<p>Hello, so I am an incoming freshman this year and I am living in Lakeside. I've been reading student reviews on the dorms and everyone says that Lakeside is ridiculously far away from classes and a hassle to go out.
Is this true or an exaggeration?</p>
<p>What is the best mode of transportation for anyone that has previously lived there? Car, bike, or stick with the buses?</p>
<p>I have the same question. BUMP</p>
<p>bike, or bus if you’re willing to plan.</p>
<p>you don’t walk to class from lakeside, which can be inconvenient depending on your own preferences.</p>
<p>The trade-off though is that Lakeside is like having a regular apartment. Nice size living/dining room, nice kitchen and your own bedroom where you share a bathroom with only one other person.</p>
<p>My niece lives there and she says that as long as it doesnt rain it is no big deal to catch the bus to campus. I think the bike ride takes like 10 minutes tops depending on traffic.</p>
<p>I can tell you that the apartments are nice. The nicest on campus. I believe that Keys floorplan is identical to Lakeside? Does any know if this is true?</p>
<p>Do you get any sense of the typical “dorm life”, or is it like living off campus? I’m excited to live on campus but it sounds like I would just be basically living in an expensive off campus apartment with a UF label. Thoughts? :/</p>
<p>Does anyone know if Bedroom D in the Lakeside apartments is smaller than Bedrooms A, B, and C. From what I can see on the floorplan, D looks smaller…</p>
<p>Pretty is definitely on campus but you are correct it is not the same experience has living in the other dorms. More upper classmen = less partying and more studying.</p>
<p>I dont know if D is smaller than the other rooms??</p>
<p>I don’t think living in Lakeside is worth it at all, to be honest. Buses run by often, this is true, but I don’t see the point in living somewhere on campus where you have to take a bus from just to get to class. I guess I could understand if you were an upperclassman, and maybe you have a ton of financial aid, and you don’t have a car so you need to live on campus and have a meal plan, and you work on campus, too. Then I guess it makes sense and would work out. Otherwise, it doesn’t make any sense to me for how far it is and how pricey it is. You could live down 20th for probably less than the cost of Lakeside… and you would take the same bus from your apartment to campus that you would from Lakeside to campus (there are other bus routes, but still). I have also heard it is a pain to get from Lakeside to the dining halls, and that it is the most inconvenient part of living out there.</p>
<p>You could walk from Lakeside to campus if you really, really wanted to, but it would take FOREVER and would be miserable if it were really hot, or really cold (and Gainesville does tend to experience those two extremes… trust me. It’s in the 90s from like, April-September with no breeze. And in the winter, sometimes it gets into the high 20s/low 30s… early morning classes could be miserable doing a walk in that kind of weather). </p>
<p>You’ll get to live “on campus”, yes. But the answer is no, it won’t be the same as living closer to campus or in a different dorm…</p>
<p>Bedroom D is small.</p>
<p>@jeromefulton Have you been in there?</p>
<p>Are the rooms inside each lakeside apartment pre-assigned, or do you just show up on move-in day and claim a room?</p>
<p>I’m roommmate D on myhousing, so I presume I’m in Bedroom D. Someone correct me if I’m wrong, but I’m pretty sure rooms are preassigned because they also give you a key that opens only your bedroom.</p>
<p>The rooms are preassigned. My son checked in for summer and they gave him the key to his specific room. It was not first-come, first-served.</p>
<p>@heybails, where do you see “roomate D”? I logged into myhousing, and clicked on the “my room” tab and it just says the Hall, floor, and apartment number. On the bottom it has the roomate info and that’s it.</p>
<p>@heybails, where do you see “roomate D”? I logged into myhousing, and clicked on the “my room” tab and it just says the Hall, floor, and apartment number. On the bottom it has the roomate info and that’s it.</p>
<p>@PrettyPeridot If you go to Room Selection</p>
<p>Definitely couldn’t find it either</p>