<p>Whatever. I’ve been to my friends’ schools, some of them have nicer dorms than ours, and some of them are appalling and tiny. Students cite the dorms as a minus because there’s not much else they can think of, and since some were built in the 1960s, yeah, they’re not the best. </p>
<p>And it’s weird, because I think of Wren as the crappiest dorm, but this year it was high demand, and people spruced up their common rooms with posters, christmas lights, and drew chalk pictures on the brick walls. It looked more fun and social than many other dorms I’ve seen. People hang out in the common rooms whether or not there are leather chairs in them, and if your common room is for some reason unacceptable to you, you can hang out with friends in a myriad other campus areas.</p>
<p>Also, the downhill dorm area is just unfortunate b/c it doesn’t have a quad. There’s some space between Tilton and Haskell where I’ve seen guys playing soccer, between Lewis and Tilton, and in front of South and Latin Way, where people lie out on blankets and play guitar in good weather, but it doesn’t have the same feel as the Res or Academic quads. </p>
<p>Last year my ex-roommate and I had a really funny conversation online about how we’d make a list of buildings on campus that we’d blow up (IT WAS A JOKE…WE ARE NOT THREATENING THE SCHOOL) for one reason or other. For example, Hill Hall was on the top of the list b/c we were ****ed at Mail Services. (Like when you stop by for a package at 3 pm, walk all the way back to South, and then your email has a message in the inbox - delivered at 5 in the MORNING! - saying “Packages pending pickup.”) Latin Way was demolished for being too geometric (what is with the crazy octagonal layout, and the shapes in the windows??), Bush was out because it reminded us too much of our embarrassing president, etc. Uphill was reduced to Miller, Olin, West and Carmichael (because uphillers have to eat, too). We couldn’t figure out whether or not to get rid of Packard, though, because we have no idea what happens in it. lol. BUT, the POINT is, we didn’t just say “let’s level all the dorms, because they all suck!” lol. Extraneous story, but I think some of you will appreciate it.</p>