<p>Just curious...</p>
<p>I'm wondering how CC residential halls compare with other Ivies like Harvard, Princeton etc... I was trying to search for them but couldn't find photos of inside the rooms etc.</p>
<p>I heard that there are in-room fireplaces, etc etc in some colleges... sounds pretty cool to me!!! </p>
<p>What do you guys know about it?</p>
<p>My experience has been a bit skewed but...</p>
<p>My friend at Harvard lives in Matt Damon's old dorm (they have a list of all the people who have ever lived there). It has a mock fireplace and hardwood floors. </p>
<p>I lived at the Rosenfeld Annex at Yale this past summer. It's gorgeous with bay windows in every room, hardwood floors, and extremely clean. Basically a hotel. BUT this is reserved for seniors and only those that get EXTREMELY lucky get it. The average dorm at any of the residential colleges runs the gammut from crappy to good. Most however do tend to be slightly bigger since they don't have the space constraint columbia does.</p>
<p>Yes, space. Certainly an issue with Columbia which comes with living in such a high-density city. </p>
<p>Your friend lives in Matt Damon's ACTUAL dorm? lol hilarious. So his room has a mock fireplace that does nothing and hardwood floors? Cool!</p>
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<p>i've never heard of a working fireplace in any dorm. most yale dorms still have them but you cant use them at all, its just decoration.</p>
<p>also, most other ivies have hardwood floors just becuase of when/where they were built. </p>
<p>remember manhattan has a huge space crunch and the dorms just arent gonna be as old or as large (although there are the lucky few who get nice studio doubles...)</p>
<p>I see. The fireplace thing sounded a bit incredible anyway, but they don't even work which is silly. </p>
<p>Hardwood floors - yes that makes sense.</p>
<p>And yes, I've already agreed with the manhattan density issue.</p>
<p>Some rooms in University of Chicago have fireplaces... In Snell-Hitchcock halls.</p>
<p>Crazy shiz. I'm not going to Columbia anymore :P</p>
<p>Honestly, when I went to Yale, I didn't find that the quality of dorms was altogether that different from Columbia. Perhaps Princeton's was the nicest of what I visited.</p>
<p>well one of the perks to columbia is the singles...i know that might sound a bit antisocial but to me its def a perk.....i mean i love living in a suite this year but i dont know if i could live in a double or a tripple (a la barnard)</p>
<p>yeah, you've got plenty of opportunities to be social. it's the chance for privacy that makes a big difference. i'm not an expert on the housing of other schools, but my general impression is that it's usually much harder to get a single, especially as a freshman. even at princeton, my current roommate who went there says he had a double i think 3 years out of 4. they may be big rooms with common areas and kitchens to all of them, in otherwise beautiful houses, but the fact remains you still don't have privacy.</p>