San Rafael singles/doubles hall information?

Colleges & Universities A-Z University of California - Santa Barbara
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<p>Hey everyone,</p>

<p>I just got my housing assignment in the mail and I got a room in one of those singles/doubles hall strips in the clusters. I was wondering if anyone's lived/been there before and tell me how it is? Is it a co-ed hall or single gender? I heard there's a door that separates that hall from the other parts of the cluster.. can only residents in that hall open the door (as in it is under lock and key) or is that door open to anyone? What was the experience like?</p>

<p>Thanks!</p>

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<p>I lived in a single in one of the clusters. The door to your hallway can only be opened by the people living in the singles (and two doubles at the ends of the hallway). All the people in your hallway will be the same sex. Since the hallways are sort of cut off from the rest of the cluster, RAs don’t seem to supervise the area that closely, though they do make their nightly rounds - in my experience, an odd result of that was at least one one of my neighbors seemed to feel somewhat secure in basically having a live-in girlfriend (though it’d be really easy to have any guest there for a long time). Being the easily surprised person that I am, I think I was perpetually surprised to see her in the bathroom everyday, but whatever.</p>

<p>One plus is that the singles are bigger than the ones in the tower. On the other hand, walls in San Raf always seemed to be a little thin to me - I recall hearing my neighbor’s Skype conversations nightly for the entire year. Aside from that, a neighbor who had a tendency to play obnoxiously loud Indian music, and another neighbor from somewhere else in the cluster who played her flute poorly, loudly, and frequently, it was fairly quiet, at least compared to a freshman dorm.</p>

<p>And if it’s not obvious already, I had a few nits to pick with dorm life. As far as the social experience, I can’t really comment on the singles halls in particular, as I already knew people elsewhere in San Raf and the campus at large, and mostly just treated my room as a place to work and sleep.</p>

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<p>Thanks flush! Those are all I wanted to hear… well, except the thin walls part, but hopefully my neighbors will be quieter than yours :P</p>

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<p>I had a floormate who lived in those rooms and he always complained about one resident who smoked weed a lot. He said you could smell it all the time which makes sense because you are enclosed with each other.</p>

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<p>if your in staying in a single in san rafael, how is the layout for the bathroom? r u sharing a bathroom with the rest of the floor?</p>

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<p>Hall layout [url=&lt;a href=“http://www.housing.ucsb.edu/hchoices/hchoices-images/pdfs/DisMap-RH,S.Raf.4_5_02k.pdf]link:[/url”&gt;http://www.housing.ucsb.edu/hchoices/hchoices-images/pdfs/DisMap-RH,S.Raf.4_5_02k.pdf]link:[/url</a>]</p>

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<p>For those halls that have 5 singles and 2 doubles, it is a single gender hall, and you share a bathroom with just that hall.</p>

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<p>anyone know how the suites in the ocean cluster are?</p>

<p>Do they have kitchens and laundry machines in the suites?</p>