<p>I was filling out my living preferences questionaire and wasn't sure what to do regarding the living learning communities offerred. I went to their websites and they sound fun and interesting, but I don't know if I should apply to one or just do random/normal housing. Has anyone here been a part of one? Would you recommend it?</p>
<p>If you're an incoming freshmen, I'd recommend just doing regular housing. The advantage to living-learning communities is that they are housed in the Southwest Quad, which is the newest dorm complex (only 4 years old), and it is really nice. However, the floors are mixed-years, and while you get to meet a lot of older students, you don't get that bonding experience with other freshmen, as there may only be about 4-6 other freshmen on your floor. Also, a lot of times the communities sound pretty interesting, but don't really follow through on programming, so the kids on these floors don't really feel like they're getting anything out of living there. </p>
<p>The one floor that I've heard good things about and would actually recommend is the Culture and Performance Floor, since they are pretty active, but you don't really hear much about the rest since they don't really do much.
The exception to this is the Living-Well floor (alcohol/substance-free) or single-sex floors, which are in freshmen dorms. I wouldn't recommend the living well floor unless you are super hardcore straight-edge due to religion or whatever. Even if you don't drink, I'd recommend just living on a normal freshmen floor (I have plenty of friends that don't drink, and didn't feel pressured to do so, even living on normal floors). </p>
<p>I've never personally lived on a LLC floor, but this is just what I've observed from visiting them and from friends that have lived on them.</p>
<p>I'm considering a living well LLC as well.....I don't drink/smoke or party nonstop so that may be a good option I'm told......I've heard they only room frosh w/ frosh...Also..the living well floors will be in Harbin next year which sounds cool. I'm also considering a guy's "quiet floor"...any opinions on that?</p>
<p>I've heard the "quiet floors" aren't that "quiet". At least my freshman year, a lot of people on single sex or quiet floors didn't request to be put on these floors, they were just randomly placed there, so they didn't really create the "quiet floor" environment. My ex-boyfriend's floor was supposedly a co-ed "quiet floor", but they were even louder than my "non-quiet" floor, so I guess it really depends on the group of people placed on the floor, as I don't think they do much to enforce noise violations except during exam periods. If you're interested in it, I'd say go for it though. Maybe they've gotten better about placing kids on quiet floors.</p>