<p>Overall, it worked out great for me. I usually meet my friends on east campus during the day -- for lunches, after classes, in their dorms, etc. -- and have invited people for dinner at Ricker + evening hangout in GovCo a bunch of times. Nobody's complained; after all, how much of a friend are they if distance > spending time with you?</p>
<p>so overall it's been 50-50, maybe 60-40 slanted in the direction of me visiting them. and the community within fsc has been so wonderful that there's more than enough vibrance in your own hall or house.</p>
<p><em>shrug</em> so you pretty much do what I do, hang out during the day and then rely on dorm peeps for afters. I was really thinking about visiting people in the evening, cuz a lot of my friends aren't in my classes and stuff, so we don't meet that often unless we make an effort to, and being the ridiculously busy people that we are, all we usually want to do when we're back in the dorms is catch up on sleep or work. :-/</p>
<p>Hey Tave, I'm not sure if I'm officially deciding against Frosco or not.....I really want to get the total Stanford, freshman experience. </p>
<p>I like how intimate the environment is, but it's kind of a let-down that its soooooo far from some of the bigger dorms. Plus, I'm not too sure what type of social environment it is. Wow! this is getting me frustrated.</p>
<p>Tave, why do you want to be in Frosco? Just curius :)</p>
<p>At first, I thought the opportunities for smaller lectures/seminars and interactions with faculty sounded great, but I hesitated because of the distance factor. When I went back to the housing forms, I appreciated how FroSoCo seemed centered on more of a tight-knit community with a more or less intellectual focus, which appealed to me. I've never been one for parties, to be honest, but I'm not anti-social.. just not the party type of social, and it seemed like FroSoCo would let me meet a lot of people while not being involved in a crazy social scheme. Also, two-room doubles sound great, and while it seems like a bit of a walk, I don't mind a slightly longer bike ride. </p>
<p>Hope that helps... I haven't yet totally decided, but I'm leaning strongly towards it (otherwise, 4-class). I'm afraid that 4-class will be limiting, as I've been told upperclassmen are less likely to socialize- and I'm fine with social, to a degree.</p>
<p>Didn't mean to generalize- sorry! It's just that the hosts at Admit Weekend (and even some people on CC forums, I think) gave me the impression that as a freshman in a four class dorm, you're unlikely to really get to know the upperclassmen. I'm sure that does vary a lot on an individual basis, but all the same I imagine students who already have an established group of friends would be slightly less outgoing than other freshman.</p>
<p>well durin AW i hung around a 4class (UJ) and everyone was hanging out...the upperclassmen seemed more than willing to anwser my questions show me their dorms give me rides home..etc..so i guess it depends on the dorm</p>
<p>Wow, Tave! I'm sorry that you got that impression. It sounds like lookatme89 had an experience more representative of 4-class environments. I would confidently say that the majority of 4-class dorms have welcoming, friendly upperclassmen. For example, I hang out with freshmen as often as I do with upperclassmen.</p>
<p>you can go to frosoco.stanford.edu and use your sunet id to see what type of people there are and how people identify themselves there. they have profiles and stuff that you can browse. :)</p>
<p>I'm going to assume that it's there so interested students can see if they're interested...at least that's what I thought. No stalkerish intent here! :p Besides, you need a SUNet ID...</p>
<p>Seriously. Nothing more stalkerish than Facebook, which I still maintain is better in terms of privacy than MySpace, which is more stalkerish. :D</p>
<p>I think it's intended for FroSoCo kids to have info about one another, a community online, etc. not for students deciding if they want to live in FroSoCo, that would be... surprising.</p>