<p>Pross conss of South Hall?</p>
<p>Pros: one of the newest dorms, very clean, white walls, Private Lockable Bathrooms, close to Davis, elevator you can use to move in...if you play tennis, there are courts next door, right by music/drama/chem buildings
Cons: the biggest dorm, the rooms are long and narrow (which some people liken to living in a shoebox), you have to walk up the hill to get to the quad</p>
<p>I personally loved living in South, and lived there for two years. I think you'll like it, especially if you try to meet people who live around you.</p>
<p>Big pro: lockable bathrooms - enough said :)</p>
<p>Cons: The color coordination is very poor with the walls and halls. Honestly, purple/green/red don't mix well unless the people designing the dorm were going after a Candyland effect.</p>
<p>true, snuffles, the 1st floor bright-red doors could be a little glaring and/or psychosis-inducing. But I personally didn't mind the dark purple and dark green on the third floor where I lived ;-).</p>
<p>thank you, i heard the rooms were long and narrow but i figure ill have to get used to that how are the closests? and is it far from everything?</p>
<p>haha, im in South too....first floor.</p>
<p>Red doors? heck yes!</p>
<p>and this may be a very stupid question, but do people generally only use the bathroom closest to them? for example, im at the end of the hallway, and the bathroom is in between my dorm and the one next door. would it probably be just us 4 using that bathroom, or would anyone?</p>
<p>I can't imagine someone walking further than they need to, but if someone's closest one is occupied, of course they'll keep walking.</p>
<p>I lived in tilton which also has single bathrooms and I only showered in the ones on the other end of the hall once all year, because the set on my side were all being used.</p>
<p>It's everyones bathroom, but most other people won't have reason to use it.</p>
<p>On the subject of bathrooms:</p>
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<li>If you're at the very end of the hall, like room 101 or 195 or whatever, your bathroom MAY get less traffic than others. I know the bathroom near 101 is actually enormous b/c it's handicap-accessible.</li>
<li>Some people in South don't care where they shower, and will just walk into the closest one near them that's not occupied. Some people are particular about water pressure (I know I am!) and would wait until the shower across from 384 (haha, next door to Dan the RA's old room!) would be open. Other kids like the bathroom that's nearest them and actually keep all their shower and toiletry things in the bathroom on the shelf. But this can get tricky, b/c if someone else goes into your shower, you can't get to your things easily.</li>
<li>When you just need to pee really fast, or grab some toilet paper, you generally go to the closest bathroom. If that's occupied, you just walk to the next one.</li>
<li>There have been a few instances where a ridiculous amount of bathrooms were filled. This occurred on the first morning of classes, when everyone ACTUALLY WOKE UP TO GO TO CLASS and therefore were showering before that. I lived in 376 in this year and had to go down to 395, all the bathrooms being filled, then walked back ALL the way past my OLD room, 355, past the elevator, and the FIRST free bathroom was by 339. I believe that means that all ten bathrooms on that side of South were taken. However, I didn't have this problem again because people stopped waking up for early classes hahaha.</li>
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<p>So the point is, you can treat that bathroom like it's yours if you want to, by putting your toiletries in there. But that won't stop someone from coming in and using it, at which point your stuff is inaccessible. You might dislike the water pressure in the shower and opt to shower elsewhere. My freshman year, we figured out pretty quickly which ones were the Power Showers, the Dribblers and the Painful Showers. (Some boys likened the Painful Showers to "getting their nipples bored out", LOL.) But basically the bathrooms aren't a big deal and you can use any one. I mean, I would sometimes walk into South and really have to go, and just use the closest one on the first or second floor, even though I lived on the 3rd floor on the other side of the building. It's not really a big deal, esp. since the bathrooms are no longer designated by gender. (For any girls reading this: Half the bathrooms used to be for girls, but then they made them unisex, which is why only half the bathrooms in South have tampon boxes in the stalls. For boys: Feel free to join the facebook group, "I always hit my elbow on the *****ing tampon box". hee hee.)</p>
<p>Everyone says they love the individual lockable bathrooms at South. It's nice to have a little privacy. I noticed in the past that a lot of the bathrooms would be out of commission by the end of the weekend due to heavy partying. Kind of gross. I think the singles are ridiculously tiny, they are smaller than Paris Hilton's jail cell. I believe they are the smallest singles on campus. They do have large closet areas though. One strange negative about some of the rooms at South is that when it gets windy, some of the windows make loud howling noises. I'm not sure why exactly, whether the windows aren't caulked well or there is some sort of wind tunnel effect. I believe this only happens with the rooms on the front of the building.</p>
<p>haha wait, what's the "front" of the building? It only happened to me when I lived in 376, in which the windows face Powderhouse.</p>
<p>In my experience, I wouldn't say "a lot of" the bathrooms would be "out of commission" because of partying. People who are throwing up drunk, more often than not, know how to aim for the toilet bowl, or their sober friends help them out. I've had more experience with some kid washing out his Kraft Mac n' Cheese in the sink, leaving orange residue everywhere, or kids coming back from mudsliding down the hill making the floor/shower muddy once in a while.</p>
<p>I don't think South are the smallest singles, actually. I was told Wren were the smallest. I think because the Wren singles actually used to be closets. But I could be wrong on that, I've never seen a Wren single.</p>
<p>As I said, I love South. One thing I remember though is that the door didn't do a good job blocking out some noise - but maybe it was just my door. We could hear the boys in 372 blast their bass almost all the time, and at night if I wanted to sleep and kids were out in the lounge, I could hear their whole conversation. This can be averted by just asking them to be quieter, though.</p>
<p>I define the front of the building as the side where the front door is. Sounds like a lot of windows have a problem with noise.</p>
<p>The singles at Wren were never closets. How do these rumours get started?
Yes, they're small. They probably have the room dimensions on Res Life. I think I checked that a couple of years ago and found out that South's rooms were the smallest.</p>
<p>Personally, I like the old dorms. They usually have the biggest rooms and some charm to them. I'm not a big fan of cinderblocks. I like the brick in Wren though.</p>
<p>I lived in both a single in South and a single in Wren. The singles in South are a good deal bigger. Actually, I wouldn't even call the singles in South small. They certainly aren't as palatial as the ones in Hill, but there's plenty of room for bed, desk, fridge, storage, etc. </p>
<p>As a former resident of Wren, I've been particularly interested in all the work that's been going on over the summer in there. I'm most curious to see the end results.</p>
<p>Being downhill, South provides the most exercise for students going up hill to class, etc. :)</p>
<p>ok, as for furnishings in the room, does anyone know if there is a bureau or drawers for clothes of any sort, or just a closet?</p>
<p>^^^^both; and a desk; beds can be lofted for storage space underneath.</p>