<p>Housing assignments haven't been mailed yet but through a little creative investigation courtesy of my lovely classmates, I think I'm in Tyler or Washburn. :) :)</p>
<p>I absolutely cannot wait for housing assignmens. They're officially supposed to come out in Mid July, but since I live in Cali, I'll probably have to wait longer than that.</p>
<p>I at least want to have an idea of where I'm in...</p>
<p>TOM: yay! Green St. rocks. One of my ballet-mom friends is a Tyler alum, who just went back for her reunion, and Washburn is an unofficial sister house to D's house.</p>
<p>Oh, I'm in CA too and this is nothing official. The extension numbers of our rooms are up on Bannerweb and while they're subject to change, I think (well, I hope so because I want to be in Tyler really badly!) mine is pretty accurate. I'm not sure how I feel about that legend that says that W was conceived within Tyler walls but I guess I can get over that. :)</p>
<p>TD, is your D's house H? That was my second preference; I think it's super cool that they're the only house without a TV in the living room.</p>
<p>Geeze...how did your classmates connect your extension with the possible houses?</p>
<p>I update: I found the website <a href="http://community.livejournal.com/smithies08/49130.html%5B/url%5D">http://community.livejournal.com/smithies08/49130.html</a> via livejournal. Morris or Lawrence, it looks like.</p>
<p>i was in macedonia when the housing assignments were mailed and I had to harass my brother from afar every day until they came. Ah, the good old days.</p>
<p>TOM: yes, D is in H. Lack of TV in living room hasn't bothered her and it's almost a perverse point of pride within the house. Many people have TV's in their rooms (D doesn't), so it's not as if she's cut off.</p>
<p>Arianneg, my D is in Morris -- and LOVES it. Although she did not originally get placed on Green St. (Tyler was her first choice), she ended up taking an open spot in the fall. </p>
<p>The downside of Green St. is the food, since dining options are better in other areas of the campus.</p>
<p>However, living on Green Street means you get to be near the FABULOUS Elbow Room Cafe where their scones are literally like heaven.</p>
<p>I will most probably be in Cutter:( I wanted a pretty, nice house...</p>
<p>Blur, "house" really is [mostly] a matter of the people. You may well bond very tightly with your housemates. I know of several C-Z residents who fiercely defend their turf. </p>
<p>That said, if you really do want to change, applying for a change at the semester break is certainly within bounds. I'd advise you get to know people from as many houses as possible so that if you <em>do</em> decide to transfer, you know where some simpatico people are and know something of the character of the house you're applying to transfer into in advance.</p>
<p>Cutter's not so bad! I was in there for two years, and I made my closest smith friendships there. I wanted Haven, and I was in house depression for a while when I found out I was in Cutter. </p>
<p>But honestly, for all it's ugliness, the house has some serious positives. If you'd prefer a single, you're likely to get one. If you get assigned to a double, the doubles are HUGE. Bring lots of colorful posters, christmas tree lights, and rugs to your room. Nothing black and white, the more colorful, the more people will hang out in your room. </p>
<p>And TD is right. It will depend on the people. I can honestly say that there are some cool people staying over in Cutter for next year, and you couldn't ask for a better House pres. than Zoe Ames, she's a hilarious, wacky girl who will get real stuff done for you. I would give Cutter a chance, it might surprise you.</p>
<p>Haha..thanks TD and SmithieandProud. I am not thinking of transfering at all. If i am meant to be in Cutter, it will be the best house on campus:D</p>
<p>That's the spirit! Embrace the Soviet-style architecture!</p>
<p>I actually LIKE the architecture of C-Z, and think it is among the best of the period. (But not a lot to be said for the period.)</p>
<p>While I find C-Z ugly (and that's a mild way of putting it), the women who live there bond as much as they do in any house -- and maybe even more so. The location, too, is great, as are the dining options, either in-house or a few steps away to another.</p>
<p>I did some archival research on C-Z after I became house pres. and I found out that you are in good company MWFN. Helen Hills Hills herself (of Helen Hills Hills Chapel fame) wrote a personal letter to the president of the college expressing her outrage at the design. She said that the women after whom the houses were named were used to gracious antiques and fine arts, and that the architecture was clearly a choice of the students who "have no understanding of the world". It was a pretty great letter, if any of you newbies get placed in c-z you should go to the archives and read it.</p>
<p>blur, the nice thing about cutter-ziskind, since you're from abroad, is that it's open during both thanksgiving and spring break. The staying-during-breaks policy (which I think is stupid and unnecessarily complicated, &c.) at Smith is that you have to find someone who lives in a house that's open during break to ask if you can "borrow" their room for the break, which can be hard if you are not too good of friends with people in the green st area or cutter-z (I forget where the other vacation houses are, but I live in comstock and there are definitely no houses open for vacation in the quad). I didn't go home for thanksgiving and finding someone I was good enough friends with, who just HAPPENED to live in a house during break, that early into my first year was hard, and I ended up falling back on a friend from Bridge. Even if you do end up moving out of CZ after your first semester, that's kind of a plus!</p>
<p>Thanks to everyone who have been pointing out all the good points about Cutter. Other than the fact that it is not exactly a beauty, everything else that I have got to know about Cutter so far has been wonderful. Having an ugly room will give me an excuse to spend a bit more on decorations;)</p>