/llpsports.cfml%5B/url%5D">http://www.rps.indiana.edu/llpsports.cfml</a></p>
<p>bxian--If housing told you that Foster is the dorm that houses the internationals, I would guess it's because the Global Village Living-Learning Center is located there. GT also confirmed that Foster has many multi-cultural kids. Many of them, along with the study-abroad kids, probably are grouped together if they're members of the Global Village LLC. Even though Foster is located in N.W., I doubt all the kids are hard-core partiers. Your son should be able to find plenty of fun-loving moderates. <a href="http://www.indiana.edu/%7Ecollege/global/%5B/url%5D">http://www.indiana.edu/~college/global/</a></p>
<p>Yeah, I saw the link, it's like it was made just for me, lol. I think this is the one I want, not so much the workout gym yoga oriented one. I'm going to apply to if, hopefully the spaces aren't all taken up. Worried about the access to food, to HPER and Kelley, and where exactly this is.</p>
<p>Are any kids from your high school at IU this year? I think finals are this week so they should be back home by this weekend. Son is going to ask around to see if he can get more info. about the Sports Community. It would be nice to know the dorm set-up and other details about that group before sending in the deposit.</p>
<p>foster quad is not all for international students. it is a regular group of dorms in the NW neighborhood! the global village is one of the buildings that makes up foster quad. im telling you, though, from what i knew last year, many international students live in the global village. the rest of foster is the same as briscoe and mcnutt. theyre all party-type dorms!</p>
<p>now, the central neighborhood is a little different. i actually lived in wright for a little while my first semester, but moved out to live with a friend in briscoe. i found wright very, very boring. many students agreed, many students disagreed. the atmosphere in wright is very quiet- the rooms are smaller and there are less people/floor. one of the reasons i left IU was because the place is so cliqued. you can definitely see huge differences in the types of students that live in certain dorms. for example, when i lived in wright, my friends and i would go out on a friday night and the dorm would be DEAD. there would never be anyone outside hanging out or waiting for people. when we'd walk towards the NW neighborhood to meet friends, students would be everywhere outside the dorms meeting up with people and hanging around. not to say peopel in the central 'hood dont have a good time, but you can definitely tell NW is much more social than central. no one in wright ever wanted to do anything- school spirit was so low!! my RA would always desperately try to organize get togethers or sport tournaments with other sections in wright, but it ALWAYS fell through or only a couple people showed up! around homecoming time, we had the worst decorations because nobody cared to help out! having a social atmosphere is very important, i believe- especially if you dont know anyone at the school!!</p>
<p>however, right next to wright is teter (still central.) i knew about 10-12 people who lived there and it was a very well-rounded dorm. not too rowdy, not too boring. at HC their decorations were great! everyone i knew who lived there liked it a lot and always said "teter's tight."</p>
<p>Sold...N.W. it is! If IU won't let you specify a particular dorm, then son can't risk being stuck in a place with deadbeats. Like you, he'd go nuts. I think kids tend to clique off at big state U's in order to make it feel more manageable. It's nice to have reliable social connections while making all the other freshman adjustments. When I was at Michigan, I found the dorms really magnified that, but then kids branched out as they moved up the ranks. Besides the cliques GT, what else wasn't appealing about IU that prompted you to transfer?</p>
<p>We had about 25-30 students go to IU from last year's class. I'm sure I could get some contact information and find out more about this Sports Community.</p>