<p>Can anyone tell me anything about the Richardson House (female housing) and/or healthy living? Are they good choices?</p>
<p>Do you want to live in all female or in healthy living? That's what it comes down to.</p>
<p>I can tell you this, they're less mainstream, you'll still meet a ton of people, healthy living and otherwise, but it may be a little more weighted towards healthy living people than average.
as for Richardson, I met one girl who had lived in richardson house and switched out of it (just because of reslife juggling people whose roomates had left) and nobody knew where she came from, except that she "used to live in richardson house." I get the feeling that it might be a little bit of it's own community, but that's not very strongly substantiated... i actually don't know much about it. </p>
<p>Healthy living for Freshmen is in Hill Hall, which has Male and Female sides. One end of the hall is all girls, the other is all guys. There's no divider or anything, but you're still mostly surrounded by peple of the same gender.</p>
<p>Richarson does have a pretty damn good location, across the street from tisch and right next to the campus center. Hill's a little bit out of the way, but not too bad, and it's easy to get to the gym and boston ave from there. But don't choose based on that. A good living situation trumps a short walk to lunch.</p>
<p>Personally, I don't think it's really worth living in Healthy Living. The other kids are a lot, if I may be so bold, cooler, and it doesn't actaully get so drunken or rowdy that you can't study. If you don't want to drink that's fine, but I don't think you need to live on a healthy living floor to do that. </p>
<p>But really, it's up to you. Pick whatever you think would be the most comfortable to you. Any way you go, it will be good.</p>
<p>It's really up to you, but everyone I've met who lived in Richardson last year hated it. People who lived in Richardson also had to move out during the winter break to accomodate international students who decided to stay at Tufts during the break.</p>
<p>Thanks for the input - but do you know why they hated it?</p>
<p>If you live in a freshman dorm that is not healthy living, it definitely gets rowdy. Forget trying to sleep on Thursday nights.</p>
<p>oh come on people, don't generalize like that.</p>
<p>I've known a few floors of Tilton that were "unnaturally quiet", and sometimes there aren't enough people who specifically requested Healthy Living, so they shove other kids onto Healthy Living floors. one of the floors of Carmichael used to be HL, and so did one of the floors of South. Might I remind you, those floors are HUGE, so not everyone living on them particularly wanted to be on an HL floor, they just got placed there. </p>
<p>I know a couple of religious girls who requested Richardson for those reasons. But then I knew a girl who was...shall we say..."experienced" with guys, and she got placed in Richardson and didn't mind at all. Said that the rooms were huge, the location was great, and she really liked the girls living near her. All in the eye of the beholder, I guess. Besides, that girl is social and cool and would meet guy friends - and more than friends, lol - regardless of whether or not they lived next door to her.</p>