<p>how far are the residences? i have checked the map, but i don’t know which ones are the residence housing :(, and could someone please tell me which buildings are the athletic facilities?</p>
<p>I’d say your best bet is the interactive map: <a href=“http://www.dartmouth.edu/~rc/campusmap/[/url]”>http://www.dartmouth.edu/~rc/campusmap/</a></p>
<p>which highlights the residence halls if you scroll down on the little toolbar. The furthest residences, to my knowledge, are the freshman River dorms (aaaall the way down by the Connecticut River) and maybe The Lodge, which houses sophomores.</p>
<p>There are several athletic facilities all in the same area. Most people use the West Gym in the Kresge Gym to work out on (I think) E. Wheelock Street. It’s pretty crappy now but they’re doing renovation on it and it should be all ready by next fall.</p>
<p>thanks :), i found the other maps that weren’t too help, they just had names of the buildings -_-, btw, thanks alot</p>
<p>try this one</p>
<p><a href=“Campus Map | Dartmouth”>Campus Map | Dartmouth;
<p>The river cluster (river dorms, tree houses, channing cox) are probably farthest away from everything. However there is a bus that stops over there that will take across campus in about 5 minutes (the trick is fetting the time table and being out in time to catch the bus). EW is near the gym but is pretty far from classes.</p>
<p>If you come in as a transfer, you willl not have much selection in terms of where you live because those letters go out after room draw is done, so you get to select from the leftover openings. You can go into room draw winter term when you will have a little more luck.</p>
<p>anticipating the next question…</p>
<p>don’t worry, first year students keep their room the entire year.</p>
<p>But because of the new housing additions, a letter was just sent out informing us that housing will be guranteed to all sophomores, so all transfers will at least have on campus housing.</p>
<p>Will tuck mall and mclaughlin cluster both be finished?</p>
<p>Overall, that’s wonderful, but won’t sophmores still be at the bottom of the food chain as far as room draw is concerned?
Juniors and seniors will get first crack at the new housing</p>
<p>EWC actually is pretty far, maybe farther from thayer dining than River cluster. But since my first class is in Dartmouth Hall, it’s just fine.
But even you live in the most remote residential hall, it only takes you a couple of minutes at most to walk to your classes and dining places and the library.</p>
<p>williamzhang,</p>
<p>Would you recommend EWC? Are you happy there? Do you have your own bedroom? Or are most bedrooms doubles?</p>
<p>I am a current sophomore and I lived in East Wheelock as a freshman, so I can weigh in on this. I decided not to re-apply to Wheelock for my sophomore year, but this was more a personal preference rather than because the dorm was objectively bad. The rooms really are huge (the biggest on campus), and in 3 of the 4 clusters each room has its own bathroom. It also is the newest dorm (not counting McLaughlin and the Tuck Mall cluster currently under construction) and is kept nice and clean. As well, despite what you hear about people in East Wheelock being anti-social, that for me was not true in the least. My floor was very cohesive, with people hanging out in each others rooms, going to frats together, etc. In fact I still keep hang out sometimes with some of my old floormates. My reasons for leaving were because the dorm is in fact quite far (especially difficult in the winter when it’s so cold outside your fingers feel like they are about to fall off as you walk halfway across campus to your 9) and I wanted to be closer to classes and my frat. Also, I felt that if anything the dorm was TOO convenient and it was spoiling me. I mean I never had to share my bathroom at home, and I felt that part of the purpose at college is to get used to sharing bathrooms, etc and overcoming that “icky” feeling because you never know what kind of conditions you’ll come across in your life after college and where you’ll have to live or whatever before you strike it rich.</p>
<p>1ofeach: What Xanoto said is most true. I live in a 3 room quad, that’s 2 double-bedrooms+1 huge living room. It’s really huge, and people of the floor often gather here, so you won’t feel the anti-social atmosphere. If they disturb you, you can just walk into the even bigger study-room a few steps away from your room. People often go to dinner together(but not for me because I have time conflicts with most others for my first quarter here), but actually you can achieve this purpose elsewhere. The roooms are cozy enough, and you can certainly get singles–there are plenty of them in EWC.
I stand neutral as to the question “do you love it” because the plan of the room I’m living now is quite similar to my former university in China. I’m so accustomed to the style and way of life that I have grown somewhat dumb…however if you are a prospective student, I recommend you to apply for EWC.
Admittedly, EWC is a bit far from the main facilities. I would often become lazy at the thought of the long walk to the library or to foodstop/CVS, the convenient food shops on the main street. Coldness is not a concern to me. So far, I only wear a shirt when being outside. To me, Hanover is really a warm place…</p>
<p>I live in the River, and I really don’t mind the walk. Then again, the real cold hasn’t set in yet, I guess.</p>
<p>Thanks for the replies. I think my D will apply for EWC</p>
<p>I visited campus over the summer and the distances did not seem far at all. I thought the campus was a perfect size…not massive but not super tiny either. Some schools I visited had dorms way out of the way of anything else, but I didn’t find that to be the case at Dartmouth. It seemed like most of the academic, library, dinig hall, etc. buildings were centrally located w/ the dorms for the most part making up the perimeter on campus.</p>