<p>Wow. Thanks for all the great info. It's difficult to get beyond the stereotypes and stuff.</p>
<p>anyone got arrested for doing those stuff?</p>
<p>No... well... our floor is really outgoing and wild. Half our floor has gotten warnings about drinking and 25% have gotten community service and court dates.</p>
<p>However: CMU is very lenient about drinking. As long as you're not a total dumbass, you won't get caught. Also if you do get caught, they just warn you the first few times and after that its a meeting with the RA/house advisor and some community hours.</p>
<p>Hey acceptedtocollegealready what is ur major? I'm just wondering because I know the workload is tough for engineers, so do they get out as often as other majors?</p>
<p>I'm an ECE major. I'm in a frat and I still have time to hang around and do nothing.</p>
<p>^^ Very true. I'm in Tepper but I take Computer Science courses because I plan to do computational finance. The CS courses are pretty time consuming but nothing is "hard" and its all relative. I always have time to party on weekends and hang out during weekdays.</p>
<p>I am just curious do people in certain dorms party more than others? If I get in, where would I want to live so that I could have as much fun as possible?</p>
<p>that is a very good question. i need the answer to that one as well. I dont wanna be surrounded by antisocials</p>
<p>New House (floor 5) is consistently the best. Why? It's 80% HSS and SHS which are the non-engineering non-CS people that are actually normal.</p>
<p>If there was an all business dorm, I'd bet that'd be the wildest and craziest group. However, ANY big dorm is very social such as Morewood/New House/Donner.</p>
<p>Edit: Like I said, anti-social people are the minority here, not the majority. Even with a very nerdy floor (New house 3), people are ALL social except for like 2 people and the nerdy ppl play xbox (but at least they're social) and the rest go out and party.</p>
<p>nice--top floor. hows the view?
it looks packed, though. do you get AC?</p>
<p>Yes New House gets AC. The view is actually quite amazing. My roommate and I moved our beds on top of one another (they are stackable or separable) and I can see outside my window into the city streets and lights when I sleep.</p>
<p>It is a very good view and even better when I'm in my warm cozy bed looking out at the snow and that lighted tower and the gothic cathedral building.</p>
<p>I live on the right side of the floor though, if you live on the left side you see out into the street of the campus where you can see students walking and stuff. You don't get to see the city's bulidings but you can see students walking around.</p>
<p>The main lounge has a wonderful view and window that lets you basically see ALL throughout the city. The ENTIRE front of the wall of the lounge is a window and you can see everything (feels like you are in one of those fancy restaurants with all windows as walls and you're looking down).</p>
<p>The best view is definitely on the "incline" and going up the hills of Pittsburgh and the fancy restaurants there. I think they are free on certain days (not sure which) if you show your CMU ID and let you go up there. </p>
<p>The rooms are pretty small at New House but I never notice it. You won't be spending all your time in your dorm anyways. I must spend most of the time in the lounge talking and socializing with other friends. In fact right now, I'm in the lounge with two other friends (also on laptops) while watching Mr. Show on a Xbox 360. </p>
<p>The rooms have more than enough space for what you need to do (such as study) and once my roommate and I bunked our beds, we have space to put in a loveseat or a small couch or just leave the center floor open (for people to come in and chill and even crunk dance :)).</p>
<p>Anyways, most of the times I'm at class, at the library, eating on campus, doing an activity, exploring the city, partying out at frats/upitt/parties, eating off campus, going shopping, hanging out in the main lounge, etc. </p>
<p>I even sleep in the lounge sometimes (very comfy sofas).</p>
<p>that's right, CMU has the most wired campus.
so you never lose connection?</p>
<p>Never. I'm on wireless right now. It's soo sexy. It even works OFF CAMPUS at nearby starbucks and subways and restaurants!!</p>
<p>You frequently see kids at starbucks working online wirelessly and it's very reliable (never had it cut out yet). It's also very safe and I never get people tracking me or anything. </p>
<p>The wired campus has really SAVED my ass last semester when frequently I had to wirelessly print 20-30 pages to a nearby printer and run to class (all in 3 minutes) when i was late for a class. </p>
<p>Not to mention the peer-to-peer file transfers allowing me to transfer 3gb full games and other files to my friends. CMU even gives you free files and applications to download that are very helpful.</p>
<p>Lastly, one of our COOLEST things is called esuds. You swipe your card in order to do your laundry and once you do, the machine will send you an email and notify you when your laundry is done. Also, you can check online to see how many washers and dryers is available and how many minutes are left on each one.</p>
<p>It is absolutely a time saver as I know exactly when to go down to wash/dry or to retrieve my clothes. </p>
<p>There are probably other technological innovations available on Carnegie Mellon that I am forgetting and just taking for granted. For example, I went over to some friend's colleges over fall break and I totally forgot they didn't have ways of checking laundry or stuff.</p>
<p>PS: Your card also opens doors to buildings after-hours. It is really awesome because if you are an undergraduate student, you can't get into certain buildings for grad students and vice versa. Your card basically contains everything about you (major, undergrad, etc.) and lets you into the buildings of which you need to (thus allowing people to go where they need to at 3am in the morning without being scared that some creepy graduate engineering kid is gonna be there using your business software).</p>
<p>question for you.
does cmu let you borrow/checkout laptops or do you "have to" buy one?</p>
<p>I hope they dont use the card to take attendance.</p>
<p>There usually is no attendance and no it doesn't let you borrow/checkout laptops though they have their own computer store with pretty big discounts on laptops and computers for students.</p>
<p>Some people buy their computers there but I'd rather buy a nice expensive computer by yourself. You'll thank yourself later. (I bought a 2k Sony Vaio).</p>
<p>Do a lot of people take their laptops to class at CMU?</p>
<p>if i did that in my school, i'd be the king of all geeks...</p>
<p>No one really needs laptops to class freshman year but if you are CS or other majors, you'll need them for later years or other classes.</p>
<p>I mean they are never required in class as CMU is very wired and provide you (in Comp courses) with amazing new IMac computers but sometimes I bring a laptop because I type faster than I write/take notes.</p>
<p>I usually just take my laptop everywhere with me so I can go on the internet while eating food or maybe taking it out to print to a local server a few hundred pages.</p>
<p>Wait... The only in-class computers for CS stuff are iMacs? What the hell?</p>
<p>I can understand only using PCs (sorta, even if it's ludicrous for the top CS program in the country), but a platform that only runs one OS natively and maybe BSD if you play with it?</p>
<p>I would think you'd need everything to get the feel for development under multiple environments...</p>