Best place to live??

somebodynew
Mon, 19 Feb 2007 19:25:29 +0000

Honors kids have the best dorms out of the freshman. (Sure, Denton’s not in a great location, but you do get used to it. Unless you have class in Susquehanna…then you’re SOL.) It’s a max 20 minute walk to classes (and that’s Susquehanna), you can get to most places within 15 minutes or less. The rooms are much more spacious than the floor plans make them out to be, and even better if you rearrange them from how they originally are set up. Trust me. And the lounges are very nice (at least in Denton and Ellicott). Also, the North Campus Diner is in Ellicott community (bastards), which is extremely important, and it’s also really close to the CRC. A lot of people on my floor want to move into La Plata or Hagerstown (the dorms near Ellicott) for sophomore year because of those reasons.

I’ve heard Wicomico (honors humanities dorm) is the worst out of all the honors freshman dorms. Also, for freshman year, I would advise against Anne Arundel and Queen Anne’s. I hear it’s really quiet there b/c it’s a lot of older students, so you can’t meet as many people. I know of at least three people who switched from North Hill to Denton because they wanted a livelier/more connected dorm atmosphere.

This is my dorm room in Denton (cleaned up for parents weekend in October)
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Only about 3/5 of the room actually made it into the picture. I know it looks pretty bare, but now we’ve got more posters and a dartboard, so it’s pretty sweet.