Housing

<p>Does anyone have anymore insight on Washburn? I am interested… and antsy!!!</p>

<p>I know that my D had several friends in Washburn but that doesn’t tell you a lot. I believe it’s the smallest of the Green Street houses.</p>

<p>Washburn is very small and quiet, even by Green Street standards. It also has a computer lab, which can come in handy.</p>

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<p>It is possible to study abroad 1st semester junior year and not have a room available in your house for spring term. Happened to a friends dtr. Smith’s system is still superior to MHC. I’m not sure why MHC continues to have the lottery system they do. Have yet to receive a reasonable explanation.</p>

<p>There was someone who lived in the house I lived in last year that studied abroad during a fall semester & had to move into our house, instead for the spring semester since there were no rooms avaliable in the house she had lived in during previous years. So I would say that yes, there is a chance of that happening. Especially with both this year and last year having more accepted students enrolling than predicted + less upperclass students studying abroad, there has been a housing crunch, as others have noted. Though much more often than not, things work out fine- someone returning from a fall semester abroad can likely get a room in the house they lived in previously for spring semester with rooms opening up after those studying abroad spring semester leave or there’s sometimes a J-term grad with just the fall semester left.</p>

<p>Dp most half year study abroad go fall or spring? Is there and advantage to one over the other? (sorry I know this is a bit off topic but don’t want to start a whole new thread)</p>

<p>Most abroad students do a full year. D split hers between Washington and Budapest, Washington not being “abroad” but “away.” One of D’s friends split time between Rome and Oxford; that sounded like heaven to me. But I think there aren’t all that many students that go away for only one semester.</p>

<p>Speaking as a half-year abroad student in Britain, I think there’s some social advantage to going in the fall if you’re only going half-year. Most of the events that foreign colleges hold for new students to meet each other happen in the fall and by the spring I found that my British classmates were not interested in making new friends thank you very much. </p>

<p>Still, I wouldn’t give up my semester in washington (I did the same program as TD’s D, but not the same year) for anything, so I only had the option of going abroad in the spring, so I had to make do with what was open to me. </p>

<p>One advantage of going in the spring however is that if you love the country and want to travel or try to get a foreign internship, you can slide right into summer abroad without having to pay extra airfare to come home and go back.</p>

<p>And while most do intend to go abroad for a year, not everyone makes it. All of my friends went to study abroad, supposedly all for a year, but about half returned after completing just one semester for various reasons.</p>