<p>Just found out I'm in Low Rise 6. For anyone at Cornell, what is the rep for the Low Rises and Low Rise 6? Are they pretty social or just about dead when it comes to having fun? I know that they probably change every year since it is a whole new group of people, but I am just wondering how the Low Rises are seen by Cornellians. Are the rooms (specifically doubles) pretty big? Nice or meh? Let me know what you think.</p>
<p>ooh i got a single at Low Rise 7. I heard that the singles there are smaller than usual... bah!</p>
<p>That's another question I had...are the Low Rises somehow connected?</p>
<p>The LR's are two separate buildings. I lived in LR6 in 04/05. IMHO it was a good place to live. I had a double which was previously a triple, so it was really big. If you get an upstairs corner room like mine, you will be very happy. The singles are decent, i think they are slightly larger than those in court/mews and such. The general view in sort of a joking way is that the LR's are the "projects". You arent going to meet ten million people like in donlon, but the living situation makes it so that you are close with the people that you live with. It's like more of a family type of environment, if you will. There are still more than a hundred people in the building, so if you poke around you will meet plenty of folks. My year and last year it was very social, pretty much everyone who i lived with went out a lot. So it's not the most popular place to live but it's still a fun time in my opinion.</p>
<p>are the low-rises each predominantly one gender? cuz so far it seems like one has all boys and the other is mostly girls..</p>
<p>No. It is split fairly evenly, in my experience.</p>
<p>i'm curious, what is the entry system into the low rises?</p>
<p>Card swipe in my day, but I think LR7 and maybe both got the proximity scanner thingies last year.</p>
<p>How's the bathroom situation like over there?</p>
<p>Is it the worst of the North Campus dorms? (I'm hearing rumors already :( )</p>
<p>Yeah. I got stuck in a triple in LR-6. Both were definately not my top choices. I'm a bit nervous...</p>
<p>low rises are nice. it's like your own little community. don't worry about your facilities and layout. Every building has it's plusses and minuses.</p>
<p>-ct, mews, and bauer may have air conditioning, but you will want that for maybe 2 months of the year. also they have really thin walls.<br>
-donlon maybe be a party dorm, but good luck sleeping before a prelim, or getting a single.<br>
-Dickson may have around 500 generally social single rooms, but you could still get stuck in a hall where most kids are really quiet and you'd chill with an adjacent hall a lot. Plus the laundry is mad deep, all the way in the basement.
-townhouses are a sick living layout, but they're the farthest away from central campus</p>
<p>every facility has plusses and minuses. low rises have a nice social setup, are right next to both dining halls, and, in all honesty, what dorm you are in really doesn't matter that much. you make tons of friends outside of your building (more than you make inside it, even in a large dorm probably), and there are bound to be a few people nearby whom you get along with regardless.</p>
<p>what is the deal with the ghetto reputation of the low rises?</p>
<p>...have you seen them? The'yre not really that bad imo, just different.</p>
<p>i haven't actually, i've just heard. what do you mean by different?</p>
<p><a href="http://images.classof.cornell.edu/media/1.1086182511.jpg%5B/url%5D">http://images.classof.cornell.edu/media/1.1086182511.jpg</a> is dickson and <a href="http://images.classof.cornell.edu/media/tt/tt_1.1086184375.jpg%5B/url%5D">http://images.classof.cornell.edu/media/tt/tt_1.1086184375.jpg</a> is low rise 7</p>
