<p>I'm majoring in engineering and want to know which is the better housing.</p>
<p>Honors housing is McCormick Suites which is you and 5 other roommates. This is the best possible housing for freshman. The engineering "dorm" on Busch is Barr, which to be quite honest is the worse housing of the freshman dorms on Busch (those being the BAMM complex "Barr, Allen, Mattia, Metzger" and the Davidson complex). The reason Barr is so bad is because 1. Its almost all guys 2. There all engineers, which means no other majors which could make conversations boring because everyone is alike. Although from what I hear Mattia will also be all guys next year as well (its coed floors this year). So the best choice is honors housing which is the Suites.</p>
<p>McCormick > Barr.</p>
<p>Without a doubt.</p>
<p>McCormick is definitely nicer than the BAMM complex, but I resent the statement that Barr is bad.</p>
<p>I live in Barr now, and I wouldn't trade it for anything. The people in my building are amazing, and it sounds kind of typical of an engineering student but..</p>
<p>The engineering curriculum is hard as hell, but when you live with a bunch of people who are taking the same classes as you, it makes things a lot easier. We certainly don't study all the time by any means, but when exams are approaching or physics homework is due at midnight and it's 11:52, I'd much rather be where everyone around you can help. </p>
<p>If you aren't around other engineers, you're at a disadvantage within the program, because a bunch of people are and the school has numbers that do actually prove that it helps. (Average GPA within SOE freshmen went up the year they instituted housing for engineers)</p>
<p>And I don't exactly know what you mean by all engineering majors being 'alike,' because its definitely not true by any means.</p>
<p>^ well its pretty much the same when you compare it to a biology major.</p>