<p>no housing is not first come first serve. its completely random</p>
<p>but it can't hurt to do it now...
if the deadline slips by you, you're screwed :rolleyes:</p>
<p>yeah. i dont see any reason why you shouldnt do it now...unless you're really strapped for cash and cant afford to spend $30 yet.....</p>
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<p>I believe incoming freshman go through a lottery in housing, after students with special circumstances are situated. Next step is to "attempt" to match preferences.</p>
<p>gogogo and lovelyday, theme housing exists in de neve and rieber hall.... my first year i was on one of the themed floors in rieber and i would assume they're all still there. so no, you wouldn't be guaranteed de neve b/c theme housing does exist elsewhere...</p>
<p>So the res plazas aren't socially "dead", right? Because from what everyone has been saying.. it seems like it's much easier to make friends in a res hall. But I can't imagine myself using a communal bathroom.. </p>
<p>What I'm trying to ask is:
1) If you've stayed in a res plaza: Did you find it harder to meet new people? Were there a lot of freshmen who also stayed in the plaza with you?
2) If you've stayed in a res hall: How was the noise level? How were the bathrooms? (like were the clean? crowded? if you could do it again would you stay in a plaza instead?)</p>
<p>Thanks so much in advance! It's pretty stressful trying to decide what kind of housing to get..</p>
<p>OH! Also: if you pick someone to be your roommate and they pick you.. are you pretty much guaranteed to be roommates?</p>
<p>res plaza (i live in de neve):
it is NOT harder to meet new people. if you were to live on a huge floor, would you become friends with everyone? probably not. the smaller floors on plazas just provide a tighter-knit community. the danger is that most of the people might decide to hole up in their rooms, but honestly, you can get a social plaza floor and a quiet res hall floor just as easily. it's all a roll of the dice! there are a bunch of sophomores at the other end i never see. but at our end of the floor is a bunch of freshman, and we clicked really well at the beginning of the year. in and out of each other's rooms all the time, etc etc.</p>
<p>so... you never know what you'll get. if social life is HUGE to you, enough to make you deal with communal bathrooms, go with a res hall.
if communal bathrooms are a deal-breaker (as they were for me), then go with a plaza. not all plazas are dead, even though they do get a bad rap for being anti-social.
all depends on your particular floor, in both cases.</p>
<p>In the beginning of the year, I know my friends in plazas had a lot of cool house events going on.</p>
<p>res hall (Dykstra, has a reputation for being the most social)
Noise on my floor means something fun/interesting is going on so we usually peek out to see what's going on :P
Usually people go to the floor lounge to hang out (with the pretense of studying) so there's more socializing than studying.
:( Most of the non-freshmen don't hang out with us either...
There's still a lot of people on my floor that hole up in their rooms.
Bathrooms are pretty clean since it gets cleaned every morning, but I've seen some gross stuff in there too :P . I've rarely seen the stalls/showers more than half full (there's 6 of each).
Would I do it over again in a plaza? never.</p>
<p>1) If you've stayed in a res plaza: Did you find it harder to meet new people? Were there a lot of freshmen who also stayed in the plaza with you?</p>
<p>I've been living in a plaza for two years now and it really isn't hard to meet new people as long as you MAKE THE EFFORT to do so. Meaning, leave your door open, introduce yourself to everyone on your floor by going room to room in the first week you get here, go to floor events, invite people to go places with you and etc. I mean, if you stay in your room with your door shut, you won't make any friends - and just for reference, the same is true about residence halls. The only reason that I can see as to why res-halls are "more" social is primarily b/c of the communal restrooms, in other words, you CAN'T stay locked in your room all day long b/c the restrooms are down the hall and you'll most likely run into a number of people on the way there.</p>
<p>2) If you've stayed in a res hall: How was the noise level? How were the bathrooms? (like were the clean? crowded? if you could do it again would you stay in a plaza instead?)</p>
<p>I stayed in a res hall my first year (rieber) and honestly, the noise wasn't too bad. My neighbors weren't very loud. In my experience, if there was too much noise, its easy enough to ask them to be quiet and it almost always works. Also, there are quiet hours starting at 10pm weekdays and at 1am on weekends so for the most part, there shouldn't be much going on anyway. </p>
<p>For the most part the restrooms were always clean as they get cleaned daily. And on a floor with close to 40 females, I never once had to wait to use anything.</p>
<p>OH! Also: if you pick someone to be your roommate and they pick you.. are you pretty much guaranteed to be roommates?</p>
<p>I wouldn't say guaranteed, more like its a good possibility.</p>
<p>on the roommates thing...
fill out your apps together. make sure you select the same type of housing as a preference, the same sort of roommate preferences, and MAKE SURE you put "roommate is my highest preference" not room type or whatever else.
if it's easy for the computer to see you're a match, it will put you together! :)</p>
<p>is the housing on a first come first serve basis?
because im not totally sure if im going to ucla yet. should/can i just submit my housing form to get the kind i want?</p>
<p>No, it's random.</p>
<p>If I'm going to be in South Campus, am I going to be surrounded by nerdy engineering students on my floor? I wish to be around more well rounded people who are not afraid to be social and party.</p>
<p>yay, cool, thanks charisma!!</p>
<p>No you won't be surrounded by nerdy engineering students on your floor... housing doesn't consider your major.</p>
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<p>It won't matter. You won't be partying in the dorms if you want a social life.</p>
<p>hey so i put suites as one of my later choices and got hitch suites as a freshman</p>
<p>does anyone have any advice on how that is going to be seeing as it says all the social life is in the halls and plazas?</p>
<p>Im still trying to figure out if i should be bummed or not.</p>
<p>hitch suites is going to be mostly freshmen next year. i admit living there this year it was tougher socially, but i somehow managed by getting that (...outside of hitch) i'm going to be one of the student leaders there next year so talk to me closer in the year if you want more advice</p>
<p>i got a res hall and I want to switch out of it...</p>