SLE or FroSoCo?

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Hey everyone! I’m currently trying to figure out where to live. I’m a big humanities person and I love the community of SLE, but I’m also someone who greatly prefers academic freedom, and I’m worried that the required courses will be too restrictive. I’m also considering FroSoCo, and I love the availability of activities/discussions/lectures without SLE’s strict academic requirements. I’ve also heard that the dorms are very nice. I know it’s a bit isolated from everywhere else, but I’m not too concerned about that unless it’s a major obstacle–I’m a pretty introverted person and infinitely prefer discussions and movie nights to partying, which is why I’m drawn to FroSoCo. I’ve just heard that most of the students are STEM oriented, and I’m just worried that I’ll be a lonely fuzzy amongst techies?

Any advice would be greatly appreciated! Thanks! :slight_smile:

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@calliemoon11 As one of those STEM people I just wanted to say that I think a lot of us enjoy talking about fuzzy things too :slight_smile:

Personally I love the humanities and considering majoring in philosophy in addition to computer science.

Unfortunately as a fellow 2019er I don’t know the answer to your actual question, but just wanted to chime in with that :smiley:

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I did SLE my freshman year. It’s great if you’re into the humanities. The required courses are not too restrictive. You’ll probably be taking SLE along with 1-2 other courses each quarter.

I think SLE offers a much better sense of community, because of the shared experience. AFAIK, students in FroSoCo don’t have to take the same classes.

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I’ve heard mixed things about SLE, I defintely know some people who dropped out (which isn’t a big deal at all). FroSoCo has a reputation for being much more isolated, introverted, not partying, so it would be good fit for you in that sense. I don’t think FroSoCo is necessarily STEM heavy or anything like that. Honestly where you live isn’t THAT big a deal. I’m pretty sure you would do fine in either place.

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@calliemoon11 We heard the same things @guccigirl mentions about FroSoCo today, from two different sources. FroSoCo does seem to offer, at least in theory, a closer living community, which is appealing. But they don’t have parties there—FroSoCo students have to go elsewhere for those (which isn’t a problem, though—it’s apparently easy to do). It sounds like a quieter living experience on the whole, as well as one that’s a bit removed geographically. As for techies vs. fuzzies, there’s supposedly a good mix of STEM and non-STEM students.