<p>Does anyone have any pros and cons or reasons I should avoid certain dorms. I'm not really the party type, so I was wondering which one of the four I should definitely avoid. Also, if anyone has any other opinions on dorms please feel free to name them. </p>
<p>The rooms in Beaty are really, really small. Tiny kitchen area with a bath and then two rooms where you really need to bunk the beds to have any room at all to move around. If you don’t bunk the beds and put them side by side - you have about 20 inches between them - just enough to put a small night stand and lamp. That’s it. A little too cozy.</p>
<p>I currently live in Springs, but have visited Beaty East, Jennings, Broward, Yulee, Rawlings, Tolbert, Simpson, Murphree, Fletcher, Thomas, & Lakeside. Based on personal experience, I would say Beaty is the best. Nice commons (with a marketplace), pretty social environment, and I prefer the apartment style dorms since no one’s cooking gone wrong stinks up the halls, and you only share the bathroom with 3 other people, rather than 30 You do need to bunk the beds to get enough space in the bedrooms though. The living room/kitchen is a decent size for a dorm. </p>
<p>Dorms to avoid:
-Thomas & Buckman - very old, no AC for now (central AC installation will be complete by Fall 2015), when I was told this, my jaw dropped. The lack of AC & age of the dorms keep rental rates cheap, but still not worth it. Well located though.
-Springs: commons sucks, barely any social environment, bad location (much better than Lakeside though),
-Lakeside: close to Southwest Rec Center, INSANELY far from the Hub/Turlington (where students are mostly concentrated in the daytime since most classes/libraries are in that area), only 1 bus route (pretty well timed, though) for most of the day</p>
<p>I’d say everything else is fine. Just narrow them down by personal preference. I only had a choice between Thomas & Springs (late sign up date) and I chose Springs, because even though it had a terrible location, minimal social environment, and crappy commons, it did have central AC, walk-in closets, connected bathrooms between 2 rooms (shared by 4 people), & a bus stop with multiple routes passing by from either side of the road during the day.</p>
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<li>There is no such thing as a “party dorm”, if your drinking in your dorm you are doing it wrong. 2. Yes you will meet some people dependent on where you live, but the vast majority will be either from going out, school clubs, or greek life. 3. All dorms are the same, each one is close to something beneficial. i.e. lakeside=southwest, murphree=midtown, old dorms=classes. Hope this helps</li>
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