<p>I have heard from students that the honors dorms are much less social than other freshman dorms (broward, jennings), far away from everything including libraries, classes, and university avenue.</p>
<p>Is it worth it to sacrifice freinds for a nicer room?????</p>
<p>It’s probably that honors students give the appearance of being less social because they spend more time studying. But some floors in Hume are actually just as social as other dorms. If socializing has a higher priority than studying, then your freshman year is more like 13th grade than college and Hume may not be the place for you. So the real question is: how many GPA points are you willing to sacrafice for a good time?</p>
<p>There are actually a lot of social events put on by the Honors Organization that allow one to get to know people.</p>
<p>Your floor in hume is either hit or miss. You will either have a really social floor (i go out and party with mine a lot) or you will have a really anti-social floor (ex: people only hang out with friends not on floor, people constantly play video games). There really isn’t much of an in-between.</p>
<p>The social events from SHO are nice, but I’ve noticed that less and less people go as the year has gone by</p>
<p>But if you definitely want a social floor, you will be guaranteed to have one if you live in Jennings or Broward.</p>
<p>Oh, and I’ve also noticed that I get better grades the more I party. Just make sure you balance everything out ;)</p>
<p>Just because you are in a non-social part of Humer doesn’t mean you can’t hang out with other people. You don’t need to follow the rest of your hall.</p>
<p>“far away from everything including libraries, classes, and university avenue.”</p>
<p>Oh ya, real far… </p>
<p>It’s not even 300 yards away.</p>
<p>And if you think you can’t be in the honors program or live in the honors dorm just because you want to socialize, think again. It is very possible to work hard, and then party harder without sacrificing GPA points. Just balance your time.</p>
<p>With the sheer number of people on this board concerned with Hume not being social enough, I doubt there will be anyone at all not ready to party.</p>
<p>Floors are definitely hit or miss. I was in Hume West 1st floor for 2 years and the first year everyone went clubbing and hung out all the time; The lounge always had people studying/playing poker/etc, but in the second year it was pretty different. There isn’t as much socialization as say Jennings because you’re not really forced to see other people besides your roommates/suitmates (by the way, having a door that connects right to 2 other people is just begging to come over like all the time!).</p>
<p>I had some good experiences, and when I went to live in a Jennings-type hall for my third year, I didn’t really notice a difference besides not having my own bathroom.</p>
<p>Not only do the honors dorms suck, but ALL dorms suck.</p>
<p>Out of 366 colleges, University of Florida ranks # 13 in “Dorms Looks Like Dungeons” according to Princeton Review rankings. Major improvement needed here that I do not think is going to happen any time soon with current state’s multi million dollar budget cuts.</p>
<p>The dorms are fine unless you are the pretentious *****y type.</p>
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<p>Come on dude, do not be ridiculous. Nothing wrong with accepting real criticism once in awhile… I guess you are saying that Princeton Review only surveyed thousands and thousands of “pretentious *****y type” students</p>
<p>The dorms are not unbearable. At first I was like “NO WAY.” The thought of sharing a bathroom with 40 others girls seemed really gross. Honestly, you just get use to it and adjust. I think it’s really beneficial for freshmen to live on campus. You make friends and meet people randomly. =)</p>
<p>Personally, I think Hume is one of the friendliest dorms. Whenever I go there to visit friends, the residents randomly greet me and strike up a conversation. LOL. They’re nicer then the residents in my dorm. I think there’s a misconception regarding honor student. Not all of them are nerdy, a lot of them are very social, sorority, fraternity, partyesque AND they’re smart.</p>
<p>I made the great mistake of choosing Hume to live in this year, and have regretted it since week 1. Like people have mentioned before, Hume can be very hit or miss, but mostly miss. You could have a pretty cool floor, or a totally quiet/strange floor (like me); you could have great suitemates or really weird anti-social ones (like me). The coed aspect of the dorm very much appealed to me, and was one of the reasons I choose Hume, and lo and behold, I was put in the ground floor with all guys…the “cockpit.” My floor was VERY video game oriented, my roommate talked to himself more than he talked to me. We NEVER had a conversation beyond two lines of dialog, no matter how hard I tried… I eventually just gave up. After living with him for a year, I honestly don’t know him any better than a stranger on the sidewalk. He was also very inconsiderate in general, i.e. being loud when I clearly was trying to study/sleep. </p>
<p>The real problem with Hume is if you are looking for the typical college social party experience (and you SHOULD be…these are gonna be the best four years of you life, take advantage of it!), this is NOT the dorm to choose. Your dorms are over on the other side of campus (Broward/Jennings), and/or you need to go greek. Don’t get me wrong, there is nothing wrong with being a little “eccentric” and studious (I am), but being as anti-social as a large portion of Hume residents are is unacceptable. Of the few friends I did make in Hume (while elsewhere, not actually at Hume), we all agree that we regret choosing that dorm.</p>
<p>Bottom line: yes, Hume just might be a great experience for you…but there is a good chance that it won’t and you will want to go elsewhere (such as going greek like me). Live elsewhere.</p>