<p>What kind of housing options are there for a freshman? Are you able to get suites?</p>
<p>Here's a link on the housing opurtunities:</p>
<p>Hartley, Wallach and Carmen have suites for Freshmen. I don't know if there are more Freshmen suite housing opportunities. I think Carmen is Freshmen only. I think John Jay is Freshman housing but I believe it is single rooms. I also think Carmen has the single sex suites where 4 boys or girls share 2 bedrooms and one bathroom (no kitchen). This is based on my quick peek in this dorm at check-in. My son is in a 12 person suite in Hartley. Half his suitemates are Freshmen and it is coed. There are a couple of double rooms and the rest are singles so you can have complete privacy if you want. They have a shared common room, kitchen and one big bathroom. He likes it because there is always something going on. momoffive.</p>
<p>John Jay: All singles, ~40 per floor, plus two walk-through doubles per floor. 11 floors. Kitchen, shared bathrooms, and a TV lounge on each floor with free cable.</p>
<p>Carman: Suites of two doubles / 4 beds each, sharing a bathroom. ~8-14 suites on each of 12 floors. One kitchen in the basement. Bathroom in each suite, TV lounge on each floor. Air conditioning.</p>
<p>Furnald: Mix of singles and doubles on 10 floors. Shared bathrooms on each floor, a big TV lounge with kitchen on each floor. Air conditioning. Houses roughly 2/3 freshman 1/3 sophomores.</p>
<p>Hartley/Wallach: "Suite"-style living, with a group of singles and doubles with a shared coed bathroom, and a large TV lounge in each suite with a kitchen. Some suites have a spiral staircase to a 2nd floor of the suite with more bedrooms / bathroom upstairs.</p>
<p>All buildings are co-ed, except for one floor for each gender in carman. Every building has laundry in the basement, 24-hour security, free internet, available cable TV hookups for each room, a phone, and a lounge in each suite or floor. Hartley/Wallach has carpeting in the rooms. Furnald and Carman have air conditioning. </p>
<p>John Jay and Carman are freshman-only. Furnald is about 2/3 freshmen, 1/3 sophomores. Hartley/Wallach are about half freshmen, half sophomores with a few upperclassmen as well. All buildings are co-ed, except for one floor for each gender that's single-sex in carman.</p>
<p>The only people I've ever met who have been unhappy with their freshman housing have lived in Hartley/Wallach and it's either been the result of messy suitemates or just not enough fellow freshmen around to mingle with. Everyone else loves it, and their freshman-year floor become some of their best friends.</p>
<p>Anything more specific?</p>
<p>I've got a question. I'm a freshmen in Furnald and totally love it. I haven't had to go to the library to study. Ever. For sophmore year, I've heard that it's really, really difficult to get into Furnald. What other dorms for sophmore year are good "study dorms," or am I just screwed if I don't get a great lottery number? Also, for junior year, if I want to be in Furnald, how hard is it to get to be an RA there? I don't really think that being an RA seems that hard, my floor's RA hasn't really had to do much other than file a couple of maintenence reports ('cause we're all somewhat lazy with that stuff) and put stuff on his door.</p>
<p>1) If you normally study in your floor lounge, buildings like schapiro and broadway will work well for you. If a big building lounge on the ground floor is still OK, McBain and Wien will work in this regard. A suite in EC obviously has more privacy but is also more of a living / hangout space.</p>
<p>Really, it'll depend on whether you can work in your room or not. I always hated going to Butler for anything other than actual reading - I could read a book there but not really get much of anything else done. There was so much time overhead involved in finding a spot, keeping a spot, not getting distracted... it was more worth it to try lounges or lerner or the engineering library or something.</p>
<p>2) If you manage to land an RA position - and fewer than half of the applicants to be an RA do so - you have zero say over what building you get placed in.</p>
<p>That's the bad news. The good news is, there are a number of buildings just as nice or nicer than Furnald, and upperclassmen routinely are very happy with where they end up. Go to parties or make some friends who live in Woodbridge, Watt, EC and Hogan, you'll see what I mean. 600 W 113th is a pretty cool place too - I was there over the summer.</p>
<p>Yeah, I haven't studied in the lounge at all either. I've done basically all of my studying in bed. Okay, that last sentence sounds sort of dirty, but it's not meant to be; I mean studying with textbooks. Will I be able to do that in any of the sophmore dorms, or does it basically just depend on my roommates? And if I have neighbors this year that I'm friends with and spend most of their time studying too, should I see about all of us rooming together next year?</p>
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And if I have neighbors this year that I'm friends with and spend most of their time studying too, should I see about all of us rooming together next year?
