The south side dorms are all considered the more social side of things. Blackwell is less than a year old, but after a year of my kid living there and helping him move out yesterday, I don’t feel Blackwell is necessarily all that different than say Unit 3. A messy room looks the same everywhere lol. He had friends at Units 2 and 3 and said that the rooms were as nice if not better there. It’s probably all in the way you decorate your room. The Units along with Foothill all kinda look pretty bad from the outside but ok on the inside. Even Blackwell’s architecture from the outside leaves a lot to be desired IMO. CK definitely looks nice from the outside.
@Walter924 @ProfessorPlum168 Thank you both! I have decided that I want to live in the units based on your input and my own research. I have found a roommate, but am considering adding a third who I find very similar to myself and my roommate. Is a triple in the units a good idea?
@nigeluno triples will save you some money in the Units which is the good news. I myself never particularly liked being in a bunk bed but that’s just me, and my kid wanted to avoid a bunk as well. However maybe you can negotiate getting the non-bunk. Or maybe it doesn’t matter to you.
So how a dorm works out just depends on the individual.
@ProfessorPlum168 thanks for the input! It won’t be too crowded with 3 people, right?
@nigeluno if all of you are minimalist it shouldn’t be too bad. Look at the videos on YouTube for Unit 1/2/3 triples, there should be quite a few videos. Hopefully all of you can sleep and wake up around the same time.
@ProfessorPlum168 thank you!
What date last year did housing assignments come out?
Housing assignments came out this week last year, for the incoming freshmen. Not sure if that applies to everyone.
For those of you who didn’t get the email, Homecoming weekend for the upcoming school year is Oct 18-20. Football game is against Oregon State. It also means an Open House for many of the buildings as well, so a good time for prospective students and parents to come as well.
@ProfessorPlum168 , about those football tickets: When do they usually go on sale? If my kid is in the marching band, do they have access to tickets for parents?
There is a specific website for students to purchase tickets at a discount. They are available now for a season pass. $99 for season pass. There may be a $89 promotion going on, I think I recall my kid mentioning it. Individual tickets don’t go on sale until mid-July. If you are planning on attending more than 2 games it’s better to get the season pass.
i just got assigned a unit 1 double-- kinda wanted blackwell, but it will do! does anyone have any insight?
@taloolab a double works well. You get more space plus you only have one roommate to deal with.
Does anyone know how we’ll get notified on who our roommates are? And when should we order the microchill fridge/microwave?
If you have random roommate assignments, they happen in July. Not sure when you get notified if you requested one and if there is a match - probably a lot sooner.
Microchill should be ordered before August 1, I think you get a discount. For Blackwell, you don’t need Microchill, it’s already provided.
Microchills are the best. It’s like 108$ for a fridge, freezer, and microwave. Good purchase. Coordinate with roommates so you don’t get too many/few.
Daughter got assigned Unit 3 with a triple! Yuck. She and her roommate didn’t even put down Unit 3 or triple as one of their choices. The grand plan is to antagonize the third mysterious roommate enough so that she would move out on her own to give them more space 
lmao
So, I’ve seen a lot of college ranking popping up on my FB feed and I could’t help it but open a few (I promise i have a lot of restrain but my husband said I was like a squirrel sometimes lol) . Can’t remember the source now but UCB was ranked #14 and UCLA was somewhere in mid 40’s which surprised me. But what surprised me most was that the ranking of hardest colleges to get in. I thought UCLA was harder to get in because the acceptance rate at UCLA is lower than UCB (last year UCLA was around 14%, UCB was??). But the article i saw, again UCLA was ranked way easier to get in than UCB. What other criteria does the “hardest to get in” base on other than acceptance rate?
Anyways, back to my regular schedule.
@nhatrang Unit 3 should be ok. It’s what you make of it. The room will feel small as a triple, but the cafeteria is right there, plus the security system for entrance into the dorm is very secure at night.
Since your daughter has a known roommate, a lot of off-campus housing is showing up on listings also (I get about 3 or 4 new ones each day for the past couple of weeks since I thought my kid was going off-campus). Freshmen should probably stay in dorms the first year, but just throwing this out as an option.
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