<p>How nice are the plazas? I saw a picture of rieber terrace and vista and man did they look sweet lol</p>
<p>I like them. Though, be aware that you’re likely to end up in Hedrick Summit as a freshmen. (The basic room structure and looking inside is practically identical.)</p>
<p>Where did you see these pictures? :)</p>
<p>The plazas look really nice on the outside and aren’t too bad on the inside. The rooms are clean, but the interior and furniture is rather plain. De Neve rooms have the nicest interior but they’re smaller than the others. All the plazas were built roughly around the same time so the rooms are rather similar.</p>
<p>Does living plaza really have much much less social interactions and isolated?</p>
<p>^im wondering the same thing too, can any current students answer this?</p>
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<p>Except that Sunset Village is a decade older and has a completely different layout.</p>
<p>My son lives in a plaza (De Neve) and his floor is very social. I guess it is kind of the luck of the draw.</p>
<p>Best case scenario: I’ll get a double in a residential Hall. Second equally awesome scenario: I get a triple on a VERY social Plaza floor.</p>
<p>^no way you’ll a double hall freshman year haha. those rooms were filled by upperclassmen so quick even in dykstra.</p>
<p>historically, plazas are anti social…its just the way the rooms are set up (not facing each other, no shared bathrooms, etc.) however, since it seems that freshman get plazas more commonly now, perhaps that will help plazas get more social. </p>
<p>Regardless, nothing beats dykstra…shame its finally closed next year.</p>
<p>de neve is basically filled with sophmores who have already established their group of friends from the previous years when they lived in halls as freshmen, but if you’re social, friendly, and easy to talk it; it’s not really hard to “infiltrate” those cliques. i knew everyone on my floor within the first 3 weeks and became really great friends with them, and these are students who planned on living together at the end of their freshmen year so they weren’t really interested in making friends. </p>
<p>in terms of size, a room in de neve is smaller than rieber vista and rieber terrace, but it has a “cleaner” look and feel, at least in my opinion. the hallways are a lot smaller and the social scene depends on your floor and the amount of effort you put in trying to meet people. </p>
<p>same thing goes for rieber vista and rieber hall, although they’re more generally social than de neve, it depends on your floor. all halls and plazas have social and “anti” social floors, as someone previous said, it’s the luck of the draw and it’s what you make of it. </p>
<p>best advice in meeting people in plazas is the keep your door open during 0 and 1st week, go room to room and introduce yourself during this time, and hang out in the lounge.</p>
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It depends on the building and it depends on the floor.</p>
<p>If housing assigns you to De Neve, like it did me, your floor will likely be overwhelmingly freshman.</p>
<p>I got De Neve Plaza - tripple, should I worry? :]</p>
<p>My son is a freshmen living in a De Neve plaza triple. He has had a great year, his hall is very social and there are a lot of freshmen. Don’t worry.</p>