<p>Can any Harvard students, or parents, tell me about Matthews Hall! How are the rooms set up? Advantages? Disadvantages?</p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~trishin/sergey/galleries/2004/froshdorms/matthews/index.htm[/url]”>http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~trishin/sergey/galleries/2004/froshdorms/matthews/index.htm</a></p>
<p>There is another CC link referring to Matthews at the bottom of this thread, which might have some information for you.</p>
<p>matthews is pretty cool. congrats.</p>
<p>Hey collegebound! For my prefrosh weekend, I stayed at Matthews Hall.</p>
<p>From what I gathered, there were lots and lots of bricks. There’s a shared bathroom on each floor, and on the floor I stayed in (I think it was the third floor), there were about four dorms, I believe.</p>
<p>Okay, and in the dorm I stayed in, which was relatively messy, there was a nice little corner that stuck out and looked outside, which was really nice. At night, I could hear people, but it wasn’t noisy at all, but sort of soothing. And the floors were nice, too. They weren’t carpet, though. There were two rooms and three roommates, and three desks. The desks looked nice and sturdy, and one of the rooms had bunk beds.</p>
<p>If there’s anything else I haven’t said, feel free to ask!</p>
<p>my son lived in Matthews last year and loved it! The building is nicely located in the center of the yard. He had a double and a single with 3 guys sharing the room. They traded equal time for the single.</p>
<p>thanks! so how are the hallway bathrooms?</p>
<p>for the most part my son didn’t complain about the bathrooms too much. Every once in a while there would be someone who would clog the toilet and leave it.</p>
<p>Matthews Hall can be nice, depends where you’re located in it</p>
<p>Great location - the Yard in front and a cool little courtyard behind! Incidentally, the foundation of the original 1636 building of Harvard College was found when the foundation for Matthews were being dug, so Matthews sits on the most historic spot on the Yard.</p>
<p>Matthews has two entrances and is split North/South (or East/West) and by recollection you can move from one side to the other only on the first and fifth floors. There are only a handful of suites on each floor, so you get to know each other pretty well. Also the girl’s bathroom’s are on the Second, Third and Fourth floors and the guy’s are on the First and Fifth. My son said it was sort of a PITA to be a guy on the Third Floor.</p>
<p>Is it true that women’s bathrooms are only on the second, third, and fourth floor like the above comment states?!?!?! Has this changed since 2006? Thanks!</p>
<p>Proctored in '10, and those were the bathroom designations (at least on the south side but probably the same for the north side). The best thing about having common bathrooms is that they are cleaned daily (or at least every weekday, trying to remember about weekends) by Harvard Maintenance (as opposed to in-suite bathrooms in some other dorms which are cleaned weekly to bi-weekly by dorm crew).</p>
<p>Access between entryways is through the basement and upper floors.</p>