<p>Anyone have insider knowledge that will help an incoming student choose a room in Hughes?</p>
<p>Freshmen can choose from the 2nd floor or floors 5 through 7. Any reason to choose high floor or low floor? </p>
<p>Are rooms near the lounge, bathroom, staircase, laundry room, etc., advantageous/disadvantageous?</p>
<p>I’m wondering the same thing. Just curious, how did you find out that freshman can only choose floors 2, 5, 6, or 7?</p>
<p>My daughter told me that’s what it said in the system. (I might be off on the exact numbers, but there were some floors you couldn’t choose. We were speculating they were for upper classmen.)</p>
<p>Do you know exactly where she saw that in the system? My son couldn’t find any info at all about which rooms or floors were available to choose from. Also, was your daughter able to see in the system who her “group leader” is (the person who actually will go in & select the room)? We couldn’t find that info either. What date was she given to actually go in and select the room? My son’s date is on June 11th. Thanks.</p>
<p>He has to log into the Residence site. Click the room selection tab, then in roommate management, the person who is listed first is the group leader. (The first one to deposit is the default leader, apparently.) If your son is the leader, there would be a green icon next to the other people’s names that allow him to “promote” someone else to leader. If he’s not the leader, he doesn’t see the green icon. </p>
<p>In “view rooms” my daughter saw that the rooms she could choose from were on those floors. I guess that is how she got the idea that there were two floors freshmen weren’t on?</p>
<p>She can select on June 11, too.</p>
<p>Thanks for the info. My son’s name is listed first but there is no green icon. So I guess he isn’t the group leader and maybe that’s why he isn’t able to select the “view rooms” option to see what floors he can choose from.</p>
<p>I don’t know what everyone else thinks, but for my son, everything about this roommate/housing system has been confusing and non-user friendly from the very beginning.</p>
<p>My daughter can still see the list of room options even though she “promoted” her roommate to group leader (she’s not going to be available Monday to make the selection). So I think he should be able to see the “view rooms” tab even if he’s not the group leader?</p>
<p>He can shoot an email to Housing and Dining. They might be able to help. </p>
<p>Yes, it’s confusing and I find it stressful. Possibly more stressful than my daughter does.</p>
<p>I know some people like to have control over things like choosing a roommate and choosing a room, but given how little information most incoming freshmen have about their rooming options, it just creates an unsettled feeling to place it in their hands.</p>
<p>When I went to college, we were assigned rooms and roommates freshman year. There was no stressing out over whether we were making the right decision, choosing the “best” room, etc., because it was out of our hands. In subsequent years, of course, we did get to choose our own rooming groups and rooms, but by then we had the scoop and knew how to proceed.</p>
<p>I think it’s less of a challenge for gregarious people. My daughter did manage to find another girl who matched her on parameters like keeping regular hours and socializing only in small groups. But she had to overcome her own reluctance to contact her potential matches…all of whom were too introverted to contact other people!</p>
<p>Hi! I am a rising sophomore at American, and I lived in Hughes Hall last year and will be living there again this year. As far as room selection goes, I suggest one of the higher floors. Half the rooms look out on the amphitheater (a gorgeous place) and half look out on the National Cathedral. I suggest taking a look at this floor map and deciding:</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.american.edu/ocl/housing/upload/Hughes-3-7.pdf[/url]”>http://www.american.edu/ocl/housing/upload/Hughes-3-7.pdf</a></p>
<p>The rooms on the left side of the T (311-319, 321-327) look out on the amphitheater. I believe the other side of the T looks out on the Cathedral, and the “top” part of the T, if you will, looks out on American’s quad.</p>
<p>I lived on the 7th floor for the first few months of school, and I absolutely loved the view. I then moved to the 2nd floor because I was living in a permanent triple (double the size, room 310 on that floor map). The only problem with being on the 2nd floor was that our room was right above the benches outside Hughes, where many people chose to smoke at night. That meant I needed to keep the window closed at night unless I wanted the smell of cigarette smoke in my room.</p>
<p>Hughes is a wonderful building to live in! It is a great size and a great community. If any of you have questions about Hughes, the Honors program, or American in general, feel free to ask!</p>
<p>My daughter was in Hughes last year. There are pros and cons to every room. I would not stress over it. Some people like to live near the bathroom and some try to live away from the bathroom. However, I would second bronte20111 in selecting the higher floor if available.</p>
<p>Thanks for the tips, they are very helpful. Another question for DeskPotato: the e-mail that my son received on Friday said that under Roommate Management the system would give him his roommate’s e-mail address so he can contact him about selecting a room. Neither my son nor I can find the roommate’s e-mail address anywhere in the system. Does your daughter see her roommate’s contact info (e-mail address) when she logs into the roommate management system? Are we just missing something??? Very confused…</p>
<p>I have the idea that she is in contact with her roommate via Facebook, so I’m not sure if she looked for an email address through the Residence system. I’ll ask her next time I see her.</p>
<p>Has your son looked for his roommate on Facebook? A lot of the incoming freshmen are in a Facebook group that’s not difficult to find with a search.</p>
<p>The posted floorplan for Hughes was extremely helpful; I searched on the housing page for floorplans for Letts and Anderson, but could not find them. I was wondering if someone could post here the links to Letts and Anderson, and also, perhaps you could give some tips on the pros and cons of each? Thanks very much!</p>
<p>[Housing</a> & Dining Programs | Residence Hall Floor Plans](<a href=“http://www.american.edu/ocl/housing/floorlayouts.cfm]Housing”>http://www.american.edu/ocl/housing/floorlayouts.cfm)</p>
<p>Thank you very much for the link to AU’s dorms’ floorplans! Very helpful!</p>
<p>You’re welcome. First suggestion if you Google!</p>
<p>Does anyone know if all of the available floors (2, 5, 6, and 7) are all for freshmen only, or are some of those floors mixed with freshmen & upperclassmen? Is one of those floors an all-girls floor? I wish that the school would provide this information so that the incoming freshmen could make an intelligent decision as to which room to select.</p>
<p>From poking around AU’s web site, I have found that for 2012-13, sophomores, juniors and seniors in Honors were given the option of choosing housing on the 3rd floor of Centennial or the 2nd, 3rd or 4th floor of Hughes. (<a href=“http://www.american.edu/ocl/housing/roomselection/upload/Room-Selection-Guide-2012-2013_updated.pdf[/url]”>http://www.american.edu/ocl/housing/roomselection/upload/Room-Selection-Guide-2012-2013_updated.pdf</a>) This would imply that floors 5, 6 and 7 in Hughes are all freshmen.</p>
<p>I don’t believe there are any single-sex floors.</p>
<p>Some of the Honors upperclassmen choose to move to a non-honors dorm. </p>
<p>Agree with Sikorsky - no single-sex floors in Hughes. However, since there are more females than males, you will definitely have more women on your floor.</p>