<p>Can anyone tell me anything about Douglas Hall? I'm basically trying to decide between Upper Rez and Douglas. Can anyone give me a compare/contrast of them. </p>
<p>I already read that the rooms are smaller than upper rez, but are they unmanageably small? Whats the atmosphere like? Is there a lot of partying, and is it more or less than Upper Rez. Is there a good sense of community? How is it different from Upper Rez?</p>
<p>Given the choice I'd SO choose douglas. </p>
<p>Reasons:
1. it's a really nice dorm, the common room and the cafeteria are be-autiful.
2. it's divided up into "houses", so within the residence you not only have your floor, but your house that you do stuff with. The idea is pretty appealing to me.<br>
3. there are common rooms on every floor. On some floors, there are also study rooms in addition to the common rooms. Other dorms only have one study room and common room, and that's on the main level
4. the cafeteria is in the building</p>
<p>Here's the other side though, for comparision
1. Upper rez rooms are bigger, though not by a lot, than douglas (doug has wooden floors though, or at least the ones i looked at when my neighbor came by to look at mcgill),
2. Some of hte upper rez rooms are co-ed but have single sex washrooms.
3. Upper rez rooms have more windows than doug does. so it's more "open" feeling. </p>
<p>I dunno which is the more partier dorm, I've heard upper residence is the rowdier, but so much of that depends on your floor or house, rather than what rez you're in.</p>
<p>I think I'm going to choose douglas. Was wondering which room scheme to choose, double or single? I heard that having a double gives you a better opportunity to make good friends but wont living accomodation be really cramped for its sake? What do people recommend?</p>
<p>I just visited Mcgill yesturday and I visited some of the residences, so here's my two cents worth. I didn't get to see Douglas, but my friends saw the laundry area in Douglas Hall while I waited for them outside with blistered feet (went clubbing =)! ). They told me that the laundry area is really bad..it's small and pretty ugly. However, I don't think the laundry area is that important, so I wouldn't take that too much into consideration. I did go into McConnell Hall and looked inside a single room. There is a common room and a tv room with a relatively big tv on the ground floor, as well as a games room with a pool table. It's pretty spacious and bright. There are elevators and on each floor there are two wings. For McConnell it's one wing for the guys and the other for the girls. The other two BMH residences are completely coed. There's one bathroom in each of the two wings which has two stalls (toilets), two or three urinals, three showers or so and a couple of sinks. The custodian said that although there are only two toilets in each wing there are no conflicts because everyone has different schedules and you can always go to the other wing if you really need to. I think every room has a fridge, a dresser, a desk, a closet, a twin bed, and a corkscrew board. There is some extra space, but not much. All the rooms also have really big windows and very colourful curtains. It's a little small, but it's comfortable. I really hope that Douglas' rooms aren't much smaller because that would be..bad. I suppose having a roommate would be fun, but at the upper rez you all congregate in one area for meals and in the common rooms for entertainment, so I don't think it would be essential for making friends. At douglas the rooms are set up in suites, so you should get pretty close with the people you're sharing a unit with, so again getting a roommate shouldn't be essential. Nevertheless, unless you really don't get along with your roommate, it can't hurt to have one and it will exercise your tolerance for people and your social skills. You never know, your roommate might turn out to be your best friend.</p>