<p>bjrwrh – Bronson has rooms that are the same as all the other Keeney Quad rooms, but is closer to the Ratty than many others. The views are either of the health center, the upper Keeney courtyard or Brown Beach (if it’s still called that – I graduated in '84) – the historic building on a large grassy hill behind Keeney Quad (which used to be called West Quad when I was there).</p>
<p>Archibald, tell me all you know about ARCHIBALD!!!</p>
<p>supertara, Keeney is Keeney, basically, and what matters most is what floor you’re on.</p>
<p>Archibald, Bronson, Everett, Jameson, Mead and Poland are the six connected dorms that make up the figure 8 that is Keeney Quad. Archibald is the closest to the corner of Brown and Benevolent Streets, thus closest to the Ratty and Wayland Arch. (There used to be a food vending machine snack area at that corner on the first floor of Archibald – don’t know if it’s still there – we called it Machine City.</p>
<p>Back when I went there, and may be the same nowadays, the freshman units were divided so there were three units per floor, with Archibald and Bronson one unit (per floor), Everett and Poland one unit (the middle sections of the figure 8), and Jameson and Mead one unit. I was in Jameson 323 as a freshman, and had great views of beautiful sunsets out the window looking down the hill over Providence. I had a single in Everett sophomore year overlooking Brown Beach. There used to be a lounge for each unit, except my freshman year in a few units they turned the lounges into triples to deal with overcrowding (more folks than expected matriculated that year, apparently). The following year, I think those rooms returned to being lounges.</p>
<p>Keeney Quad’s a great location and very social place to live as a freshman. Folks would hang out in the halls talking long into the night. 25 years later, I’m still close with some of those folks, and enjoy seeing the others at reunions even though I don’t keep in touch otherwise.</p>
<p>What do you know about Littlefield dorm? I read that over winter break they house all the student athletes there. Is that true?</p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<p>Hey, I was assigned to Littlefield hall too! I live in Holland and so I guess my mailing came a little late… I only received it today.
So far, after looking over this CC website for about 2 hours (typically freshmen-thirsty for new info on the dorms and stuff lol) I noticed that Littlefield Hall wasn’t really mentioned that many times. I only know that it’s supposed to be this “private” place since JFK jr. lived there in the 80’s (I think it was MTM who wrote that- mentioning how there was this not-so-accurate research thing going on about how the economically privileged kids get “better” places… like JFK jr. and the heiress of Versace). I also read what you said about the student athletes on the website… and I don’t really understand it. I mean, does that mean that we’re all supposed to empty our rooms for them during the winter or something? Because that would seriously SUCK.
Could somebody plz tell me more about Littlefield Hall? If you can, also tell me about stuff like bathrooms (more like public restrooms, or shared between 2 rooms… etc?) Thanks!!!</p>
<p>Oh, and just kind of random but annoying thing…
I looked up “Littlefield Hall” both at the Brown website and Google.com and found it a little weird that I couldn’t find any pics at all. I mean, there was this one little picture that Brown website provided with a brief description, but I also wanted to see the inside, godammit! lol Is it normal that these pics of residence halls and dorms are virtually non existent on the internet? I dunno, maybe it’s just me :p</p>
<p>Littlefield has a great location - right on Lincoln Field. I have friends who lived there and loved it. Its normal for there not to be pictures of the inside of the dorms up. For some reason floorplans aren’t working currently. Sorry I’ve been slow answering questions but I haven’t been aroudn computers much. Returning to work Monday and then I’ll be back in action.
Love,
MTM</p>
<p>sorry to be another annoying rising freshman asking about dorms, but i remember visiting new pembroke during ADOCH and thinking it was a really ugly dorm from the outside and hoping i wouldn’t get it. with my luck, of course, im in new pembroke 3, and i was wondering what you could tell me about it on the inside, whether its as undesirable as it looks, and if its true that NP had some of the better parties last year?</p>
<p>thanks.</p>
<p>the NPs are hideous on the otuside, in my opinion (though they won some kind of progressive architecture award when they were built), but have pretty big rooms, a great location right on Thayer and near the gate, a gym, the Vdub, and the OMAC, and had a reputation for having some of the best parties last year.</p>
<p>thanks, and just for the record, my CAP is ES11, and I’m not in Hope…</p>
<p>This might be a stupid question, but I really have no idea what I want to pursue as a career, nor what I want to major in or anything like that. Does anybody go to Brown like that? I was thinking I could take general courses freshmen year (even though there’s no core curriculum) and try to figure it out from there.</p>
<p>Of course, and that sounds like a great idea. You might also want to talk to people, both adults and students, about what they are interested in, what their careers are, and why they like them.</p>
<p>Sweet! Passed 10,000!</p>
<p>How’s the international diversity at Brown?</p>
<p>1 in 10 students are international, something like 70-80 countries are represented at any given point (at graduation they fly the flags of each country of a graduating student)</p>
<p>That’s right. Its among the highest in the Ivy League, I think Brown does a good job of promoting itself to high school students overseas. International students are also very integrated into the rest of the student body and don’t self-segragate at all, in my experience.</p>
<p>I visited Brown’s International section. I couldnt find both Jordan and Iraq in the represented international student-body!!:(</p>
<p>and can u answer these questions plz</p>
<ol>
<li>Whats the name of Brown’s newspaper</li>
<li>What is the name of the largest library and smallest one.</li>
<li>Is their a pond in Brown?</li>
<li>What is the name of the Brown’s team?</li>
<li>Whats the name of the biggest place to study and do work?</li>
<li>The name of a medium size-House(dorms) and its corresponding dining hall name?</li>
</ol>
<p>IHS -
Sorry about the Jordan/Iraq thing. I believe the Prince of Jordan went to Brown in the 80s, so if we don’t have any Jordanians currently at least we had a very important one back then. Also sorry about the no Iraqis but until very recently our country wasn’t exactly friendly with that government. The Shah of Iran’s kids did go to Brown however, and he spoke on campus the year after he was ousted…</p>
<p>Your other questions…
- Brown has several student publications, but the two biggest are the Brown Daily Herald and the College Hill Independant (“the Indy”). The Indy just recently won a bunch of great awards. Also there is an administration published newspaper called the George Street Journal. There are a bunch of other student ones also that are less prestigious/important.
- Largest…either the John D. Rockefeller Jr. Library (“The Rock”) or the Sciences Library (“The SciLi”). The smallest is probably the Annemarie Brown Memorial Library, which also serves as a tomb for Annemarie Brown and her husband, their coffins are in one of the rooms. Creepy.
- No, but there is a river at the bottom of College Hill, a pondish thing at Waterplace Park, and a huge waterfront area and the Naragansett Bay about a 15 or 20 minute walk away from campus.
- The Brown Bears, though the Men’s Ultimate Frisbee team (which won nationals this year) are also known as the Brownian Motion or the Catfish.
- Probably the Rock or the SciLi. Possibly Faunce House.
- Dorms don’t have their own dining halls. The two MAIN dining halls are The Sharpe Refectory (“The Ratty”) and the V-Dub. There are many dorms that I don’t have the energy to list.</p>
<p>Hope that helped.</p>