<p>Hey, you’re welcome!</p>
<p>Econ and IR classes seem to be all over (based on course locations listed online). As a firstie, you’ll be taking classes outside your major too, so you’ll be in different buildings anyway. The dorms on the green, Torrey, and Pearsons are closest to the buildings you’ll most likely be in for classes. The closest to the library are Pearsons and then probably Brigham and Safford.</p>
<p>Here is a map of the campus, if you want to check it out yourself: [Mount</a> Holyoke College :: Campus Map](<a href=“http://www.mtholyoke.edu/cic/map/index.shtml?pg=201]Mount”>http://www.mtholyoke.edu/cic/map/index.shtml?pg=201)</p>
<p>Based on what you’re saying, I suggest listing Pearsons or Mead. </p>
<p>Pearsons is closest to the library, very close to the academic buildings, and one of the largest on campus (around 140 students). It isn’t new (it was built in the late 1890s), but it is a beautiful dorm with really nice common rooms and hardwood floors. It is across the road with the admissions office, but obviously the location is still awesome. </p>
<p>Mead is also very nice, and while it was built only a few years after Pearsons, it was recently renovated. It has around the same number of students. Unfortunately, you’re twice as likely to get a triple in Mead, but there are also many doubles so it is just up to the luck of the draw. </p>
<p>On the other hand, if you really want a new dorm, list MacGregor or South New Dorm (which will have over 100 students, but with the North Dorm could feel bigger… though I’m not sure how that will work exactly). The new dorm (located by Pratt Hall FYI, since NewD is not on the map yet) and MacGregor are about equal distance from the class buildings and library. MacG is a bit closer to the main “block” of buildings and New Dorm a bit closer to Skinner. </p>
<p>I stayed overnight in MacG as a prospie and I can tell you from experience that the rooms are REALLY gorgeous. Seriously, they blew my mind. And MacG’s dining hall always has 4 different flavors of Edy’s ice cream! 
You won’t have the location of Pearsons, but it is still a pretty short walk to the academic buildings (less than 10 minutes? I’m not sure exactly). </p>
<p>The New Dorm, based on what I’ve read, has rooms with their own thermostats, really nice lighting, and awesome common spaces. Like MacG, the new dorm will have a few rooms with window seats (all of MacG’s rooms have them, so you’re only guaranteed one there). It sounds like it is going to be REALLY nice. The administration built it specifically to become the new “popular” dorm.</p>
<p>Anyway, it depends on whether you want a bigger dorm with a better location or a bigger new dorm with some cool amenities. You could always list a few choices on your housing forms. That way res life will have the chance to consider your second or third choice if your first choice is already filled.</p>