Class of '13 Housing Assignments - Page 4

asian75 · 08-12-2009, 02:43 AM

FloMo is actually pretty good.

kasiiaaa · 08-14-2009, 07:13 PM

skyraptor - Nope, I'm not in SLE. I'm in Loro house.

Sly Si · 08-15-2009, 12:23 PM

When I lived in Wilbur as a frosh, I liked it for the first two quarters. Come spring, I realized that it was the same food over and over again, and got really tired of it. Then I lived there again for part of junior year, and mostly hated it. Ricker is delicious; I was there all of senior year. It's also the friendliest dining hall; the staff actually gets to know students because there are so few of them.

bvdclv · 08-19-2009, 03:56 PM

Is Stern dining really that bad? How big are the rooms? Anyone from Twain?

GammaGrozza · 08-19-2009, 05:30 PM

^I was in Stern for admit weekend. I had breakfast there and the food was solid. I wouldn't mind eating that stuff everyday.

The rooms were decent sized, and they seemed fairly new (not uber old like you'll find at some colleges). My room hosts had a bunk set up, a couple lounge chairs (where I slept), and two desks with officy chairs. It definitely wasn't cramped.

bvdclv · 08-19-2009, 10:55 PM

Thanks GammaGrozza. I appreciate the info.

electricalstorm · 08-23-2009, 07:44 PM

Wilbur food isn't bad exactly, it just doesn't change. It's actually pretty great during fall, but by spring, not so much. (I lived in Wilbur this past year). The good thing is that Wilbur is big and always has some option that you can stomach (pasta, burgers, asian food, huge salad bar, desert). Stern is the worst, though not horrible food by all means, and breakfast and desert are good, and there is always chips and salsa. Lag is great food and even better late night (you spend your Cardinal dollars on Late Night and the Axe and Palm at night). FroSoCo is supposedly the best food but it's so so so far away that most from Wilbur/Stern don't go over and visit. I loved FloMo food because there is always hummus (yummy) and icecream and Indian food on Sundays, but it closes on Fridays and Saturdays, so you have to go to other dining halls on those days. It is also isolated from all the other freshmen dorms, but it is in a great location, so it;s a trade off.

Stern dorms are average size (livable but not huge), all doubles and as it will be mostly freshmen it will be very social.

FroSoCo has really nice housing, and it's a great community because it is such a small and isolated community (plus speakers and advisors), but it IS really far away from all the other dorms, especially the (now) all-frosh Wilbur and Stern halls. It's harder to meet people outside of FroSoCo and you have to really make an effort to be social outside of the dorm because you are going to have to bike far away to reach any other dorm (even Lag and Roble which are on the same side of campus and have a lot of students, though they are four-class not just all frosh like Wilbur and Stern). It's harder to go to the parties on the Row (no drunk biking allowed), so many students in FroSoCo party in FroSoCo and don't leave. I know many rising sophomores who left after the first year, but I also know people who are very happy where they are.

soontobemed · 08-24-2009, 05:24 PM

random question...in the dorms that are coed by room, do the rooms alternate male and female? or is one side guys and the other side girls?

aberdeen15 · 08-25-2009, 12:01 AM

Stern has the worst food? That's a relief; I thought the food was pretty good, especially when compared to other college food I've eaten.

Baten · 08-25-2009, 08:59 AM

My friend who is class of 2012, said that they made the food better during admit weekend. So they gave us a bit of false hope. I stayed in Wilbur and thought it wasn't too bad and he said that the food was better than normal since I ran into him at breakfast there once.

bluebubbles · 08-25-2009, 09:46 AM

^ Think of it this way: if the food is terrible, we won't gain the freshman 15 as easily

GeekNerd · 08-25-2009, 10:58 AM

^ A '12er who got FloMo last year called the food "really good" and still lost "lots" of weight from walking around.
I'm a '13 assigned to FloMo, and I got chubby over summer, so I'm hoping to do the same.

asian75 · 08-25-2009, 12:31 PM

Freshmen 15 is not a myth. It happens to most ppl

Sinaj · 08-29-2009, 02:02 PM

My son got Robie. Any thing we should know?

Sly Si · 08-29-2009, 04:09 PM

Roble is a large (300+ residents) 4-class dorm. He'll be living in a 3-room quad: 1 central room with desks in it, and 2 bedrooms with 2 people each off of the central room.