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<p>Wait a bit to figure out what you want to do next year. It's only a month into school. You may hate their guts by next semester and regret that you're going to have to live with them for another year. </p>
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Also, for junior year, if I want to be in Furnald, how hard is it to get to be an RA there? I don't really think that being an RA seems that hard, my floor's RA hasn't really had to do much other than file a couple of maintenence reports ('cause we're all somewhat lazy with that stuff) and put stuff on his door.
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<p>I wasn't an RA, but the worst part of the job seems to be their "on call" duties. The RAs in the building rotate being "on call" every week or so. If you don't want to be having to wake up at 3AM on a Wednesday night during midterm week to go help some drunkard off to CAVA / the hospital, you probably shouldn't be an RA.</p>
<p>If RA's can't choose what building they're in, then I definitely wouldn't want to be an RA. But does the whole being able to study in your thing depend on your roommates? And how many people are usually in a room? I know it's still early in freshemen year, but it just seems that time's going by way too quickly. It feels like only yesterday it was orientation week and now the actual middle-of-the-term midterms (if we have 3 "midterms" in a class, they shouldn't be called midterm) are in a couple of weeks. What's really funny is that I'm not dreading midterms for the fact that it's a lot of test in one week, I'm dreading them because they mean that I'm already a quarter of the way through freshmen year, and halfway through the term.</p>
<p>yeah, time flies. but on the other side of things, every day in college is different from every other day, there's infinite variety if you seek it. the same isn't true nearly as readily in the real world.</p>
<p>Is it true that some dorms don't habe a/c</p>
<p>of the freshman dorms, john jay and hartley/wallach do not have a/c ...you only really need the a/c in september and april/may. as far as i know though, all the dorms have heat, though dismal at times. </p>
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If you don't want to be having to wake up at 3AM on a Wednesday night during midterm week to go help some drunkard off to CAVA / the hospital, you probably shouldn't be an RA.
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<p>first of all RAs do not go to the hospital with CAVA, the GA (grad student advisor) has to though. also, unless you are a freshman RA you wont be spending very much time at all on RA duties since noone wants to have anything to do with you. Their "on call" duty is mostly symbolic during the week and involves going on rounds one or two weekends per semester....sounds like a pretty sweet deal to me since you get free housing!</p>
<p>Lack of a\c was not a problem this year in Hartly. My son likes his a\c, but this year temps were cool enough he didn't complain.</p>
<p>How difficult is it to get Schapiro/Wien sophmore year? I've heard they're pretty good for studying, are they?</p>
<p>Schapiro single as a soph. is nearly impossible. Wien single is 50/50 or better I think.</p>
<p>Any single is pretty good for studying.</p>
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Schapiro single as a soph. is nearly impossible. Wien single is 50/50 or better I think.
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<p>this is no longer true.</p>
<p>A schapiro single is impossible to get as a soph and a wien single is almost impossible to get as a soph. The only singles open during the lottery by the time sophomores were picking were furnald singles because juniors and seniors can't pick those. Approximately 100 sophomores end up in those singles and that's it. Sophomores who want singles usually apply to the LLC.</p>
<p>Makes sense; I stand corrected. I'm not commenting on housing lottery stuff from now on.</p>
<p>So most of Wien singles are juniors? That sucks.</p>
<p>^My S was in Wien last year in a walk through double, so pretty close to a single, as a soph. But he had a good number. (His schapiro single this year is much nicer :))</p>
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So most of Wien singles are juniors?
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<p>...yes...</p>
<p>as a soph your best bets are mcbain doubles, schap doubles and EC exclusion suite doubles.</p>
<p>For sophmores, are there any other places to get singles other than Furnald, Schapiro, and Wien?</p>
<p>I've heard some real horror stories about McBain. Not just the partying getting out of hand, but people having rats in their rooms and other such pleasantries.</p>