<p>I was recommended the north mountain halls next year as an athlete and want to see if they are a good place to live. How is the social experience here? Is it a problem because there is no lounge? I want to have lots of fun next year and don’t want to feel isolated. Anybody know how these dorms are?</p>
<p>Well the rooms in North Mountain are larger than the red brick rooms. When I walk by them everyday, the kids living there always have their doors open or are out on the lawn playing frisbee or soccer or just hanging out on the balconies. They seem to be pretty social to me.</p>
<p>Hey there, I currently live at North Mountain. My area is pretty social, most people at my building have their doors and am friends with many other rooms. So it is pretty social. Most of the students here are mainly engineering majors so in my opinion, seem a little more calmer compared to those who party every single weekend. </p>
<p>As the post stated above, the rooms are very big, and in fact why I have chosen North Mountains. The bathroom privacy is good as well. There is an inner bathroom(2 toilets, 2 showers, 2 sinks) shared by 4 rooms(8-10 ppl total). In my opinion, it’s much better than sharing the bathroom with 20+ people.</p>
<p>Cool, there are a lot of good aspects to North Mountain for sure. Would I be at a disadvantage being a biochem major and where do you guys study/hang out because it seems like NM doesn’t have it’s own place.</p>
<p>I don’t think so. I myself am not an engineering major.lol. There’s still a decent minority of other majors here. I will usually go over to Santa Lucia(Red Brick for engineering) study lounge, the Library, or into the UU(university union) building to study. As for hanging out, there’s a lot of things you can do on campus, I can go to the gym to workout, head to the bball courts to play some bball, take a swim at the pool, head over to the UU to bowl/arcade, or walk to PolyCanyon Village(PCV) to hang out with some second years.</p>
<p>Cool it sounds like you have a lot of fun, thanks for the replies. Sorry to ask another question but as far as athletes go, do they have a good time or are they more secluded? I’m really not sure how this system works and as an incoming athlete I’m pretty confused.</p>
<p>To be honest, I do not know too many athletes. But from what I do know, the biggest perk is you get priority registration(which is a major +). The athletes I do know are pretty social with their team and dorm neighbors.</p>