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The rooms get very hot. There is no air conditioning in most of the dorms and it can get very warm in blacksburg. I actually suggest using two window fans, one in each side. If you do that and leave the door open a little the room can get pretty comfortable. I also had a little clamp fan that I put on my bed to keep me cool at night, and it really helped. You can get any normal sized box fan and wedge it in the window no problem. They are rectangular, but you just have to pull the top half down until it holds the fan in place. Mine fell once I think, and that was when it was off and we got some insane wind gust into the room. Blacksburg weather is... fickle.
Favorite class is really hard to say, since I've only been able to take two of my electives so far... I will say that Intro to Humanities, Science and Technology was very interesting, and the workload wasn't horrible. It was easy to get a B in, but not an A. The class was based on looking at how people interperet and use technology, and mostly dealt with case studies like the Colombia disaster, frankenstein and eugenics. You don't have to be a huge science person to do well in the class at all.
I also took History 1116 (skipped 1115 since I like post civil war history better) and it wasn't bad. Not that hard to pull an A in and the subject matter seemed more relevant than most history classes, since it was so recent. Not as interesting as IHST though.
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