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Hi! I'm a new 2012.
This is going to be my first time to live in a dorm, so I wanted to know more about C dorms. I searched for pictures/information about Carleton freshmen dorms but just can't find much of it.
Can you tell me something about the dorms? What's it like? Thanks!

Please rate your dorms,

@ so bad that I can't take it anymore: Please type 10

@ so good that I don't wanna graduate anymore: please type 1.

and for those in-between feelings, please select a number between 1~10 according to your feelings.

and any comment or advice about the dorm is welcomed!

fireflyscout

Freshmen are placed in all but a couple of the dorms (Severance, the townhouses, interest houses). The website has floor plans for all the dorms. The majority of freshmen are placed in Watson or Goodhue, where you can really develop great friendships. Watson is the 7-story dorm, and has singles (not for freshmen), doubles, and forced triples (not as big as a regular triple, but not bad, sizewise). Goodhue is across the lakes next to the Rec Center and is doubles. My daughter was in Watson as a freshman and in Goodhue as a sophomore, and has enjoyed both experiences. Evans is the party dorm, and has an odd layout. Musser and Myers are more or less identical, not much charm, but residents get very artistic with the ceramic tile walls in the halls. Nourse, Burton, and Davis offer the most interesting (and variable) room layouts.

dietcokewithlime

Nothing is unbearable, and nothing is amazing. They're just dorms. You'll live with one or two other people and have to learn to share space. That key experience is basically the same no matter where you're placed. Carleton is just not one of the those schools that has subscribed to the notion that all students need enormous posh rooms to themselves, laundry service, private bathrooms, gyms in the basement, whatever other ridiculous amenities some other schools are putting in.

That said: Watson is small, insular, good for community building, not so good if you're not into the culture your floor develops. Goodhue, Myers, Musser, and Burton have a more anonymous, large institutional feel at first but become more pleasant as the year goes on and you get to know more people on your floor. Burton in particular has a very bustling feel to it (especially the first floor, which is a thoroughfare between the campus center and south campus). Nourse and Davis are fairly quiet, amenable but unexciting places to live.

You can view floor plans at Carleton College: Floor Plans

GerberDaisy

CarlWiki also has fun information about different residence halls and houses.

ferrisbueller

I wish Carleton had laundry service. Private bathrooms too, that way my bathroom would be vomit and shower-sex free at all times.
Before you panic, those things are not regular Carleton bathroom features, though I'll admit that I've encountered both.
As for the dorms, I live in Goodhue, which I think is the nicest of the more freshman-oriented dorms (Watson, Myers, and Musser are the others). It's a bit of a walk, but the building itself is nice, and the rooms are at least normal sized. I'm planning on living here again next year.

Leshachikha

Here's another Goodhue-ite. The rooms are spacious and have a lot of light. I don't mind the bathrooms. Good amount of storage space. There's an annoying design quirk on the arb-side of the building where when the closet door is left too wide open, the regular door hits it and can't shut, making an awful noise. That's my only real complaint.

So... 4?

BellaD

Wait, no laundry service? Do you wash your clothes with your hands then? This may sound stupid since I have not been in Carleton so please forgive me.

fireflyscout

There are washing machines and dryers available. What they mean is that there isn't anyone who will do it for them. Sorry guys, the only college I know of with laundry service is Davidson. Or there's always the "save all the dirty clothes until I get home so Mom can do it" option. NOT.