Sheed30

I hope not...because that's going to be me too

corranged

Probably not. Max is huge.

Sheed30

yea, let's keep pour fingers crossed, i officially sent my housing info in a few hours ago/.

anotherstudent

Current students - would you be willing to say what dorm(s) you have lived in and share some of your personal experiences in them? While the bullet-point pro/con stuff is great and all, I for one also like to get more subjective/anecdotal information in order to feel like I'm making an informed decision. Thanks a lot for all of your insights on the forum, by the way.

Also, question on Hitchcock house... I'm encountering some contradictions on single-sex living arrangements for first years. The housing website seems to suggest that Hitchcock's first year sections are entirely single-sex, but I'm pretty sure that my S-H tour guide said that while the tiny floors within those sections are single-sex, the overall sections are co-ed. Can someone clear this up?

[For those who are curious to know what I'm talking about, Hitchcock isn't divided up into large floors like typical dorms; instead, it's divided into tower-like groupings called sections.]

threedaysgrace

Great suggestion another student! I have just one random question to add:

Is the food in Pierce that bad? I stayed in Max P when I visited and my host told me that Bartlet is like gourmet while Pierce is like cold McDonalds. I had the food (amazing!!) at Bartlet but never got to eat at Pierce.

phuriku

Pierce is awful. In my humble opinion. Some people like it.

WindSlicer

Pierce food is not amazing like Bartlett's, no.

But it is in our dorm... and yea, that's kinda nice when it's cold out...

unalove

The Completely Unofficial 08-09 Chicago Dorm Guide

That's the most comprehensive thread on dorms that we have running.

Hitchcock is co-ed by "floor." As any Hitchcockian can explain, H is organized in vertical columns (sections) and in order to get from the third floor of section 2 to the third floor of section 3, you have to go alll the way downstairs and then all the way upstairs again. Each floor in each section has a hall bathroom, and that bathroom is de facto single-sex, because everybody on the section-floor is of the same sex.

anotherstudent

But is it also co-ed by sections?

unalove

yes, it's just single sex alternating by floor.

glomp

It depends on what your personality is like / what you're looking for. However, Max P is by far the cleanest dorm. (And by that I mean it's the newest, so the bathrooms aren't covered by years of shower mold.)

Broadview is old and grimey. The floors creak, the bathroom floors are gross, the whole place smells like my grandmother's house. Also, it's far from campus (which is both a pro and con depending on what you prefer).

Snell is also old and grimey, but people from Snell can wear flip-flops to class due to their amazing location on the quad.

Pierce is pretty disgusting and can get unbearably hot during O-Week and finals week in Spring (think: giant clay oven) and is also the farthest from the Quad of the on-campus dorms. That being said, Pierce is the ONLY dorm where the dining hall is completely attached (meaning you can go downstairs wearing whatever you want regardless of the weather outside).

B-J is as disgusting as Pierce. (Except with wood instead of concrete.) Also the B-J dining hall is the worst out of the three.

JHS

Someone needs to grow up a bit. Sorry, Princess: it's a dorm, not a Four Seasons.

unalove

All of the UChicago dorms are either palaces or comparable compared to the dorms I had stayed in during summer programs at various college campuses.

kodama

Re: Hitchcock, it's worth noting (since most/many people stay in the dorm) that the upper-class sections are mostly co-ed room-by-room, unlike the six firstie floors.

Also, both Snell and Hitchcock are in pretty good shape other than carpets and some plaster here and there, but Snell is definitely better on that front (though it is also less elaborate).

cottonwood513

I disagree strongly with glomp on Broadview.