<p>Hi Smother,
My D is a current freshman screenwriting major who lives in North Morlan. When she went through housing last year, she got an email that they were going to try something new with the film students and have them housed together in NoMo and in Glass. There is no official Greek housing (although some do choose to live together after their freshman year…but that is a choice and not official). One of my D’s suitemates is Greek and while she loves it, she will not be living with anyone from her sorority next year.
D absolutely loves Chapman, Dodge, and living in NoMo! Touring the dorms is very helpful for students to envision themselves living there, but it’s important for them to be open-minded and not get set on any particular dorm. When we took the dorm tour during Preview Day last spring, NoMo was not at the top of D’s list. NoMo is older, the rooms open to the real world rather than an enclosed hallway, and the tour guide said that NoMo tended to be the most social dorm with residents leaving their doors open a lot of the time. D is an introvert and found the idea of this daunting. However, she has found that NoMo suits her perfectly, and she is happy that she is living there rather than in the dorms she preferred during the tours.
D also wondered if living with all film students would narrow her experiences too much, especially since she had already heard that the nature of the film program tends to keep film students together. But she found that it really helped in the collaborative nature of the film projects, especially since D is a writer and has never filmed before. If she needs help with sound equipment she can go right next door and if she needs a talented voice actor to speak for the vegetables in her movie (yes, that really happened), she can just go a couple doors down. From what she tells us, it seems like creativity is just bursting on that floor! She is excited and stimulated by the people she meets, and she adores her digital arts roommate. Within a couple of months of starting school, she was the lead actress in her suitemate’s final movie (My daughter the introvert! Proud parental jaw drop!) as well as doing editing, filming, writing, props, and casting. She is thrilled. We are thrilled.</p>