<p>What did you guys get?</p>
<p>I am in a double, South Campus Hall.</p>
<p>Single, B-J, Mathews house. My first choice. I need to see if I can find a floor plan.</p>
<p>Wow, nice. I didn’t even get my first, second, OR third choice. But oh well, I guess I can compromise. I wonder what South Campus will be like.</p>
<p>I got a single in B-J, Matthews House.</p>
<p>I think I would want to live in B-J. At least I wouldn’t have to live in the clown prison.</p>
<p>I got a double in South Campus, in Halperin House. It wasn’t one of my three choices, either, but I’m warming to it. And my roommate seems cool! Plus, the route to food will be significantly shorter than what it would be for my original choices (though their appeal still dies hard).</p>
<p>Double in BJ! Am quite happy with it.</p>
<p>And, of course, am Facebook stalking my roommate now.</p>
<p>Double in Broadview… I put getting a single as my first priority, but oh well. I guess it’s meant to be. Gotta go over to FB and start stalking my roommate…</p>
<p>Single in Burton-Judson, Linn House! Now I can’t handle how slowly this next month will go…</p>
<p>Linn Linn, house of sin!</p>
<p>Hmm. Some students were informed that there was not enough room in the dorms, and that they could stay in ihouse until something opens. I really wonder how they’re going to keep admitting 1300+ students while simultaneously trying to have 75% of students stay in the house system.</p>
<p>I just graduated from UChicago, was browsing the forums and was super excited to find future Mathews House residents here! I’m probably extremely biased here, but you two should be really psyched about your housing assignment - BJ is a very happy and nurturing place, close to campus but not <em>on</em> campus so you get a little space (and a little exercise!) from classes, and Mathews in particular has a really awesome group of upperclassmen this year: there aren’t too many who stayed in housing from last year, so you’ll make a tonne of new friends during o-week, but the 2nd years who move in later are all really nice and lots of fun, and there are a bunch of upperclassmen closely bonded to the house who now live in apartments together who will probably come back and visit lots.</p>
<p>Best of all, George and Beth are the sweetest RHs in the world. They are both med students, and have two small children (toddler Gabe and infant Elijah, both of whom are completely cherubic - I’ve never seen such adorable, well-behaved children!), so you’d think they do not have much time to deal with dorm stuff, but they really go above and beyond: they made fantastic study breaks throughout the year, had a weekly(ish) movie night with homemade popcorn, and organized great trips and other fun activities last year… I think that every time more than 3 students were in their apartment at once, they made sure to have snacks and lemonade out for us. How they have time to be so helpful and friendly I have no idea, but they are fantastic! Both the sort of people to have looking out for you in a crisis, and also just a tonne of fun to hang out with. The RA, Simha, is really down to earth and friendly, too: I thought it would be weird having an RA younger than me last year (you can see how wonderful I thought Mathews was, that I stayed in housing all 4 years), but he was just awesome - very responsible, completely trustworthy, and a great friend.</p>
<p>Have a fantastic time, all of you (not just the Mathewsniks - I’m sure everyone’s housing is great). UChicago is a really wonderful place. Be sure to check out Scav, Kuvia, Blues and Ribs, and Dollar Shake Day.</p>
<p>^Thanks for your info. It sounds like I’ll have a great time. My friends are still a bit skeptical about my choosing a single, but I think it will be great.</p>
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<p>That’s interesting. I hope that the university comes up with a better plan soon. If they keep overadmitting students, more will have to live off campus, which will probably make the rents in the area go up. Do you think they’ll build yet another new residence hall in a few years because of this?</p>
<p>Quite frankly, the only way to keep students in housing longer will be to lower the room and board, which is by far the highest of any college I considered. I understand that part of it is due to UChicago being in a city, but Hyde Park isn’t that outrageously gentrified to warrant such high student fees.</p>
<p>I was also assigned a single in Mathews House. Apparently, Mathewsniks are very fond of online college forums; we have an oddly signficant presence, here and on the Class of 2013 forum, especially considering there are less than 50 of us.</p>
<p>Thanks, mathgrad, for the excellent description of the RHs/RA. I was really hoping for RHs with children!</p>
<p>^I’ve noticed that. Have you figured out the room numbers?</p>
<p>^ The 6 at the start of your room number means Mathews: on one side of us is Linn with 700s, and Coulter on the other side has 500s.</p>
<p>The second number will be a 1, 2, 3, or 4 (although I can’t remember if there were any available rooms on the 4th floor this year… these are larger, and so tend to be nabbed by upperclassmen), and corresponds to what floor you are on, mostly. The one caveat to this is that Mathews has a second and a half, third and a half, and fourth and a half floors as well, and so the later-lettered 6n9 rooms (for n=2, 3, or 4) may be on the half-floor.</p>
<p>The third number is just where in the hallway you are, numbering starting to the right of the door to the stairs, wrapping south toward the bathroom and then north on the other wall and up around the bend onto the half floors, if I remember correctly. My 632 second year was right next to the bathroom, but I do not remember if this means 622 and 642 are bathroom-abutting as well. The bathroom on the first floor is next to the lounge, which used to be two singles they knocked the wall between down and carpeted. The wall in the lounge has “Mathews is Love” painted on it! and a relief sculpture of Shailer Mathews which some people cleaned about half of with toothbrushes 5 or 6 years back before realizing it was taking off some of the detail of the sculpture as well as the dirt, so half of it is whiter and half darker. There’s also a TV - y’all will get to vote on whether you want to buy cable or not, I think, and a microwave, and a kazillion random books and crafts left in the closet to peruse/use.</p>
<p>Yeah, I’m 617.</p>
<p>6 = Mathews House</p>
<p>1 = 1st Floor</p>
<p>7 = Seventh farthest from the bathroom, I suppose. Odd numbers face the Law Library; even numbers face the courtyard.</p>
<p>If you have “B” or “C” then you’re on a mid-floor, which only Mathews has. </p>
<p>I’m not sure if that’s what “figured out dorm numbers” meant, but there it is. </p>
<p>Also, someone was seeking floorplans… if you find one, let me know. The University seems to have drained all the life out of its housing information, leaving on a few, pathetic pictures and brief descriptions. They used to give digital tours/floorplans/the works. Now… shamefully sparing in their exposition. Sigh.</p>
<p>I didn’t realize mathgrad had already explained most of this stuff. (Maybe he posted while I was typing? Odd coincidence. Maybe I just didn’t see the second page). Anyways, now you have double the information.</p>
<p>i was perusing the facebook forum, and i saw that dodd-mead is considered the “gayest” house? how gay is it? i really have no problem with it, i just don’t want it to be too awkward, and i mean that with no hostility.</p>
<p>Yeah, yeah, someone on the Class of 2013 bulletin board explained it. Even though I now get it, that’s still a wonky numbering system.</p>
<p>The housing information site is, at best, incredibly lame. They could at least have more than six pictures of each residence hall, and perhaps a floor plan of one tiny corner of each building. Half of the links in that section of the site don’t even work. I’ll be optimistic and say that they’re redoing it because of the South Campus thing.</p>