Best dorm for CS major

CADREAMIN
Sun, 31 Jan 2016 21:20:44 +0000

My son is CS major that lived in Parkside A&S. It was fantastic, clean, modern with AC, which was a must for us. Beside the heat, it allows you to keep the noise out that you get with open windows. But if you don’t want to use it, open the windows. It is away from the other housing, but as gamergal27 says it is closest to the CS buildings, which frankly first year you can be all over the place so it doesn’t matter that much, but was helpful to him because he took a lot of CS/EE stuff first year. Then again, it is far from a lot of other classes. Trade-offs. The food is supposed to be the best dorm food, whatever that means, but that is what they say. As a note, a traditional dorm may always be more social than suite style, but for him, the group bathroom had zero appeal, and he didn’t want to chance a party dorm. They knew/hung out with a lot of other people from their floor, so it was perfect amount of social for him. Had a ton of conference room/private areas to retreat to study in.

The most amazing part of USC housing is their matching of room mates. All 8 in his suite were perfect. Similar and well match goals/lifestyles but different majors - just enough to keep it interesting. All STEM majors, but varied greatly within STEM. They remain best friends and future business partners, and are still living together just with an expanded group now. So A&S had a lot of all kinds of majors which was cool, but they tend to group a suite by similar majors.

Heads up - Parkside IRC - totally different, no one talks to each other there, not even hello in the elevator. Very odd.