<p>Don't know anything about dorms or locations on campus. Direct admit to Kelley--like sports--Any suggestions? Are there area's on the campus that are known for certain things or locations that are bettern than others. Also, please include dorms that you DO NOT want.</p>
<p>For IU’s housing contract, you pick “neighborhoods” not specific dorms. If you search IU housing on here, some great threads show up that detail each neighborhood.</p>
<p>Thanks–I did a preliminary search and didn’t see anything that was newer than 2006. I assume that most things haven’t changed. I was hoping for some updated info. I’ll search again.</p>
<p>Here are some quick facts about the 3 dorm neighborhoods freshmen have to choose from… I don’t think things have really changed all that much since 2006, but this is probably the consensus as of right now: </p>
<p>Southeast: Lots of music majors, close to many classroom buildings, generally have a reputation as “quiet” dorms but that’s not all completely true; you can find social and fun people in these dorms too. </p>
<p>Central: Good location, generally well-balanced in terms of academics and partying, lots of living choices (4 dorms in this neighborhood and all of them are really different in terms of what they offer) </p>
<p>Northwest: Most requested dorms by freshmen, have a reputation for being really social/lots of partiers, very close to athletics facilities and business school but farther away from a lot of other classroom buildings and main parts of campus</p>
<p>IU is really trying to crack down on Northwest’s party reputation; this is a large reason why they are building apartments in Briscoe to attract more upperclassmen who don’t have the party-hard mentality of freshmen. 2 NW dorms still made DormSplash’s top party dorms list this year, so take that for what you will! </p>
<p>Where you live really does not matter; I think it actually more so depends on your floor than the rest of the building. There are crazy floors and quiet floors in every dorm. You can get a good experience in any of these neighborhoods.</p>
<p>Thanks–I did find some more info on the site, but some answers don’t directly answer what I was looking for. You summed up the area’s great—The NW seems like the place to be esp. with Kelley Business. I’d consider central–who mostly congregates there–is it kinda lame? I could be easiliy distracted in NW</p>
<p>^ Central is where the most “normal” people live. It’s basically the same type of people as NW but mellower. It still gets wild on the weekends.</p>
<p>Here is a link about dorms. </p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/indiana-university-bloomington/132653-info-dorms.html?highlight=neighborhoods[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/indiana-university-bloomington/132653-info-dorms.html?highlight=neighborhoods</a></p>
<p>IU dorms are out of control. Time for administration to help IU lose its party reputation. Briscoe was rated the most out of control dorm in America. Not exactly something to be proud of, and well within the power of the adults on the campus to change.</p>
<p>^ It’s honestly beyond the control of anyone. I live on the infamous 4th floor of Foster Harper (according to our RA, the wildest floor at IU this year) and even if the cops come or other RA’s have to come contain the chaos, it’s just gonna happen again the next weekend and the weekend after that. It’ll just be a new person at the hospital for alc poisoning or a new person getting arrested for public intox. College kids will be college kids and, frankly, IU will be IU.</p>
<p>I really think that the excessive amounts of partying in the dorms can in large part be attributed to the RAs, who are simply awful in Northwest. They’re unpleasant for the most part and terrible at enforcing rules. And then when they do try to get you into trouble for drinking, they either go too far with it or people don’t take them seriously because they’ve been drinking in the dorms all year anyway.</p>
<p>^ I think that’s true, especially in Foster. RA’s are crap.</p>
<p>Generally me and my bros on Harper 4 go to Harper 6 to drink/socialize with girls from Harper 6 and 7 (we’re not rowdy and we don’t get hammered) but the only RA that’s aware of this is the one on Harper 7 and she walks down to Harper 6 and Harper 3/4 all the time because our RA on Harper 4 is worthless and the one on Harper 3 is also an IUPD officer so he’s never around on the weekend nights. So it’s like there’re one or two RA’s in all of Harper tower who’re on top of things. </p>
<p>I’ve also heard that one of the RA’s in Foster Magee permits illegal substances.</p>
<p>I suppose one speck of “good” news is that they’re trying to scare us out of excessive partying. MY floor is ** indescribably ** wild and there was a day last semester when we were averaging 10 incident reports per weekend and the cops were showing up almost nightly and someone getting carried out on a stretcher was no longer a big deal… and someone at RPS noticed and the head of Foster had to issue a mandatory floor meeting and everyone on our floor had to go to a meeting that discussed our habits and how we can become more sane. Of course, it only got worse from there and the binge drinking/blasting music/ravaging sex/puking/passed out people just continued. But atleast they tried.</p>
<p>Honestely, just don’t pick Northwest. It’s just annoying and I really wish I lived in central as do a lot of people.</p>
