<p>Harmony hall on 110th between Bway and Amsterdam opens in Fall 2009! </p>
<p>The</a> Bwog: Harmony Hall Solves All Your Problems</p>
<p>i wonder if the effects of this will trickle down to sophomores and juniors by opening up singles in wein and schapiro</p>
<p>This won't affect first-years though, right?</p>
<p>Sounds great. My friends over at SEAS were complaining about windows that wouldn't close when it was below freezing outside. This one had better have multiple wi-fi hotspots too.</p>
<p>^it won't affect first years, it'll ease things up marginally as a soph, junior and senior. Slightly higher likelihood of getting a single as a junior. And marginally better housing for juniors and sophomores overall in the coming years. Within three years they'll probably just have enrolled more kids so it won't help sophomores.</p>
<p>People on Bwog say that Harmony, on the Watt to Wein spectrum, is closer to Wein...even with new furniture I can't imagine it's that great.</p>
<p>It has so many drawbacks: besides Careton Arms it's the farthest dorm from campus, 1 shower per floor (***?), the singles range in size from 170 sq.ft. to 78 sq.ft (for reference, the smallest freshman singles are ~105 sq. ft.), 1 fridge/stove/etc for 8-12 people, etc etc...</p>
<p>oh wow, w+f gets censored....interesting</p>
<p>It'll help out a few seniors who want big singles but missed out on the big singles in River.</p>
<p>It'll help out sophomores who really (and I mean <em>really:</em> ~75 sq. feet comes a few feet short of violating city building codes) want a single.</p>
<p>Major boon: West Side is 45 seconds away.</p>
<p>Little-known-fact: Harmony Hall in fact USED to be an undergrad dorm, more than a decade ago, and was part of the swap with the graduate schools that turned Woodbridge and Watt into undergrad residences.</p>
<p>This is a very marginal move, since Harmony doesn't have that many beds. If they really want to make a difference, they'd buy Plimpton from Barnard and have BC build a new high-rise dorm closer to campus. P-town is great living, and extremely convenient to Mudd and IAB while being a lot less convenient to Barnard's campus.</p>
<p>Barnard grad here. Columbia has tons more money than Barnard. Columbia should build the new dorm and stop its imperialistic designs on Barnard.</p>
<p>barnard should just submit to our dominion, it's worthless without us, barnyard.</p>