<p>Are these just like regular freshman dorms or do they have a more loose set of rules like say i wanted my friends to be able to stay with me over spring break?</p>
<p>Private dorms in general have a much looser set of rules. You can typically have guests and what not. I lived at Towers, dont recommend it, but I could basically do whatever I wanted whenever I wanted, have anyone over, and throw any amount of parties as I wanted.</p>
<p>hmmm Sounds almost like an apartment but why would you recommend not staying there? If Not where would you reccomend excluding the usual freshman dorms (Jester dobie etc)</p>
<p>Yes, I’d be interested in why you wouldn’t recommend the Towers.</p>
<p>The problem with Towers is it is basically a public toilet most days. The amounts of vomit, and other matter that is all over the halls in that place is just gross. There is NO respect for property there. Period. Funny thing about freedom, kids seem to leave good sense behind. Rules, although they may feel a bit tight to you, are there for a reason. And no one stays on campus for Spring Break, so that should not be a consideration.</p>
<p>Also, some private dorms like SRD and Hardin have even tighter rules, and are the hottest private dorms at UT for a reason. It keeps the places looking nice, etc. People don’t want to step over grossness to get into their rooms.</p>
<p>Thanks for the heads up. As an older student (44 years) considering transferring this is good to know. Any places for students that are a bit more mellow & responsible? I just want to study & sleep. lol</p>
<p>I’m also a slightly older student with the same temperament (mellow), so I’m meeting with a realtor to look at buying a house out in Leander in the hill country. Want to move in? :P</p>
<p>Leader is a long way out. Austin has lot of people who work and live inside the city who would not be noisy. My neighborhood is 4 miles north of campus. About a year ago, some grad students moved in across the street in the rental house. One of the first nights they were there, a game of drunken hacky sack was held at 2 am in the morning. This is a street that is silent at that hour. I was not happy being woken and went out to tell them to go back inside. The landlord received calls from several other neighbors the next morning. These neighborhoods are able to police themselves when not many students live there.</p>
<p>You don’t need to live as far out as Leander. Parking around UT is a problem and the closer in you stay, the more buses you have available.</p>
<p>Check out all the apartments on Far West in Northwest Hills. Very mellow.</p>
<p>I have family in Leander & in the Steiner Ranch area, but like previously mentioned it is far. I’m not sure gas/time wise if it would be +ev.</p>
<p>I’m planning to live close to the Leander train station. 1 hour ride into downtown daily, good time to study, then come back home in the evenings to unwind. I think it suits me.</p>
<p>I second the Far West/Northwest Hills suggestion, or honestly, even North Campus/Hyde Park. Those are quiet neighborhoods with an abundance of professors and older students and young professionals, with shuttle service to campus. Commuting from Leander every day just seems excessive, and from what I hear, the train service is iffy. On top of that there’s no train stop near the UT campus so you’d have to take a metro rail connector bus to campus. But I don’t have any experience commuting from Leander, so obviously take what I say with a grain of salt. It could be a great idea, I dunno.</p>
<p>I live near the Lakeline metro rail station and can tell you from experience that commuting via the metro rail to campus every day wouldn’t be impossible, but I feel like it stands the chance of getting very old and inconvenient after a while. There is a connecting bus from the Martin Luther King Jr. rail station that will take you directly to campus (it’s bus 465, if anyone’s curious), though, so the process of getting to campus from the rail station is fairly straight-forward.</p>
<p>Okay, thanks for that advice. I’m coming in on the 26th for orientation and staying for a couple weeks to case out the area. </p>
<p>Another reason I’m considering buying is because having real estate appears to be the only way, besides being employed, to get in state tuition. Is there any other, easier way you know of?</p>
<p>The Galileo on 25th is pretty broad age wise, there’s a few older students. I hear there is a room available in one of the condos too, so if you are still looking it might still be an option.</p>
<p>I went with an apartment in Far West, actually, thanks :)</p>
<p>MaxRabbit in the state of Texas as long as you live in a residential apartment complex or a house whether renting or owned you can declare yourself a Texas Resident for tuition purposes. However you have to live in one or multiple of these types of residences for greater than one year. After that time you may declare instate tuition.</p>
<p>Src: My parents and a bunch of my friends own and operate apartment and housing real estate here in Houston Texas.</p>
<p>Wow, great to know oatman :)</p>
<p>I would recommend doing a google search for “Freshman Support”, they’ve got tons of videos done by actual college kids of actual college dorms. When I was applying to UT, I was always shown the model looking really nice and organized but that isn’t the reality. Right now I live at Dobie Center on Guadalupe and I really like the extra space and being so near to campus and in the middle of college life. If you have any questions over Dobie or any of the other dorms, I can help out. Good luck!</p>
<p>I was just recently admitted and I’m going to be a freshman in the fall of 2014. I’m out of state from NY. Is it hard to get a spot in the new callaway building? Also how is it in terms of strictness? The callaway building looks amazing so that is definitely my first choice but if I don’t get it then I’ll probably just end up at towers.</p>