<p>Hey,
i just got accepted for engineering and i was wondering which housing would be best for me?
I was thinking warren or towers.
Any student currently in BU mind helping me out. </p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>Let me put it to you bluntly. If you want the closest dorm to your classes, and have it be very quiet and anti-social choose the Engineering floor on Warren. If you want some dorms a bit farther away from classes but close to the partying streets (you don’t hear the noise from them, theyre just within really close walking distance) that are a lot more social and dare I say fun choose the Engineering Floor in Sleeper Hall (West Campus). West also has the best dining hall out of anywhere on campus (Warren being among the worst) and we have the gym a block away. I’m pretty sure you can tell I’m biased to my beloved West Campus.</p>
<p>I live in Warren, a floor away from the Engineering floor (12C) and I personally like Warren a lot. The rooms are small, but cozy. The dining hall isn’t that bad ([BU</a> | Dining Services | Featured Menu](<a href=“http://www.bu.edu/phpbin/dining/menu.php?l=warren]BU”>http://www.bu.edu/phpbin/dining/menu.php?l=warren)) although West does have the best dining hall on campus. </p>
<p>Warren is literally across the street from CAS and basically the heart of campus… so getting to and from classes and other campus hot spots (Mugar Library, the GSU, etc) is really easy. The best is being able to wake up, roll out of bed and go to class. People from West have to walk (~10 mins) to get to class or take the T, which sucks because of the weather and as a freshman your sleeping schedule will be totally effed. </p>
<p>I signed up for 9am classes as a freshman thinking it would be so easy to wake up for since I had to wake up for 7:30 am classes in high school but 9am classes were actually SO hard to get to … </p>
<p>So West vs. Warren, I would definitely say Warren. It does suck to have to walk all the way to Allston or Gardner St (BU Frats), but that’s just weekends. I’d rather have a short walk to classes on weekdays than a short walk to frat parties on weekends.</p>
<p>But for Warren vs. Towers … definitely warren. I don’t really know any freshman in towers but I know that Towers is definitely less social and has less freshman. For the freshman experience, go for Warren.</p>
<p>Also, fill out the housing survey ASAP! You don’t want to find yourself living in a brownstone or south campus your freshman year. Idk if it’s different this year, but last year we were able to change our survey answers whenever we wanted until we were assigned housing. The faster you submit your survey the better housing you will get … and when you change your answers it doesnt change the date you submitted it. SO submit it asap and change the answers whenever you want (unless they changed it from last year that is)</p>
<p>Sorry for the lengthy answer, but def do Warren</p>
<p>haha thanks for the input guys.</p>
<p>is the engineering floor really that anti social? i know being in engineering, its going to be quite dull socially. i defs dont want to have an anti social life in college.</p>
<p>I was already leaning on warren, i guess ill choose warren. Now time to decide if i should go for specialty floors or not</p>
<p>specialty floor vs. regular
- with whether or not your floor will be antisocial is really random. there really is no such thing as saying “that specialty floor is antisocial and it always will be”. it differs from year to year.
- with specialty floors you can study with your floor mates and you’ll instantly makes friends who are likely to be in your classes
- your floor tends to be your group of friends (from what ive seen) and its hard to branch out of that friends wise …
- your group of friends will therefore be from the same school …
- also you’ll notice that students from each schools sort of have their own personality … so if you’re like pretty much an ENG stereotype it should be fine … but everyone is different so … this one doesnt really count i guess?</p>
<p>i know the eng floor this year is pretty chill and social. they’re all pretty cool people to talk to for the most part.</p>
<p>are specialty floors exclusive to that major? or is it just highly populated with students from that major?</p>
<p>Hey, I am currently living on 12C (the Engineering Specialty floor). Our floor is FAR from anti-social, I don’t know where that rumor got started, maybe the other engineering floors are. There are always people in the common room and we are all really tight and get along, one of the best experiences of my life so far. Ingalls and BUILDS are right behind Warren, so it is really nice if you are into studying at Ingalls or hacking around with electronics at BUILDS. The specialty floors also attract engineers who don’t live there so we have a large group of people who don’t live on our floor who come around (for example, there is a painting major who comes around frequently and a few engineers from West and the South Campus Brownstones who prefer the atmosphere on 12C).</p>
<p>12C for the win (don’t go with 9B…)</p>
<p>I’m fairly certain, but not positive, that specialty floors are not completely exclusive to that major. I don’t live on 12C, but I visit frequently, being an engineering freshman myself, and I am pretty sure that there is at least one or two non-engineers living there, though they do seem to be less inclined to engage in the general frivolity that erupts nightly than the typical resident.</p>
<p>cool, i guess ill apply for specialty housing. seems pretty useful to have students in my classes living with me.</p>
<p>Anyway, which floors are single sex floors? I hope the specialty floors are co-ed</p>
<p>The engineering specialty floors are co-ed, but the WISE floors (Women in Science and Engineering) are single-sex female, but there is only one of those. Just a tip though dont “hook up” with someone on your floor, it is generally considered a bad idea</p>
<p>haha i wasnt planning to hook up, but yea i dont want to be living in a sausage fest.</p>
<p>so if all the science and engineering girls are on the girls floor, wont there be none left for the engineering floor.</p>
<p>on a side note, do you guys know a lot about the co-op program?</p>
<p>Girls outnumber guys 60/40 at BU. There will be enough to fill up both the WISE and engineering floors just fine. That being said, extra people get placed on specialty floors sometimes if there is extra room. So no matter what, there will be the same amount of girls on the floor. It’s split one side and the other on a co-ed floor in Warren.</p>
<p>Also, I lived in Warren as a freshman. I would really recommend living there. To me, living in West just for the parties never would have made sense. Your classes will be RIGHT next to Warren. You will like the extra sleep, time to go back to room during breaks, and central place to campus. As an engineering student, you’ll be in class a lot. It’s nice to be able to take advantage of breaks and not be stuck in central campus without time to go to West and back.</p>
<p>I don’t think male only floors exist. As for the co-op program. I don’t know much about it. I do know that it is hard to get into as a freshman (if it is even possible), your best bet is to try to get an internship or into a lab.</p>