<p>That’d be cool! 
Whatever you choose, I’m sure you’ll be happy.</p>
<p>pregame - drinking before you go out. wow i can’t wait to see you wandering around ctown during o-week slowly figuring all this out.</p>
<p>if you are meeting people they won’t suddenly stop talking to you because they think that the fact that you live in balch should tell them something about you. some several common reactions from boys:
(always): “did you request it?” (even if you did, say no! they might judge you if you say you wanted it)
“really, can i come to your room? ive always wanted to see balch…”
“really? you’re so normal! is everyone around you so weird?”
“do you even know the people around you?”</p>
<p>best responses (ive found)
“my room is probably 5 times the size of yours so im really not complaining”
“im outgoing enough that it really hasnt been a problem”</p>
<p>guy’s response
(always): “yeah actually my room is a tiny dirty pit thats far away from everything, i wish i could live in balch. now can i come back to your room?”</p>
<p>haha okay…too bad there is no balch for the poor guys :(</p>
<p>ew. think about how an all-guy dorm would be.
So stinky. Seriously, boys are slobs. my boyfriend included (i live with the pig)</p>
<p>haha gross…you are right probably not the brightest idea</p>
<p>Oh yeah I meant Balch, just used the word dorms because I couldn’t think of another word , I guess building is another word for it</p>
<p>And yeah I’ve heard everyone asks to go see those rooms in Balch lol</p>
<p>haha cool… so overall recommended over other dorms? or will i be missing out on an essential college experience?</p>
<p>Well even if you end up not liking it there, it can’t be THAT bad. Pretty sure that won’t happen though, a lot of people in so many other dorms have said that there are so many people that just randomly talk to you and ask to come in and stuff, and like a few people have said, a lot of people just leave their doors open the first few months and get to know each other. </p>
<p>You can always switch to townhouses/collegetown a year later like you said in the first post, so there really isn’t a way to miss out on the essential college experience 
Just change things around if they don’t go your way, you’ll still have another 2 years to figure it all out. </p>
<p>Pretty sure you wouldn’t be missing out on any experience though, just be yourself and get to know the other students in Balch. Who knows though, you might end up having a small group of 3-5 really really close friends who you can maybe move out into collegetown with and share an apartment/townhouse, there’s a solution to your question on whether you should dorm ON CAMPUS first or in collegetown, you’ll get both done this way if it happens to be the case</p>
<p>Others will end up posting a bit more, so you could always wait a while longer and see what they see, but hopefully everything turns out fine!</p>
<p>thanks a lot micny123!</p>
<p>hmm, so do you think you’ll request it then? I think I might, but I still am hestitant, haha. I guess there isn’t much time to make a decision though…</p>
<p>switching out to townhouses wouldn’t make sense cuz they’re first year housing too. you couldn’t really do that unless you were being an RA.
you can only be in Balch one year too unfortunately (<em>gazes wistfully around her room</em>)</p>
<p>I honestly haven’t run into the least stigma living here. there’s ALL different sorts of girls around. most people I know didn’t request it-- I didn’t, although I’d now look back and recommend it to all. there’s no “essential college experience” imo, I’d MUCH rather be living comfortably in the present.</p>
<p>edit to say I don’t know if you can see it but there are mysterious numbers with arrows at the top of this post from my perspective…uh disregard them.</p>
<p>yeah i am still hesitant about all girls…but the dorm sounds way nicer…</p>
<p>i wanted to be in balch and was pretty sure i was going ot request it but i just visited cornell and now i want mews! just because i love the building overall, disregarding the actual rooms in balch (i saw some girls single in there…HUGE!) i just didnt like the building of balch too much. the lounges seemed cold and empty as did the entire dorm (i mean, we of course could find some girl with a single with her door open to ask to view her room, but it was just a colder dorm to me). too bad you cant request specific dorms with the exception of balch, because if i couldnt have mews or one of the other new ones, then i’d rather have balch than dickson or any other dorms. sigh.</p>
<p>I’m so mad at myself for not having gone to see Balch while I was at Cornell for DHW! And it’s weird because I was this close to being placed in there with my host, but then for some reason there was a host switch and I ended up in Dickson. I still couldv’e gone to see it after the regular residential tour was over, though… :(</p>
<p>I didn’t like Dickson all that much. I mean the room was fine (I stayed in my host’s single, and I thought it was a good size. She had a surprisingly big closet, too! IMO), but I didn’t like the long hallways too much, or the fact that the bathroom has to be shared with so many people (not much privacy). Maybe it’s because I was only there one weekend and hardly spent any time actually in the building, but when I was inside I felt like it was a bit impersonal because of its size. I don’t know… Plus I got lost for like 10 minutes looking for the staircase. lol</p>
<p>Oh and one more question. What are the chances that a girl who requests a double gets a room in Balch? I know it’s probably not too likely, but does it ever happen?</p>
<p>I talked to housing about my D’s request for a double in Balch. they said they will consider the request for Balch to be more important than the request for the double. So, if you put that they will give you a single in Balch before they will give you a double somewhere else if no more doubles are left in Balch.</p>
<p>But a single is more. Not sure what happens if you end up with a single and don’t want to or can’t pay the increased cost.</p>