<p>See, as an alumnus, I will tell you that this is very disturbing to hear. My daughter lived in Briscoe and described a similar environment. She came home to Indy and has an apartment because she hated the environment in Bloomington dorms. It’s one thing to have a “social” environment, where you have quiet dorms on week nights after midnight and ease up some on weekends, but IU dorms begin their downhill slide on Wednesday nights. It’s time for the university to decide that this is THEIR problem to fix…because it is.</p>
<p>^^^agree. I wonder if it is difficult to find RAs so they relax the standards that have to be enforced on the floors to make the job more attractive. </p>
<p>The situation that LoonLake describes boggles my mind. I just don’t get the point of drinking to such extremes. In some instances, it’s a matter of life and death.</p>
<p>debrockman, did you/your D file complaints with RPS? I think if enough people complained, maybe they would change things. It’s ridiculous to me to say ‘NW is NW’–every year there’s a new crop of people. If they kicked some people out and enforced the rules, the culture would change rapidly, I would think.</p>
<p>My D is in SE and loves it–hasn’t found it boring in the least.</p>
<p>She would have hated being in NW, but was initially considering it b/c the ‘word’ on the street was SE and Central were ‘boring’. Then an older friend suggested she steer clear if she wasn’t into drinking to excess. I guess if you want to get sloppy drunk and throw up in the halls, etc, SE is boring!</p>
<p>IUmom…We did complain and they moved my daughter and her roommate to another floor that was equally bad.</p>
<p>I think that there are areas on campus that are fine…we knew kids in the honors dorm who could CHOOSE when they needed quiet to sleep and to study…or they could go out and be social. Briscoe didn’t offer that choice. It was chaos most of the time. We went to visit our daughter one Sunday and arrived to a building with mirrors that had been covered in lipstick graffiti…trash was everywhere…evidence of kids having been sick in the halls. It just depresses me. Parents pay good money to have their kids put into an environment where it takes overwhelming maturity to succeed. I can’t put my finger on the problem. I only know that if I were one of the “responsible adults” on premises, it wouldn’t stay like it is.</p>
<p>debrockman, I hate to be that guy who has to be realistic, but you’re living in a dream world.</p>
<p>Three kids have died in the dorms so far this year. Seven kids in Briscoe filmed a full length porno that’s gone viral online. We have false alarms weekly, sometimes twice in the same night. Cops come every weekend. None of this stops anything and people just rage harder each weekend and once kids are drunk, they take no consideration of other’s desire for it to be quiet. It’s ** college in the 21st century. **</p>
<p>IU’s a top-ranking party school and it’s the easiest school in the Big Ten to get into, so this is completely inevitable. As long as students know upperclassmen who can buy them alcohol, this **** is gonna go down. I don’t like it either but it’s something that just has to be dealt with.</p>
<p>But, this isn’t a campus-wide thing. With the exception of Most of NW and a few floors in Central (particularily wright and teter), this doesn’t happen in the other dorms. Usually, atleast in SE, kids are always at the video store in the dorm and they hang out and watch movies/play games all night. If you walk past Teter on a weekend night, you can see through the windows into their floor lounges and they’re always playing cards or board games in there. I see sober peope just sitting around and talking on the weekends all the time. I work in the HPER, and every Friday and Saturday night every basketball court is full and it’s mostly freshman. And don’t even get me started with how many kids spend every weekend night playing Call of Duty… it’s a ** LOT. **</p>
<p>We just need to have some faith in the IU student body and realize that it’s a small group of people that make the entire IU dorm system look bad.</p>
<p>^^^“Cops come every weekend.”</p>
<p>Do they make arrests?</p>
<p>^ Not usually. It’s usually just because someone calls the cops for noise instead of contcting the R.A. or else they come to break up a fight or something minor like that. I only know of one kid who got arrested in the dorms, but he was trying to light the carpet on fire and setting off firecrackers in the elevator (all whilst completely hammered) and he deserved it. But it never causes a big scene or anything, it’s just something you hear about the next day.</p>
<p>But like I said in my last post, this shouldn’t deter people from coming to IU. It’s just a small percentage of students that make us all look bad.</p>
<p>Yah well people get arrested in Teter all the time. One girl was drunk last semester during halloween and she was running around Teter Boisen with a chainsaw and she got arrested another time a kid was pukin out of the top floor of Teter Rabb onto the sidewalk i think he got arrested. i feel like there is ALWAYS a cop car parked on 10th st at either wright or teter.</p>
<p>if u want a quiet dorm, u need to get eigenmann, read, or forest (or ashton if you want a single) othweise it’s not going to be something u will like.</p>
<p>If u like 2 be annoyed pick NW or live in wright and teter.</p>
<p>Is the party scene at Collins this crazy? I was hoping to be living there this fall, from the research I’ve done it didn’t seem like a party dorm, since I’m sort of a nerd and not really into that 
But some of these stories are making me think that maybe I should just change my preferences to South East just to be safe…</p>