<p>I've spent some time lurking through last years posts and I think I've decided I want to stay away from south campus. No AC in a lot of the dorms + longer walks puts it at the bottom of the list. I was kind of interested in carmichael, nice central location close to classes and I think its being renovated this year so it will be nice. I'm not sure if the work will be finished though. My friend stayed in Winston and enjoyed it so I'm thinking of having that community as a backup.</p>
<p>Carmichael is in an awesome place but I've heard it's still going to be closed next year. I wanted to live there next year myself as a Soph.</p>
<p>As a current freshman living in Hinton James, I'm telling you: LIVE ON SOUTH CAMPUS! Sure, some of the rooms don't have AC (my entire floor has AC...) and the long walk to campus sucks (but there are buses, which I take. religiously.) but let me tell you, it's entirely worth it! There is nothing like the South Campus experience and my friends who live on middle and North campus wished they lived on South Campus as it is entirely WAY more social and gives you the opportunity to meet people and be able to hang out with other South Campus-ers all the time.</p>
<p>RLAJen- Really? I heard Carmichael will be open next year...</p>
<p>If it is open I definitely want to live there. </p>
<p>I've heard a good number of raving reviews for South Campus but honestly never lived there. I live in Parker on Central campus and love the location. It's basically close to anything I need and not terribly far from classes (especially since I bike)</p>
<p>I can't say that I enjoy living in a suite too much and wish I would have ended up in a hall style dorm but the building itself as well as the rooms are pretty awesome. Unless you're outgoing, it can be hard to meet people in a suite style dorm. I have plenty of friends around campus but the only person I know in my suite is my roommate!</p>
<p>If Carmichael is open next year, it will be absolutely impossible for freshmen to get into.</p>
<p>Yes, South Campus can suck without AC and a long walk, but trust me, the social experience is well worth it. Although I do have a few friends who enjoy North Campus (see cloying) the South Campus dorms are mostly freshmen and are the best way to meet people in your class.</p>
<p>Mmmm grumble grumble you guys are making my decision harder! What year do most people usually start wanting to move to north? Is it hard to move to north? Don't you have to give up your room before you can enter the pool? Thats kinda scary..</p>
<p>And darn.. no chance for carmichael..</p>
<p>Most migrate to North campus soph year. I'm fairly certain I will be living in the Kenan Community next year :)</p>
<p>The Kenan Community is, gah, I wish I could say the s word on this forum! It is boss. Wouldn't have lived anywhere else. I get the argument for South Campus but man oh man. Kenan is the bomb. As is Grimes and dorms in that community. Knowing what I know now, I'd recontract for Kenan ten times out of ten if I had to relive my freshman year. A lot of people like Cobb, too, though I haven't been there too often.</p>
<p>Visit and see what you like. Definitely visit some of the Kenan dorms (Alderman, McIver, Spencer (actually Spencer isn't as nice but it has the best location), and Kenan). Old West is also cool. Man. I love North Campus.</p>
<p>yeah i lived in the kenan community for project uplift and my god was my dorm nice.. thats where i plan on living.</p>
<p>How exactly do you visit? You need a card to get in right?</p>
<p>Yes... but you don't NEED a card to get in, if you catch my drift. Getouttabuffalo and I one night decided to go dorm shopping... Basically, our consensus was that Cobb is by far the nicest dorm on campus followed by Kenan and Old West/Old East. Everything else on North and Middle campus is just eh.</p>
<p>S lives in Cobb and really loves it. Very nice after the renovation and while on the edge of Campus still very close to everything on North Campus and Franklin Street. He enjoys the hall style and while not as many Freshman as a South campus locale he seems to have meet plenty of Freshman on North Campus and still gets down to South Campus to visit friends.</p>
<p>calgar, I am SO happy you posted this thread, as I was going to take it upon myself to do so if someone hadn't already! I am positive that I will be coming to UNC and I'm so happy to be able to take the steps towards planning my future there. As soon as I got my acceptance, housing became my biggest concern (okay, I lie, I'd been cruising the residential site for ages before that).</p>
<p>I have been planning on living on South Campus because even though North Campus sounds wonderful in every way, coming from out of state, I feel that the social experience for freshmen on South Campus is really important and necessary for me. I'm even looking at the long walks to classes in a positive light, because hey, at least they'll do a little something to ward off the freshman 15 - and on days that I'm feeling too blah for foot travel, I can bus it.</p>
<p>My biggest concern with South Campus is AC. :/ I badly want air conditioning, so I'll have to cross my fingers. And after reading RLAJen's post above, my only other concern is suite style vs hall style. I had always envisioned myself in suite, because I assumed it would automatically give me a group of buddies, but who knows how things may turn out.</p>
<p>Would anyone be willing to break down the buildings on South Campus for us? I'm really interested in knowing the perks of each of them, along with how they are generally regarded and why. After browsing through the housing web site, I've noticed a few in particular. Carmichael (boo for a low likelihood of freshmen living there), Morrison, and Ehringhaus South/Horton all caught my eye. I actually remember seeing Ehringhaus South and Horton in person and thinking they were cute, but they seemed really far out? The maps on the web site don't really mean much to me, haha.</p>
