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04-17-2008, 09:49 PM
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#1 | | Junior Member
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| Best Housing?
Which is the best dorm for freshmen? | 
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04-18-2008, 01:02 AM
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#2 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Hamilton '11 Gender: Male
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| Though not the most convenient, Wertimer is the nicest dorm. The interior and exterior both look amazing, and this fall it's reserved exclusively for freshmen.
I live in Dunham this year, the most centrally located of all dorms available to freshmen. It's not too bad either. | |
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04-19-2008, 01:22 PM
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| HMC-- are these on the light side? do you recommend the light side or the dark side? | |
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04-19-2008, 05:51 PM
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| I've heard the light side is prettier, right? | |
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04-19-2008, 05:58 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Hamilton '11 Gender: Male
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| Yep, they're both on the light side. I would really try to stay clear from the dark side for a few reasons. It's a long walk from many of the academic buildings- unless you take classes solely in the arts or in the economics department. It also has the ugly, brutalist architecture. You especially want to snag a dorm on the light side for the next couple years, with the major construction on the Kirner-Johnson building. The McKewen dining hall there is also closed on the weekends so you would have to travel to the other side of campus for every meal.
Also, darksiders usually get the reputation as being "emo." One of the weekly publications, The Duel Observer, has a running joke about darksiders "cutting their wrists."
The Duel Observer is actually pretty hilarious. Check it out here: THE DUEL OBSERVER | "Knowe Thyself, Not Be Thyself" | |
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04-22-2008, 09:41 PM
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| I went to the open house this past Monday (the campus was amazing by the way), and it appears that the students really don't have much of an option as to where they get to stay, or what sort of rooms (double, trip, quad) in which they want to stay. It is all determined by the office of admission based upon a survey. Is this true, and if so, does it end up being annoying? | |
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04-22-2008, 11:02 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: California Gender: Female
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| hey, if you want to check out a little description of all the housing, they have an online housing guide, https://my.hamilton.edu/college/resi...tYrHousing.pdf, which sums up everything...
i was there monday as well, and i agree that it was amazing. | |
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04-22-2008, 11:03 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Hamilton '11 Gender: Male
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| Incoming freshman really don't have any role in choosing housing. The survey is used to pair compatible roommates for the most part. There may be some way to choose answers to the survey that could land you in a certain dorm, but I don't know for sure. | |
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04-26-2008, 10:32 AM
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Join Date: Mar 2005
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| If you want to live on the light side, then make yourself appear as social, athletic, and accommodating as possible on the housing questionnaire (i.e. Say you don't need a lot of privacy, you don't mind having lots of people in your room, you don't do work in your room, etc.). Making yourself appear as social as possible, while certainly not a guarantee, is about all your can do to influence what dorm you're put in (especially considering all the quads are on the light side, while freshman housing on the dark side is all doubles.
As a current student, South is hands down the best freshman dorm. I lived in a Dunham quad my freshman year, and while I loved the overall experience, Dunham is dirty, smelly, and quads are pretty small. South quads have their own bathroom and are HUGE compared to Dunham's--freshman that live in a South quad will probably not having housing that nice again until their senior year. | |
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04-26-2008, 05:26 PM
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| ^Nice, thanks for the tips. | |
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