<p>Does anyone know anything about Kinsolving, Roberts or Prather? Anything good/bad about them? Also, my second choice is Duren, but it seems kind of far away from everything like the gym, stadium, library. Is Duren's location kind of inconvenient? Fill me in!</p>
<p>Dont know anything about the first three you stated. But you are right about Duren, its definitely isolated from most of the campus and can be hassle(especially for the business school) to walk back and forth from.</p>
<p>Duren is NOT isolated from most of campus. It is in a very central location.</p>
<p>Campus maps do not give you the whole picture. At least half of UT’s campus (basically everything east of San Jacinto) will never be visited unless you are in the art school or are going to a football game. The same goes with everything south of MLK.</p>
<p>On the other hand, West Campus (west of Guadalupe and east of Lamar) and North Campus (north of 27th and roughly south of 45th) act as the hubs of campus life. A large number of students live in these areas, and most student-oriented businesses are based in these neighborhoods.</p>
<p>Duren, as well as Kinsolving, Whitis, and the Quad, are incredibly conveniently located, so don’t let any campus map fool you into thinking otherwise. </p>
<p>The BRP dorms, as well as Jester and San Jac, are nice too, but I don’t think the location is as great. Unless you plan on spending your entire college life in the gym and the library (and for your sake I hope not), they are a bit out of the way from everything.</p>
<p>Both sets of dorms are roughly equidistant from the main mall and six-pac where most students will have classes. The southern dorms are better for art as well as business as they’re a little closer, and are closer to the athletic venues, Gregory Gymnasium, Perry-Castaneda Library, and the University Teaching Center. The northern dorms are closer to the communications school and the engineering school, as well as the Texas Union and the Flawn Academic Center. So academically it’s a tossup, but the northern dorms are much better located for the rest of college, at least in my opinion.</p>
<p>I would say it depends on your major. Where your classes will mostly be depends on it, so while Duren may seem far for say, a Business major, it would be quite close for an engineering major.</p>
<p>Also, if you’re considering Kinsolving, it’s just down the block from Duren, really, you can see the front door of Duren if you’re standing in front of Kinsolving. As for Duren’s distance from the library, keep in mind there are many libraries on campus, I think there’s like 10 or something similar, and they are spread out over campus.</p>
<p>I don’t know anything about Prather, but for Roberts it has kind of a weird setup in that one wing does not have sinks in the rooms while the rest of the building does, if that’s important to you. I hear Kinsolving is also a popular place for people to move into, especially if they have overprotective parents. Kinsolving is convenient in that one of the dining hall is inside the building, so for a meal you don’t even have to leave your building (convenient when it’s too hot or cold outside).</p>
<p>Personally, I think that San Jacinto/Jester and Kinsolving/Duren are similar distances from the center of campus. Oh, the other thing is that if you’re in Duren/Kinsolving it’s incredibly inconvenient to head towards the Speedway/24th intersection due to construction cutting off many paths through the center of the area, you have to go around.</p>