<p>yea the new ucla dorms like rieber vista and hedrick summit are really spacious and nice, but they arent as social as the smaller, less tight res halls</p>
<p>but anyway... nothing beats ucla food</p>
<p>DRab - the on-campus food at Cal isn't too amazing, but I find that Clark Kerr beats the general DC meal at UCLA.</p>
<p>Also, if you go off campus for food, you enter a golden kingdom that's hard to beat anywhere.</p>
<p>Well, the food here is alright as a whole, and Clark Kerr can beat UCLA food, but sometimes it just doesn't, and then I walked a ways for a disappointment.</p>
<p>I was going to mention the off campus food that rocks. My friend said (when he visited) that, if he came here, he'd be fat because he would never stop eating.</p>
<p>yeah, you just gotta go to CKC on a good day, and not during what i like to call 'leftover week', when they repeat food from the weke before but pair them up differently. when they have theme nights, its darn good. </p>
<p>yeah. i could seriously eat off-campus berkeley food 24 hours a day until i exploded. </p>
<p>p.s. i like tuna melts at the GBC - yum!</p>
<p><3,</p>
<p>Izzie Bear</p>
<p>I've eaten so many delicious sandwich melts that it's rediculous. And smoothies. Basically, I'm not having trouble finding food.</p>
<p>I read an article a while back about Illinois Institute of Technology's new dorms. Apparently, they have full beds, and other features i dont remember.</p>
<p>Not that bad.</p>
<p>i must say fordham lincoln center too.. visited there.. its located near columbus circle, close to fifth avenue and central park. the buildings are next to the school. very clean and nice.</p>
<p>GW.
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<p>LOL @ this thread.</p>
<p>Princeton's rooming situation is, like lots of other schools, hit or miss. Junior slums look beautiful on the outside, but haven't been renovated for a while--big rooms, but subpar facilities. Upperclassmen housing, in general, however, is pretty nice (usually quads in the 600 sq. ft. range, doubles in the 300ish, singles around 150-200). The residential colleges are a bit more balanced: the two Gothic residential colleges have average sized rooms, but the entryway system (IMO) is worse than hallways. The former hotel has large rooms, but is far from the center of campus. The other two currently existing ones aren't amazing on the outside, but are fairly large on the inside. The residential college being built right now should be pretty excellent--there are a lot of large rooms, brand new facilities, hallways, etc...
It really does depend on a certain amount of luck, but I'd definitely put Princeton's housing above a lot of other schools'</p>
<p>Yeah, GATech dorms suck suck suckity suck suck suck. I went there on a tour when I was in HS.</p>
<p>Loyola Maryland dorms are very nice.</p>
<p>Definitely not Pitt dorms. They suck.</p>
<p>I haven't heard especially bad things about Georgia Tech (I'm going there next fall), but I certainly know which buildings to avoid. East campus is, for the most part, pretty bad. West campus, however, is supposed to be much nicer.</p>
<p>any opinions on American U's dorms???</p>
<p>Like others have said, Pepperdine's dorms are really nice. Each dorm has 6 suites, 4 rooms in a suite, the main lobby area of each dorm has a fireplace. About half the dorms have an ocean view from the front, and mine's also got a sand vollyball court and a BBQ grill.</p>
<p>I've actually heard (though I'm not positive if it's true or not) that Pepperdine's planning on building new freshman dorms. They would have a small kitchen area, a prayer room, probably some other stuff I can't remember.</p>
<p>According to Princeton Review rankings</p>
<p>Dorms like Palaces
1 Smith College<br>
2 Bryn Mawr College<br>
3 Loyola College in Maryland<br>
4 Pepperdine University<br>
5 Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering<br>
6 Pomona College<br>
7 Scripps College<br>
8 Agnes Scott College<br>
9 Mount Holyoke College<br>
10 Wellesley College<br>
11 Claremont McKenna College<br>
12 Sweet Briar College<br>
13 Webb Institute<br>
14 Whitman College<br>
15 Washington University in St. Louis<br>
16 Bennington College<br>
17 Bowdoin College<br>
18 Williams College<br>
19 New College of Florida<br>
20 The George Washington University </p>
<p>Dorms like Dungeons haha</p>
<p>1 United States Coast Guard Academy<br>
2 United States Merchant Marine Academy<br>
3 University of Hawaii at Manoa<br>
4 Hampton University<br>
5 University of Louisiana at Lafayette<br>
6 State University of New York at Albany<br>
7 University of Florida<br>
8 University of Idaho<br>
9 State University of New York--Purchase College<br>
10 University of Washington<br>
11 The University of South Dakota<br>
12 University of Missouri-Rolla<br>
13 Illinois Institute of Technology<br>
14 Louisiana State University<br>
15 University of Miami<br>
16 State University of New York--Stony Brook University<br>
17 Rider University<br>
18 State University of New York--University at Buffalo<br>
19 University of Georgia<br>
20 University of Rhode Island </p>
<p>You can see it yourself at <a href="http://www.princetonreview.com/college/research/rankings/rankingDetails.asp?categoryID=6&topicID=47%5B/url%5D">http://www.princetonreview.com/college/research/rankings/rankingDetails.asp?categoryID=6&topicID=47</a> (you need an account btw)</p>
<p>amherst's new buildings are very nice
and i have a friend at fordham lincoln center- AMAZING! big apartment AND its in manhattan.</p>
<p>I can vouch for Bennington's dorms, no cinder blocks here! We live in big old houses, hardwood floors, a fireplace in every common room. There are newer dorms too, with more traditional dorm rooms, they also have fireplaces, a kitchen but are more modern in style. Every house has a distinct personality and it is fun to either find your niche or move around and have different experiences.</p>