aberdeen15

Burbank House in Stern!

Hey Baten, nice housing assignment by the way I'm not sure where you stayed during AW, but I stayed in Casa Zapata (which was awesome all around), and they had renovated bathrooms. The shower stalls were fine for me; better than other colleges I have visited. Each of the stalls has a small changing room (with a folding bench and several hooks) that is separated from the shower by a curtain; very convenient. There were hypersensitive, automatic flushing toilets. Individual storage cubicles for toiletries near the bathroom door. Uh... sinks and stuff? Anyway, the bathrooms are better than decent once renovated.

I never got to see an older bathroom at Stanford, so I have nothing to compare it against unfortunately.

Baten

okay. thank god. (nice house assignment for you too!) when i stayed, i was at rinc. and the showers were separated by curtains. there weren't any stalls. the rest was standard toilets (not automatic), cubicles and sinks. but the lack of real privacy for a shower bothered me. A LOT.

Majal

Roble. Looks pretty nice from the homepage.

frog139

FroSoCo frosh message me and say hi! I'm going to be one of the sophomores living there and I'm happy to answer questions or just say hello!

hpfan018

I got Soto house in Wilbur Hall. Not sure whether I should be excited or not though...

aberdeen15

i know how you feel, baten, showers were one of my major concerns as well. I was praying for a house with renovated bathrooms.

brendanww

None of you guys have anything to worry about. I remember I was terrified of the fact that I would have to use communal showers (no divider's, four showerheads) in a 155 year old building when I left for boarding school - actually I wasn't aware of this but naturally learned this vital piece of information my first day in the dorms. But by the time they got around to renovating the bathrooms, putting in dividers and curtains, I actually became annoyed by the invasion of my space. I had grown to love the luxury of using 2-4 showerheads when I woke up at 5 each morning.

So you see, whatever you get, you'll learn to love. Unless it is a tarantula that kills you. Then you will be dead. And you won't be able to love the tarantula. Because you'll be dead.

ngolsh314

FroSoCo, in Adams. cool beans

asian75

FroSoCo is pretty bad. I feel sorry for you

ngolsh314

actually FroSoCo is what i wanted. so don't bother.

asian75

I still feel sorry for you

ngolsh314

are you even a student?

runeknightx

uh dude frosoco is one of the most popular housing options; that's why they have an additional section for it. why would it be bad?

ngolsh314

rune, he's a troll. don't bother. i reported his posts, hopefully the mods delete them. just ignore him for now

hpfan018

Yes asian75 seems to be giving a lot of unhelpful advice. Actually, I won't go so far as to call it advice... just unhelpful comments.

I have, however, heard from a friend of mine who's a current Stanford student that it's far from "everything." I dunno what that everything is... but apparently around campus it's known as FroSoFar or something like that? :S I'm pretty sure the dorms themselves aren't going to be that much better or worse than the others though... As runeknightx said, if it's that bad why would you have to write an extra essay for it? There must be some reason that people want to live there so much.

That aside, I'm pretty excited about my assignment. Apparently Wilbur has one of the best dining halls on campus And I looked at Soto's website and 2 years ago there was a Harry Potter theme for NSO. I know that it's probably not gonna be Harry Potter related this year but I just thought that was cool