<p>If i visited tomorrow will I be able to see some dorms in different housing buildings?</p>
<p>Also, what were your impressions of the college in terms of environment/looks/dorms?</p>
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<p>The dorm rooms didn't used to be on the tour, supposedly because every one was in use and they couldn't look in one of those. Another reason I was given was that since they vary, there is no point in seeing any individual room. But that was two years ago. Maybe it is different now.</p>
<p>Also, check out the food areas when you go. They are not your traditional cafeterias but rather like a series of small fast food court areas. Unless things have changed, the one small dining room is only open to students intermittantly.</p>
<p>The tour used to be mostly an outdoor tour with some academic building interiors.</p>
<p>We just visited CMU last month and the dorm rooms were not on the tour. Our guides said that we should go online and there are full video tours of all the different types of rooms. They described what is available, and it sounded like there were many options.</p>
<p>Oh, forgot to say that the campus looked great and DD loved it. The music building is especially nice, painted ceilings and floorplans of different great buildings set into the marble of the floors. Beautiful!</p>
<p>Thanks for the info!</p>
<p>The April visiting students schedule did include a tour where we saw a room in New House and got a general description of the other dorms. I loved that building too wackymother. I have a friend who thinks the campus is ugly, but I really liked it.</p>
<p>Normally I would say that if you really wanted to see some rooms, you could hang around a dorm and probably find someone who would show you their room, but most of the students are gone for the summer now. If you search the forum, there's a thread I started awhile ago that has pictures I took of my Morewood E-Tower room. I'll try to find it and bump it.</p>
<p>And it is true that rooms vary quite a bit within buildings, particularly in Morewood Gardens (not E-Tower) and Mudge A-Tower, but these areas don't have many freshmen. Between buildings, there can be a pretty big difference.</p>
<p>Mathmom, that's funny, we were there in April and they skipped right over the dorms. </p>
<p>Were you there for accepted students week? That's the time we were there and the place was crawling with HS seniors coming to take one last look. But we were on a tour with other HS juniors.</p>
<p>anyone want to give me an insight into which dorms may be more preferable than others for certain reasons?</p>
<p>From what i've read so far New house and morewood(i dont know if it is tower or just normal) are nice?</p>
<p>Sure. Freshman year is a little limited on choice. Probably the best dorms on campus ever are West Wing and Resnik, but usually freshmen don't live there (except on those occasions where there weren't enough freshmen housing to go around... then the late ones got lucky).</p>
<p>I lived in Donner my first year and yes, it gets disgusting. Particularly the bathrooms and the shared kitchen in the basement. Although they renovated the bathrooms recently and the one time I walked in, it's a much better improvement. I liked Donner, though, because it is primarily a Freshmen dorm and with Freshmen orientation n stuff, it's a great place to start out because pretty much everyone was open-door with room-visiting (that was my experience, anyways. It could be different each year). It also offers the biggest dorm rooms and 2 people can live in a double quite comfortably. Just be careful you don't get stuck in the basement.</p>
<p>But probably the biggest recommendation for Freshmen dorming is New House. It's the newest on campus and it offers A/C... which you'll want during that first and last month of the school year.</p>
<p>Morewood is pretty good, although I can't say what's good or bad about it at the moment. They're a happy medium, I think.</p>
<p>There was a dorm tour the Monday after the big April sleeping bag weekend as part of the accepted students activities. I think they had dorm tours for seniors pretty regularly all that month. Honestly though, I think my son is right, with a few exceptions if you've seen one dorm room you've seen them all.</p>
<p>Mathmom,
Did your S do SBW during senior year? If so, did he find it helpful? He's done the tour and talked to SCS folks, but was wondering if it made sense to go back so he can check out the dorms and social end of things.</p>
<p>Mathson did sleeping bag weekend in April because we'd never actually visited CMU earlier. He bunked with some drama students (so not him!) and a SCS student who apparently didn't socialize much because he had homework. There were at least three other admitted students visiting. They played video games till the wee hours. He had a great time. But, because it was the weekend before Carnival, lots of kids weren't doing the usual social activities, they were working on Carnival stuff. </p>
<p>CMU also didn't have a presentation of clubs the way all the other schools we visited for admitted students days did. (Maybe because they kind of stretch visiting days over all of April?) I thought it was the one shortcoming of that particular sleeping bag weekend, which is aimed at enticing admitted students.</p>
<p>For my son I think it was more helpful that there were two different SCS presentations - tour of buildings on Monday and a slide show question and answer session on Sunday. They had five students talking on Sunday - I thought they gave a good overview of the department from the student point of view and there were two more (different) kids for the tour on Monday.</p>