<p>So I'm applying for a new roommate because mine are reallyyyyyy weird. Anyway you need to list your top 4 housing preferences. I want to live in a really social dorm in a double on a typical floor filled with doubles.
I know my first preference is to live in Donlon.
For the next 3 I've narrowed it down to Mews Hall, Kay Hall, Court Hall, and Bauer Hall.
Anyone have advice about which is better than the others? Thanks :)</p>
<p>■■■■■. Good luck.</p>
<p>Mews/Court-Kay-Bauer are essentially the same dorm, and
a) Everyone wants to live there because they are new and air conditioned
b) They are nowhere near as social as Donlon or Dickson.</p>
<p>Sidenote: Why do you feel entitled to move out of your room simply because you think your roommate(s) is(are) weird? This is college. Quit whining and deal with it like everyone else did.</p>
<p>You have no idea what they are like so for you to bash me without knowing any information is pathetic.</p>
<p>I’d say it is warranted since the way you posted this topic was egregious. As chendrix said, one can’t expect to always get what room/roommates one wants. Also, it’s not terribly easy to switch rooms, either.</p>
<p>There’s a new thing this year to switch rooms before school starts.
And sorry you don’t like the way I sound, but that doesn’t change the fact that I need information on housing.</p>
<p>So then do share, what is so absolutely terrible about your roommates that warrants a switch?</p>
<p>housing.cornell.edu There has to be something there.</p>
<p>I don’t need to prove myself to you so you believe me.
And the website won’t list cons of a certain hall or list how it’s better or worse than others so that doesn’t help much.</p>
<p>If you want that sort of detailed information then you’ll have to ask around these parts (from students that were in dorms). The housing staff isn’t going to actively deduce the “pros and cons” of its own dorms.</p>
<p>Which is the exact reason I posted the question here…</p>
<p>Your reasonings on another page include their wanting to “go to bed at 11 and wake up at 6” as a negative.</p>
<p>Really, though? I sincerely hope you have better reasons than this, because you just sound petty and childish.</p>
<p>You don’t have to be biffles with your roommates, just civil. The highrises can be plenty social and also plenty intimate if you aren’t a recluse. Your social life isn’t suddenly going to become party boy because you are in Donlon/CKB/Mews.</p>
<p>You haven’t even actually met these kids and you are already judging them to be poor roommates. Tons of people each year deal with less-than-ideal matches, and get through it just fine. It’s part of growing up to deal with situations you would rather not be in. If you got your way every time you raised a minor stink, you’d end up turning out just a self-entitled brat.</p>
<p>So unless these kids have threatened your life, and you fear for your safety, I’d say suck it up, bucko.</p>
<p>That is not the reason whatsoever. I’m pretty sure I could deal with that. If you’re not gonna help you please stop posting because I don’t need you ranting.</p>
<p>I already told you Mews/Court-Kay-Bauer are essentially the same dorm.</p>
<p>All have air conditioning, all are new, carpeted, mostly doubles, set up in suite styles, share a bathroom with usually 4 other people.</p>
<p>Marginal differences:
Bauer has part of the skybridge, the elevator, its own laundry room, and the ping-pong table/pool table.
Kay also has the skybridge, the red lounge on the 1st floor, and a larger laundry room/vending machines.
Court has the 1st floor study rooms/is closest to appel/RPCC.</p>
<p>The sociability of your floor will entirely depend on how well your floor clicks. I had a very fun cohesive, social time in 3-Bauer, whereas I had friends in Kay who had a floor of recluses.</p>
<p>Mews is setup slightly differently, as its main entertainment/study areas are centrally located, and the hallways of rooms themselves are branched off from the center. Mews to me always felt too much like a hotel rather than a dorm in its setup, but it has some pretty sweet tv rooms.</p>
<p>There is a lot of programming done in CKB and there are opportunities to get involved planning them. If Frances & Phiroze are still FIR, then they are fantastic and are always happy, comforting, and generous.</p>
<p>Then don’t make incendiary (and contradictory) topics like this. >_>
This topic looks like one in which you want help picking housing rather than one that outlines the character of dorms.</p>
<p>jshapiro, deal with your roommates. If you transfer out, there is a good chance you will only get weirder roommates because only the people with the absolute weirdest room mates transfer in the first two weeks. I have known some WEIRD kids here and their room mates mostly didn’t leave until halfway through first semester at the earliest. If you cannot make it through a few weeks with this kid and have to transfer prematurely than you truly are a pretentious prick and I am sorry that cornell accepted you and that I have to share our campus with you. Deal with it, at least until you meet the damn kid.</p>
<p>there’s nothing wrong with trying to transfer.</p>
<p>I was placed into a townhouse, but since FA won’t cover the extra expenses, i’m trying to get into a normal dorm. not everyone that transfers is a pretentious prick.</p>
<p>you are transferring for a different reason from that of the OP, gregb.</p>
<p>anyway, what i’m about to say may not necessarily be helpful, because imo, this situation warrants a change in attitude, not dorm. if you don’t want to read what i’m about to say, then you dont have to.</p>
<p>first of all, i highly doubt Cornell housing will allow you to change just because you think your roomates are weird. just sayin’. i’m not sure where you are getting this new roommate change thing because i’ve never heard of it… secondly, i agree with chendrix in that you will not become a social butterfly just because you decide to live in a different dorm. also, i don’t really care how weird a person may sound through who-knows-what-form-of-communication, why aren’t you giving your roommates a chance? imagine if they read this post and figured out you had such a low opinion of them. besides, it’s not like you HAVE to be BFFs with your roommates. just my two cents.</p>
<p>It’s just amazing how everyone on this site just judges you without knowing anything.</p>
<p>I answered your questions on minutiae. Are you satisfied?</p>
<p>Yup I’m good :).</p>