<p>besides the honors dorms, what is a good dorm that will have students that are more focused on school rather than partying? i refuse to live in jester.
currently my choices are honors (but i didn’t get in), kinsolving, littlefield, brackenridge, and moore-hill. i wish i could live in duren and san jac but it’s out of the budget.</p>
<p>I’ve heard that Prather is pretty quiet. Probably good for focusing on school and studying…</p>
<p>is jester party oriented and bad for studying?</p>
<p>^ That’s what the general consensus is lol. There’s always the library.</p>
<p>@ smartone92
Did you get a notification saying no for honors housing, or did you just not get into an honors program?</p>
<p>how do you know you didnt get honors housing??</p>
<p>Smartone probably means that he/she applied for an honors program and didn’t get accepted.</p>
<p>Jester is not party central! I actually got a lot more studying in jester than in kinsolving. jester has 3 study rooms per floor (some may be occupied due to supplemental housing, but you’ll probably have at least 1). if your floor’s room is occupied, you can go to any other floor’s study lounges. unlike kinsolving, jester’s study rooms have doors so they’re much quieter.</p>
<p>smartone92, there is no specified dorm that does more studying than others. If you want to be close to a library, those around the PCL would be perfect. why is jester out of the question?</p>
<p>^^ what is PCL?</p>
<p>^ PCL is the library located right across Jester…</p>
<p>and Jester is not bad at all…I actually enjoyed living there and will dorm there next year again…Theres food right downstairs, library next door, and located in a great place…Noise wasn’t too bad of a problem for me…not sure about other floors…</p>
<p>Jester Center is a bit noisy at night due to Wendy’s being open really late and other stuff but Jester East/West are alright in terms of noise. I lived in Jester East during orientation my freshman year and it was alright- the rooms are pretty cramped and it’s just your typical college dorm (except it’s for over 2000 kids…). I lived in Simkins and it was pretty quiet (actually too quiet). Theirs some controversy over the name of Simkins (ex-KKK member but a UT Law Professor) but other than that its a pretty small/tight-knit community secluded from the main corridor of UT. Theirs plenty of negatives that come with the quietness of Simkins- it’s really far from food places (so you tend to call delivery like Jimmy Johns, etc. more often) and it’s far from the library. The only closest bus stop is on Speedway and San Jacinto which is really close</p>
<p>Hmm… I’m choosing Jacinto, Prather, Moore-hill, and Roberts. Are they quite quiet? 'Cause they are not far from Jester… How is the cleanliness of the toilets?</p>
<p>Another question: Is there any library or food spots near Duren?</p>
<p>^ Kinsolving is across the street from Duren. It has all-you-can-eat dining and a small convenience store that takes Dine-In-Dollars (Kins Market). The closest library to Duren is the physics/math/astronomy library on the first floor of RLM. However, PCL, the main library, is all the way across campus.</p>
<p>JESTER ISN’T LOUD!!!
I can’t believe Jester has so many negative opinions associated with it. Honestly, the dorms are relatively the same except for size and location. Each cannot be classified as “loud” or “good to study in” or whatever other category you want them to fit.
Kinsolving is convenient for food, but not for libraries. If you’re going to live in kins/duren, you might want to invest in a bike. It makes everything easier! If you’re social, you may want to live near jester since so many people live around there. As a freshman, most of your friends will live in or around jester. When you go home at night, it’s much easier if you live close by so you don’t have to walk 20 minutes back to kinsolving or the dorms over on that side of campus.
And all of the dorms are cleaned by janitors, so no one dorm is cleaner than another. They clean every day.</p>
<p>Most people I’ve talked to who have actually LIVED in Jester say they like it.</p>
<p>Remember that if you’re in engineering, Duren, Whitis Court, or Kinsolving (others, too, but these are the ones I know the names of) are very convenient. As an engineering student, I had very few classes on the Jester side of campus.</p>
<p>I beg to differ MaineLonghorn. Duren, Jester, San Jac, Jester, Prather are WAY far from the Engineering quad. Most of your classes will be (if your an Engineer) in the Engineering Quad (ECJ, RLM, CPE, etc.) and all those dorms you mentioned are at least a 10 -12 minute walk away.</p>
<p>I just know that I lived in SRD, and it was closer from there to ECJ than from Jester to ECJ. Also, my son will be in biomedical engineering, which is practically around the corner from Kinsolving and Whitis Court.</p>
<p>MTA: I just looked at a campus map, and Jester is obviously farther from RLM than Whitis Court or Duren.</p>
<p>Yeah but your son is a male (hopefully…) and therefore can’t live in Kinsolving</p>