<p>I just logged in to my housing portal and found out that I got a single room in Mews Hall. It sure looks nice on the website but can anybody tell me more about Mews? Is it good or bad compared to the other resident halls?</p>
<p>Thanks in advance!!</p>
<p>All I know is that there is a fitness center just built recently. Is there anything greater than this? hehe</p>
<p>How do you know you are single? Also can anyone figure these numbers out? Room Reservation: HILC 8241-1</p>
<p>Fitness center, what? </p>
<p>Mews is very nice, you got a very nice dorm.</p>
<p>Mews is very nice. It opened in 2001 the same time that CKB and Appel opened. It's very modern and it has air conditioning.</p>
<p>Mews single too. Would have preferred a single in Dickson, but this was my second choice.
Would anyone care to explain how the suites are set up? Are you isolated from people outside your suite or is there a lot of intermingling?</p>
<p>Nevermind, I just found the floor plan here: <a href="http://www.facebook.com/photo_search.php?oid=2365739780&view=all%5B/url%5D">http://www.facebook.com/photo_search.php?oid=2365739780&view=all</a> and the suites make sense.</p>
<p>mews is great, and it doesn't have a fitness center, but it is the closest dorm to appel (2 seconds away).</p>
<p>there's an east and west side - both are connected at the first floor but for the most part function as 2 separate dorms. There are 3 floors</p>
<p>for the most part it's the best/most modern dorm, the only major cons are:
-you need to swipe the card twice to get anywhere - once for the main door and once for either stairs or elevator
-doors don't automatically prop open
-walls paper thin</p>
<p>most suites are 5 people - 2 doubles and a single to a bathroom. it's not hard to hang out with people outside your suite at all, other floors maybe, but you'll basically hang out with your floor. lounges are very nice. over all a good dorm, and you don't even have to deal with the risk of a bad roommate, so you should be fine</p>
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<p>Things could get awkward I imagine.</p>
<p>Thanks for the replies, guys!</p>
<p>Here are some details of my room:
Room Reservation Details
Room: MEWS 311B
Room Type: UG Single
Location: Mews Hall
Floor: - </p>
<p>please send me a message if anyone live close to me~</p>
<p>Bauer Hall is pretty much similar to Mews right?</p>
<p>Yea Bauer is very similar to Mews. Bauer is very baller and arguably has an even better view of things. I have a special reason for liking Bauer so much :D and it's so sad that time passes so quickly...BUT you will looooove it. If you like modernnness, of course. But with that comes cleanliness and simplicity. And it's social enough; a great great dorm I'd say. Great location; great views.</p>
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<p>I'm down the hall, but am not about to put my room number on cc. Anyway, I'm sure we'll meet the first day.</p>
<p>Mews Single here too! I was afraid I wouldn't be able to meet people without a roommate, but seeing as there are others with singles, I think we should get to know each other more (as well as the rest of the building!)</p>
<p>A roommate is only a social crutch for the first couple of days, so that you have someone to go to meals with and hang out with in your down time. But I'm pumped about having a single. You don't have to deal with other's messes, you only have to deal with one alarm, you can have private time (which means whatever you want it to mean), you can have whomever you want over for the night, etc.</p>
<p>you'll be just fine making friends in a single - just hang out with your suitemates and people close by in your hall - groups of people who hang out together will naturally sort themselves out. if i had to do it all over again i'd choose a single just to avoid the crappy roommate experience i had, so trust me, a single (and probably double with someone you already know) is a great way to go.</p>
<p>Da Funk, I agree with you on why not having a roommate is good, but what happens when you're sick or suddenly faint or whatever. No one there to help you out/buy you medicine.</p>
<p>Seriously???
I can't say I've ever suddenly fainted, or ever felt so bad that I couldn't get on a bus (to go to Gannett or the hospital... where they would give medicine). Also if you have a roommate that you don't get along with, I don't know how enthusiastic they would be to take care of you (and you would still have to get out of the room to get your own prescriptions).</p>