BananaSandwich15

I just got my housing assignment and I'm in Walker in the Wilson college. I don't know anything about Wilson. Can someone help me out?

ec1234

wilson has the best location- right in the center of campus and right next to frist. I'm not sure if they have redone wilcox (the dining hall) yet, although they did add a random tower. Whitman is very close though. The sister four-year college is butler. Wilson has a nice courtyard with a volleyball net that gets a lot of use in nice weather. Although most of wilson is ugly 60s architecture, walker is a gothic building. Walker is one of the semi renovated gothics, meaning that there is a bathroom on every floor, but has not been renovated all that recently. The walker singles are relatively large, but the doubles are on the small side-- chances are you will need to bunk/loft your beds. Wilson is known for an excess of suites, so sophomore year there is a lot of variety into the size of room you can draw into. Feinberg, Clapp and Walker are probably the three best buildings in wilson.

mansfieldpark

im in wilson too (clapp) and its definitly ugly but the location is perfect.
i know the four year attached is bulter but is it possible to draw into a single (no matter how small) in one of the other four years?

kjj17

yeah um wilson is so ugly haha I was there during preview...but I'm there too )

Alumother

My son was in Walker last year in a double as a freshman. We were not sure he and his roommate could breathe at the same time. The room was REALLY small. However, the hallways are great. He and most of his hallmates became good friends, so it was sort of like having a very large coed suite. And the location, especially the proximity to Frist, is fantastic.

Akabane

I'm in Wilson!!!

Peytoncline

I got a suite in Gauss Hall.

ppp222

Does Wilson have air conditioning?

ray121988

No. But neither does anyone else really except for most of Butler (i.e. Bloomberg). Whitman has A/C installed but it's not on very often.

ec1234

no, no ac really anywhere on campus (other than bloomberg and scully). Parts of forbes are also slightly air conditioned. It was always unclear why the whitman ac wasn't turned on--- it was on the summer that it was being finished, and got turned off ~a week into school and never got turned back on again (even for reunions). Bring a bunch of fans for move-in- it gets hot! (and not the window fans, they don't fit in princeton's windows)

lemoise

New Butler might be air-conditioned too, for anyone who's fortunate enough to live there.

Weasel8488

Peytoncline, are you in 211 Gauss? If so, you have a tradition to uphold.

alamoksha

211 Gauss is trouble. And infected with who-knows-what diseases from the epic filth that previous 211 Gaussers created. Some of my friends lived there my sophomore year and I literally refused to use either of the two restrooms AND/OR sit on any furniture/floors. *shudder*

Otherwise, Wilson is ugly, but an awesome community. Because of the multitude of suites, Wilsonites seem so know many of their fellow residents. You meet one Wilson living in a suite, and you're usually friends with the entire suite soon enough.

Walker is nice because you can take part in the Wilson community without the dirtiness or noise of the non-subfree suite buildings like 1937, 1938, and Clapp.

opqpop

The heaters in Wilson also make sounds that seem like you're being bombed, which is really annoying in the night. It's like a massive explosion sound. Hopefully, you get used to it like I did though.