<p>Have anyone here lived in a "dorm-style" house? What was it like? Did it mix the positives of living in a big dorm with the intimacy of a smaller house/fewer people? Did you make friends with your housemates?</p>
<p>In my case there would be 15 students in (big!) single rooms with 2 kitchens, 4 bathrooms, and a shared common area that are professionally cleaned monthly. The location is average distance classes/campus/activities so it still has the same advantages of living close to dining halls, the community center, and so on.</p>
<p>It would probably be nice for your first year of college, maybe second year, but after that I personally would want OUT of the dorms. One year for me was plenty.</p>
<p>That’s kind of what I did, only my house was massive and it housed about a hundred people-- it was still university housing but it was a big house. But it was awesome and I’d never live in a regular dorm again. I had a single room with a private bathroom, we had tons of living rooms and lounges, a computer lab, a big study room, several kitchens, and we had a cafeteria in the house next door if we wanted it. It was great, I think the ideal on-campus living situation. Very strong sense of community, lots of fun, and MUCH more “homey” than living in a big dorm. Moving from a regular dorm to my house/dorm felt like moving from a hotel to a home. My situation was all girls, which made it even better-- girls are sometimes nicer to each other when there aren’t any guys around, and for the most part things were cleaner and better kept. </p>
<p>If the people you’d be living with sound cool/the building has a good reputation, I’d move in in a heartbeat if the price was right. It just feels better to come home to someplace that doesn’t look and function like a hotel.</p>
<p>Actually, I just learned the cleaning is biweekly, not monthly. So basically no chores except you sign up to take out the trash, which between 15 people should be every 15 weeks. It does sound like a nice set-up! I think someone would have to try and be proactive about meeting people and possibly having house events/dinners or something at the beginning, but it could be great. My only hesitation now is that it’s mostly grad students (I’ll be a rising junior)…I mean, my boyfriend is actually much older than me so age shouldn’t really make a difference, hm…</p>