<p>What's the deal? I've heard both really good things and really bad things about newing. From some people I know that live in the mountainview/hinman area, they seem to hate newing and only think mountainview hinman and CIW are decent dorms and newing is sort of a reject. Then again from people living in newing they love it and when I saw some of the new buildings they looked really nice to me. So anyone currently live there or know anything more about it?</p>
<p>newing is in the process of being rebuilt. there is one new dorm and the rest are old dorms. this year. for next year, construction will be complete on all the new newing dorms and new dining hall (there’s been no newing dining hall since they tore the old one down). newing will then be the newest dorm community (at least until dickinson is also rebuilt.</p>
<p>the old newing had a reputation for attracting jocks and frats. it was also old and corridor style. so unless you were interested in one of the groups traditionally associated with newing, a lot of students avoided newing (though many who lived there loved it, even if not part of one of the “types” usually associated with newing). now that the dorms will be all new, my guess is that it will become more popular. the new newing dorms are still corridor, but with semi-private bathrooms. </p>
<p>as reflected in the input you’ve gotten – most people end up liking where ever they end up living. one of the things about the residential community system is people often end up very loyal to their community and enjoy their community’s traditions. (if you go to the reslife website and look at each community, you can see what their traditions are.)</p>
<p>Newing is out of the way in a lot of different ways. It’s an additional five minute walk to get to those buildings compared to CIW or Hinman. Mountainview has this walk as well but its because of the mountain, not the distance. That’s why I wouldn’t want to live there.</p>
<p>Which dorms are the best to consider? I am leaning towards the new Newing but am having trouble figuring out what it would look like?</p>
<p>[Binghamton</a> University - Residential Life - Newing College - Room Styles](<a href=“http://www.reslife.binghamton.edu/newing/room-types.html]Binghamton”>http://www.reslife.binghamton.edu/newing/room-types.html)</p>
<p>I saw that page on the website. I’m confused about the “3 bedroom layout”? Are there two beds in each room? Does this mean it looks like the Hinman? I’ve seen that and it is a suite with 3 bedrooms; 2 beds in each and then a bathroom for the whole suite. Is the new newing similar?</p>
<p>My second choice would be mountain view and then I’m not sure.</p>
<p>Hinman has suites – bedrooms, bathroom, suite lounge.</p>
<p>The new Newing dorms are a modified corridor style – rather than all rooms on the corridor sharing one bathroom (the way old Newing was and Dickinson and many rooms in CIW are), the rooms are grouped together such that three rooms share bathrooms. There aren’t suite lounges. Have you looked here? [Binghamton</a> University - Residential Life - Newing College - Room Styles](<a href=“http://www.reslife.binghamton.edu/newing/room-types.html]Binghamton”>http://www.reslife.binghamton.edu/newing/room-types.html) Scroll down to the floor plan for Bingham hall – Bingham is the only one of the new Newing dorms in use now – the others will open for the fall. The color coding shows how the rooms are grouped together for sharing the bathrooms. </p>
<p>All rooms are doubles – some exceptions to that for upper classmen – but for freshmen the norm is doubles. If they end up with more freshmen than they can accommodate in double rooms, there may then be forced “temporary” triples. How prevalent that is depends on how many freshmen end up accepting admission. How temporary is it depends on whether there end up being open spaces to move people to. I think the opening of new Newing results in a net increase in dorm rooms, so hopefully there won’t be much tripling, but I don’t think its something you can predict.</p>
<p>The new newing is only for juniors and seniors though, right? I’d be coming in as a transfer junior.</p>
<p>This application is for a limited number of “hotel-style” doubles that will be available in the new Newing halls – Broome, Delaware, and Endicott. These are double bedrooms with a private bathroom. You need to be either a junior or senior next year by earned credit hours and have at least a 3.2 GPA.</p>
<p>from: <a href=“http://www.reslife.binghamton.edu/newing/index.html[/url]”>http://www.reslife.binghamton.edu/newing/index.html</a></p>
<p>Thanks a lot for clearing that up. I appreciate it. Looking forward to it next year</p>
<p>you didn’t include the full reference – this first paragraph is part of it –</p>
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<p>that it the application your cited paragraph is referring to. its for a leadership position within the dorms.</p>
<p>most of the newing rooms will be the 3 double rooms sharing 2 baths. the limited number of rooms for the application are a double room with its own bathroom – ie “hotel style.”</p>
<p>the only dorms that are only for upperclassmen are the apartment complexes (susquehanna and hillside). all the other dorms house all years. and i know in the past all the communities have had rooms set aside for freshmen (ie rooms that are not part of the housing lottery for upper classmen).</p>
<p>My mistake. I should have put those together. I’m going to try to pay the deposit next week.</p>