<p>Hi,</p>
<p>I'm a Spring 11 transfer student and wondering where the best places to live are on campus?</p>
<p>Thanks.</p>
<p>I would say if you can get a place on west campus that’s the best.</p>
<p>hello there,</p>
<p>I am a spring transfer as well. I have a friend who offers me a bedroom for half price of the dorms. I know a lot of people who move into apartments after a year spent living on campus. Would someone compare the life off and on campus for a newbie student?</p>
<p>Will it be hassle for me to go to gym, library, and restaurants if i love off campus?</p>
<p>@faustarp
Should I be a part of that West Campus Housing System program? It’s sounds kinda dumb to me. </p>
<p>I was thinking of living in Cascadilla Hall or overtop of the performing arts center just because it’s in a new part of collegetown but I would like to know everyone’s opinions on that such as room size, relation to dining halls, etc?</p>
<p>Thanks.</p>
<p>if you’re on west you do have to be a part of the housing system, but I that is generally thought of as the best housing for upperclassmen. what do you find particularly dumb about it? (I’m just asking because you might have valid concerns or you might be misunderstanding something, so I want to be sure.) I have lived on west for the past three semesters (sophomore yr and now start of jr yr) so I am quite familiar with it.</p>
<p>you can have a meal plan in the collegetown dorms but you’re a lot further from the dining halls. when you’re on west the dining halls are right nearby or actually inside the building where you live. I think the dining hall food at Cornell is excellent so it’s worth taking advantage of them. however, the west campus meal plan can be a bit overbearing.</p>
<p>I think the rooms the new west campus dorms are a bit small but they are probably normal for most college. the rooms in the gothics can be huge but some are normal-sized as well. the room sizes vary in cascadilla and sheldon: I have seen very crowded doubles and also doubles with tons of floorspace…so I guess it’s a gamble there.</p>
<p>@faustarp
Great post thanks a lot. Yea I guess I have just past judgement a little early. I guess when I think of a housing program I think of people doing like arts and crafts together or something. Just not my thing. But please explain it. </p>
<p>So West Campus is nice and centered around the gym and dining halls etc?</p>
<p>i applied for west campus</p>
<p>Did you just request the West Campus Housing Program?</p>
<p>there’s not much in West that’s different from the regular dorm experience. I don’t live differently on a day-to-day basis than I did freshman year living in a north campus dorm. in any Cornell dorm there were will programming and activities planned, and you can partake if you choose and you can totally ignore them if you choose. probably the most noticeable thing is the weekly house dinners, but you are always able to eat at any other dining hall, and after a certain hour in the evening you can eat at whichever west campus dining hall you want too. </p>
<p>I have definitely not done any arts and crafts against my will or anything! I have done a couple of dorm activities that particularly interested me, but there was never any pressure to do them.</p>
<p>Thanks! Great post again!</p>
<p>I was assigned to the Carl Becker House.</p>
<p>Becker is great 
I live there now…let me know if you have any questions.</p>
<p>@country
Thanks. I am living in a suite… could you tell me how big it is by any chance?</p>
<p>@Ithacakid: The suites are nice…3 singles and a double grouped around a common room and a bathroom. I’d say the rooms are typical size compared to most other schools.</p>