<p>I only have four more days to make a decision so this is an urgent question. Does the honors program at college park (I'm not in gemstone or honors humanities) really offer advantages to those students who are participating in it? Do students tend to enjoy the honors classes or are they obscenely difficult? And is there a community among the honors students or is that not really apparent?</p>
<p>How do we accept the invitation?</p>
<p>Accept it-- if you end up not wanting to participate, you don't have to. Nobody's going to come chasing after you asking why you aren't taking more honors classes. You just won't get your honors citation when you graduate.</p>
<p>Yes, I really liked all my honors seminars and wish I could have taken more, but with a minor and a special program with extra requirements I just didn't have the room in my schedule. The workload is not difficult, just different. (For example, no silly multiple choice exams to memorize information for, but writing an analysis paper about a topic of your choice.)</p>
<p>I don't see much of a community among the honors students, but I have a social circle in Greek life and in the business school. For students who aren't involved in many campus organizations, Honors may very well provide a great community feel. I'm just not involved with the program enough to have an opinion on that.</p>
<p>would it be better to live in one of the honors dorms (im in University honors, not gemstone or honors humanities) freshman yr, seeing as i'd prob end up in denton or live in the jimenez-porter writers house. I just found out that i got into the writers house, so I'm not sure which I should choose.</p>
<p>Also, if anybody knows anything about the Writers' house, please let me know. Thanks!</p>
<p>Location-wise, the writers' house is great. Still very close to the stadium, etc. like on North Campus but also right on the top of the Mall. Dorchester Hall is also the home of Global Communities so there's a neat mix of students living there. There are some upperclassmen which is good if you're looking for a more quiet place to live but you also won't have as many opportunities to meet people. If you're outgoing, this won't matter as much because you can seek out friends through activities and classes, but for someone more quiet you might want to be "forced" to meet people through living in a big freshman dorm.</p>
<p>Hope that helped :)</p>
<p>thanks a lot for the info
also, do you happen to know anyone who is/has been in the writers' house and what they thought of it, in terms of workload or any other aspects</p>
<p>Thanks for your response! Also, does honors allow you to develop closer relationships with professors?</p>