<p>What's the general vibe of the communities at rutgers? Like what comes to mind for College Ave, Livingston, Busch etc.</p>
<p>college ave - parties, smaller dorms, bad food at dining hall
livingston - bigger dorms all freshman
busch - science and math majors, big dorms, best dining hall
cook - big dorms, very far from college ave, rural
douglass - same as cook but mostly girls</p>
<p>College Ave: parties, main campus, bad dining hall, everything is far away, loud, smaller dorms
Busch: science/enginnering classes, nicer and AC dorms, better dining halls, on campus suites and apartments.
Livingston: most freshmen, everything is really close, pretty bad dining hall but good takeout, under construction
Cook/Douglass: rural, far from every campus, best dining hall, a lot of arts classes.</p>
<p>i wouldn't necessarily say rural. I mean, there are trees, but if you're talking about the part of cook way out in the boonies by the highway, yeah, that's pretty remote and rural.</p>
<p>cook doesnt have the reputation of being the best dining hall, busch does.</p>
<p>Cook and Busch are tied in that aspect as far as I'm concerned.</p>
<p>You don't want to live on college ave if you mind people being loud, obnoxious and drunk thursday-saturday.</p>
<p>I'll just add to what i've said before: yeah I don't think there's a flat out "best dining hall" here. Busch and C/D are pretty substantial as far as I'm concerned. C/D has better service from the people who work there though, I must say. They're kind of rude over at Busch esp during the dinner rush. It's a nitpicky thing, but no one likes being snapped at. </p>
<p>and there's something dismal about livingston; when I leave c/d, it's sunny but as soon as I step foot on livingston, it's suddenly all rainy and cloudly. Home to the business school and the RAC. there's not really too much going on here.</p>
<p>The academic buildings on Busch are kind of eyesores. It's the newest campus though, I think. Very asian population. Where the science/engineering/pharmacy programs and the rutgers stadium are housed. But I'd say Busch is the second most social campus, only to college ave.</p>
<p>College Ave is the party campus. It's also the central campus with the rutgers student center where most events/organizations meet. And where a lot of the english and language classes are. </p>
<p>Cook is the rural campus with the cows grazing by the highway. where the c/d rec center is. Where food science/sebs is housed. Douglass and cook share a dining hall. I prefer this dining hall for its food selection, too, especially on the weekends. Douglass is where mason gross is, where all the artsy kids are at. And Douglass is the most beautiful campus of Rutgers, imho, with the wide fields and all the trees and whatnot. </p>
<p>Hope this helps.</p>
<p>I think the reason why Livingston is so gloomy is because it's so haphazardly planned. Did rutgers ever have a central plan for that campus? It just looks like they were thinking oh, let's put a building here, let's put one there, and never bothered to plan the space in between.</p>
<p>All the construction doesn't help much either.</p>
<p>just my additional two cents.</p>
<p>Also, the dining hall on college ave (brower) is horrible. The fact that it's pretty much in the basement and there is little natural light doesn't help the fact that they seem incapable of cooking anything edible.</p>
<p>I think the reason for the unplanned-ness is that most of the buildings there were used for military purposes, like lucy stone and the quads, which is why the quads are not even really quads and have underground tunnels and whatnot. and yes, brower is pretty horrible. I especially appreciate the little table in the back with the pizzas and the desklamps over them to keep them warm. It looks nice on the outside, which is deceiving.</p>
<p>where do SAS and Business freshman end up staying?</p>
<p>anywhere they want. I was in rbs and am living on douglass. the bs is housed on livingston but you don't really take a lot of bs classes your first two semesters, so you can live anywhere you want. most bs people do live on busch or livingston but I do know quite a few people in the bs who live in the newells on douglass.</p>