Official Dormitory Thread (calling current students!)

<p>there was a kitchen with a stove on the 1st floor of unit 1. it looked like a full kitchen. you can "check out" pots and pans if you get the urge to cook a meal.
we didn't go see unit 2. we heard they are identical.</p>

<p>"you can request an all girls floor in the units. Either that or Stern/Foothill if you don't mind them being antisocial."</p>

<p>is Stern really 'antisocial'?</p>

<p>Prospective students:</p>

<p>All mini suites in Units 1 and 2 will be 100% for returning students. Do not waste one of your 5 slots choices on those.</p>

<p>foothill should be easy...its a longer walk and a quiter dorm (and more expensive). i hear the units are much harder to get</p>

<p>I think the cost is the same as some other buildings, like the unit mini suites. More students are in the units, and I think "how hard" they are to get isn't very much as many more rooms exist in them. If you want them, don't hesitate to put them down as you might, say, a Clark Kerr double suite.</p>

<p>which dorm is the most ideal for quiet studying?</p>

<p>Foothill. Though in the Units, there are plenty of study areas in the central underground area.</p>

<p>Foothill, especially Hillside, is just about the quietest dorm on campus. Most of the time, you'll hear birds, wind, and doors. Occasionally you'll see an actual student.</p>

<p>foothill sounds ideal.... but it's way more expensive than the Units... and since all berkeley is giving me are about $500,000 in loans....</p>

<p>Well, isn't foothill what the mini suites cost, or thereabouts? And there is more space per person in foothill, and the common rooms.</p>

<p>Has anyone here had any experience in Unit triples? I would really like to dorm in the Units, my first three choices will be unit doubles. But for my last choices I don't know which one would be better, triples in the units or having a bigger room but in something farther off like foothill</p>

<p>Is there advnatage/disadvantage to living in suites rather than just dorm rooms like in the Units?</p>

<p>Are we ever allowed to change our Housing Decisions?</p>

<p>you can e-mail the housing office with your changes. they sent me back a confirmation the same day they updated my housing app with my changes.
the e-mail is <a href="mailto:reshall@berkeley.edu">reshall@berkeley.edu</a></p>

<p>What dorm building would you reccomend for someone who likes to party on the weekends but likes quiet during the week?</p>

<p>Well, Foothill and Clark Kerr tend to be quieter than the Units, but many quiet floors exist. And few students stay in dorms to party.</p>

<p>i find coed bathroom akward! was it hard adjusting? or does every1 have the mentality that you ust do what you gotta do lol</p>

<p>Not everyone lives with co-ed bathrooms. Some floors are single sex, with single sex bathrooms. Mini suites have all one sex in them. Many have your mentality, don't feel too special, even though you are. ;)</p>

<p>My parents are cheap so I had to put triples as my first three choices.</p>

<p>DRab is hitting on me!!! if your parents are paying i wouldn't biatch at all...this stuff is expensive yadididmean?</p>