<p>I'm a future member of the Vassar's class of 2016 and I have a quick question about wellness/quiet housing.
Filling out my housing questionnaire, I'm not sure what to put as my level of interest for either. I want to go to parties during college but at the same time, I don't want partying to be the defining aspect of my college experience. I'm being randomly matched with a roommate, so I worry that in a regular hall, my roommate could be too into partying, and that in a wellness/quiet hall, my roommate could be too conservative.
Do any current/past students have advice on living in a wellness/quiet hall? Do people living there still go to parties? Thanks.</p>
<p>If I were you I would ask to be placed in a quiet hall, not a wellness hall.</p>
<p>Thanks for the input Crystal. I’m kind of ignorant about it but they seemed almost interchangeable since parties aren’t allowed in quiet housing anyway.</p>
<p>If you want to party but don’t want to deal with people messing up your common spaces/bathrooms, I would go with wellness. I lived on wellness last year and will do so again next year. Almost all of my friends live on wellness and, believe me, people party, people drink, but it will not be tolerated on the floor/hall. Wellness isn’t necessarily quiet, but I’ve never had trouble sleeping. It’ll be louder in Jewett than other dorms because there are common rooms and people like to hang out in them, whereas in other dorms most socialization will go on in the rooms so there’s less noise in their wellness, I hear.</p>
<p>But don’t request wellness if you want to party in your room. If you want to go out to party, that’s one thing, but the wellness culture is not chill with people boozing it up (loudly) in their rooms. Your roommate will probably be pretty ‘conservative,’ as you put it, but not necessarily. Mine liked to party way more than I did.</p>
<p>Do not request quiet. From what I know, it’s a tiny hall in Raymond, one of the most rundown dorms on campus, and the bathrooms are utterly terrifying. Wellness gives you more options for dorms, and you’re more likely to be put in a nicer dorm because the recently renovated dorms have more wellness, in general.</p>
<p>Oh, and they definitely aren’t interchangeable. In quiet you won’t get kicked out of your housing for having substances, while in wellness your housing can and will be jeopardized. I’ve never met anyone who lives on quiet (since it’s only, like, twelve rooms or something). They make it sound like quiet is a big thing; it isn’t. Wellness will give you far more social options with people who share your housing interests, at least. Some people are weird about wellness people, but there are always plenty of wellness people and chill, non-wellness people around. For quiet, it’s literally just your hall, in one dorm, as opposed to having wellness people in most dorms.</p>
<p>Thank you so much, that’s actually really helpful! It’s nice to have advice from someone who has lived on wellness. I’ll definitely put ‘very’ interested in wellness and knock my interest for quiet down. The random roommate process is a little scary, so overall I’m just hoping for the best…</p>