<p>Thanks for any input!</p>
<p>Yeah I'm pretty much torn right now. I'm weird when it comes to sleeping and can't really get a good night unless its like 65 or below so I think I would be miserable all summer in anything with no AC. They would smell a little too right? lol.. Also cloying said something about people breaking out with rashes because of the heat...</p>
<p>As for random tidbits about dorms, for whatever they're worth: I've been in a friends room who lives in Craige, hes on the 4th? floor and has AC. I'm not much of a fan of suites, the room was alright though. Also my sister lived in Alexander for 3 years, it was kind of quiet and anti-social, people always kept doors closed, substance free might have had something to do with that.</p>
<p>Does anyone know if you can be guaranteed a dorm room with air conditioning if you have a doctor's note for allergies or other medical conditions? I'd like to live on South, but I can't healthily live in a room without AC.</p>
<p>Ehaus South and Horton are now considered the Manning community. They all have AC and are pretty nice (I have a lot of friends in Horton) and have a lot of athletes and scholarship (like the Robertson) students. </p>
<p>Some rooms in Ehaus/Craig/Hojo have AC. At least one room per suite is supposed to have it, so hopefully those people will be nice and leave their door open if you don't have AC. Unless you are unlucky like me and happen to be in the only suite in the entire building that has no AC (although we got one installed about a month into the year). Yes, having no AC sucks, but just get a lot of fans and it's bearable. Never had to deal with anything smelling (except the time we forgot about milk in the fridge but that's another story) and never got acne because of the heat.</p>
<p>I personally like the suite style, but I got really lucky with my suite. We are all very different but all get along very nicely. You would think having 8 girls share 1 toilet/shower would be a problem, but it's really not a big deal at all. I know people that are best friends with everyone in their suite, others that don't really talk to anyone in their suite at all.</p>
<p>South Campus somewhere probably...how loud is it....ie how hard is it to study in your dorm room there?</p>
<p>I mean it can be loud sometimes on weekends. I personally don't suggest studying in your dorm room no matter where you live (this is something I've learned this semester) because there are so many distractions. If you're in your room, you'll want to lay down and take a nap, or watch TV, etc.</p>
<p>Maybe I'll share my secret studying places that are close to South Campus when you guys get closer to actually being at the Hill haha</p>
<p>It's ironic. I thought that I wouldn't like being in an all girls, hall style dorm, but it turned out that I liked both elements. I've made a lot of friends through ECs but my core group is from my hall. I also think that hall style bathrooms are awesome because it means that if one toilet is messed up you have four more to choose from (same goes for showers). That was very nice. And somehow I have never ever competed with another girl for a shower during the busy times. In fact, I wonder if anyone else in my dorm showers because no one else is ever in there when I am.</p>
<p>The one complaint I've heard about Cobb is that the doors are so heavy that it's hard to prop them open, which can hamper you socially in those first few weeks. Having an open door policy is actually pretty important so I can see what people are saying - a few people have told me they actually would break their doors to get past this, even though I have no idea exactly what they mean by that.</p>
<p>If I had to pick again, I'd put Kenan as my number one choice (always), and then it's tied between the Old West and Mangum communities, then probably Cobb. Cobb is pretty nice, I just don't like its location. There are actually three rooms on our hall with junior girls who have been there for three years in a row now. If you go for north campus, definitely, definitely consider the Kenan community! I don't know much about south campus in terms of the difference between Craige and Ehaus, but it really is a different Carolina experience - and not one to dismiss, I'd say.</p>
<p>Listen to annn. I don't want to explicitly say to wait for people to swipe their flex pass and then follow them into the dorm because you won't be able to get in if you knock and ask the person working at the front desk, so, I'll just end my sentence there, shall I? I will not ever say something like that, because then there will be murders in Kenan and I'll feel pretty guilty. :) I know when I start giving tours this spring I'll offer people to see my dorm room... they're okay with tour guides doing that, so you can always ask a tour guide, too.</p>
<p>I'm a freshman currently in Ehringhaus right now and I would only recommend South Campus if a) you consider yourself exceptionally social and outgoing or b) you can secure a room in one of the Manning communities (Ehringhaus South, Horton, Hardin, Craige North).</p>
<p>Just some things to consider:
1. Location is important. You may not mind the walk, but you might mind the morning time crunch that only gets worse if you're fifteen minutes away from your first class. The buses get really crowded anytime it's hot, cold, or rainy.
2. It may seem like the suite-style bathroom would be more private, but if you're sharing with seven other people, it's not. Even among the men, bathroom time competition is fierce.
3. You're forced to interact with suitemates, but in suite-style, RLAJen is right: "unless you're outgoing, it can be hard to meet people in a suite-style dorm."
4. Air conditioning is important. Central air is even better.
5. The eight-person suites have built-in furniture that can't be moved. If you're not bunking or lofting, this can be a huge pain.</p>
<p>Now, if I could only convince my friends that they should live with me on north campus next year and not in Morrison...</p>