<p>Anyone else having trouble deciding? I don't want to be surrounded by drugs/alcohol all the time, but I like to party once in a while. What have you guys chosen?</p>
<p>I went with substance free. i don't think I'm the boring nerdy type but I'm not the type to party. If you do party once in awhile I don't think it's a big deal at all- as long as it doesn't happen in the dorm I don't think anyone cares. Substance free won't be totally substance free though, as long as it's reasonable you'l be fine.</p>
<p>I did the same. I've heard a lot more about E.Wheelock kids being study-oriented and a little alienated from the rest of the freshman class than I have about Substance-Free kids being that way. It should be fun!</p>
<p>Oh boy...I put substance-free and I applied to Wheelock...darn... Oh well, if I'm in Wheelock I guess I'll have to try to break the mold! (I like to study but I refuse to be a "study-holic"! All hail the fun life of college!) ^_^</p>
<p>Don't worry about being in EW as everything depends on you as a person and the dynamics of the people on your floor (this is essentially true no matter where you live). If you have a floor where everyone gets a long and are friendly with one another there will always be stuff to do. When D lived there, she had friends who were 7's who also lived there. She got to meet a large cross-section of people in WE and had a large group of friends outside of the EW cluster. </p>
<p>I don't think they are alienated except for the fact that they do not live near any of the other housing ;they are across, from the gym, so no one is really stopping in on your way to some where else. D thought it was the best of both worlds as she went out and hung out with her friends, then came back to a peaceful dorm.</p>
<p>Even if you live in the river dorm, while it is far away from everything, you have channing-cox, maxwell (which are senior housing along with some afinity housing and altleast one frat) along with the tree houses (so there are plenty of people down in the cluster).</p>
<p>I did sub free my freshman year, and it was great. My friends and I still went out to frats sometimes, but the kids there didn't need to be drinking to be having fun. You get all the benefits of being able to go to the parties, without having drunk people vomitting in your hallways :)</p>
<p>I was placed in sub free my freshman year w/o requesting it, and it was a pretty bad experience. The other kids on my floor really looked down upon myself and the other girl on the floor who liked to go out and by the end of the year we didn't really talk to each other. My roommate even tried to get me kicked out of our room based on my alcohol use - i.e., not staying in by myself to watch a movie on Friday nights. Just something to think about - sub free could be great, depending on the other people in your floor, but it didn't work out for me.</p>
<p>Yeah, I think it really is a shot in the dark, like gracilisae said. Sometimes substance-free can be awful, if you really have a random group of people with mixed opinions. On the other hand, I barely even knew which Choates dorms were substance-free and which weren't: my friends from every Choate dorm liked to party!</p>
<p>I lived in Sub-Free my first year and I loved it, I was in the Choates (Cohen). People write off subfree as quiet and anti-social....well my floor or floor above me was not quiet...actually people went out regularly. I'm not trying to put anybody out there but people did drink and occasionally come back to dorm drunk or buzzed....it got rather loud on some occasions. On my floor we had a great dynamic all my floormates were pretty cool, social, people. My friends and I went out virtually every weekend and had a good time...please dont knock sub-free till u try it</p>