<p>what is the best in terms of availability to meet friends, loud parties, places to hang out, etc?</p>
<p>Technically a suite (5+ people) is the best place to do that, but quads (depending on their size) can be prime social spaces as well. Since Mathey and Rocky are mostly quads, of course those will be the party areas (although Mathey regained a newly renovated Hamilton Hall this year, which has larger suites and a slew of frats and athletes in it). Any room with a common room is a good place to hang out and any place with a hallway is a good place to meet friends.</p>
<p>philntex, you seem very knowledgable about housing - DD is assigned 1942 in Butler, room 325 with 5 other roommates. Is this a suite? We're having difficulty accessing the floor plans on-line, and can only access what seems to be the computer connection map, but it looks like there is only one room number 325 and then several rooms across the hall that are not numbered. Would this be a suite?</p>
<p>OhMother: Yeah, it's a suite. It looks like 4 singles and a double.</p>
<p>P.S. I'm in 1942 Hall also. 336, which is a suite of 7, and directly above your daughter's suite. Weird, eh?</p>
<p>Nice to meet you, billyum. Thanks for the info. Looks like DD lives the closest to Princeton of all her roommates, and we're still 3.5 hours away. She's a BSE, so was more interested in proximity to the engineering quad than appearance.</p>
<p>Nice to meet you too. One of my suitemates lives in NJ, while one is from Korea. I live ~3 hours away from Princeton. It'll be really interesting to live in a suite like this.</p>
<p>Do you think that the largest room is a common room? My understanding is that the students will need to furnish this, is that yours as well?</p>
<p>the butler suites, other than those in walker, (and the 5 and 6 people suites in 1939, and the 7 person suite in gauss) are basically glorified hallways. That means that there are a bunch of rooms off of a hallway, which has a door to the outside hallway. Some people decide to turn one of the rooms, usually the largest room) into a common room, but that means that rooms that should be singles have to be made into doubles. </p>
<p>if you have a common room, then it is up to the students to furnish it, however usually decisions are made after getting to princeton, especially for freshman because its important to see how the room actually lays out in a situation like that</p>
<p>I had a few friends who lived in a suite together in 1942, and they really made it cute. They kept their bedroom doors open all the time, decorated their hallway and their bathroom, and were really close. It's easy to just go into your bedroom, keep the door shut, and be antisocial, so people who are in Butler quad suites (including Bloomberg) have to make an effort to make a community atmosphere out of their suite versus the suites in Wilson which all have common rooms.</p>
<p>In Bloomberg the entire hallway becomes sort of like a co-ed suite...Anyone who draws as a freshman into Butler should thank their lucky tokens of whatever sort.</p>