Court Kay Bauer Community

alamode
Sat, 19 Jun 2010 00:43:27 +0000

first, CKB and Mews are set up nearly EXACTLY the same way. its kind of weird, actually. the only difference is that CKB is all connected and they have a skybridge and all that fun stuff.

a CKB or Mews “suite” is not a real “suite” like you’re thinking about it, it’s not like a common room with 4 adjoining rooms or anything. it’s really more of a “nook” in the hallway with 4 doors–double, double, single, bathroom.

you share a bathroom with your suitemates and thats about all. you might meet your suitemates first, and perhaps go to lunch with them a few times, but it completely depends upon you whether you want to be good friends with them. i know some people who are friends with everyone in their suite, some people who are friends with one other person in their suite, and myself, i wasn’t really friends with anyone in my suite but we were more just acquaintances and i think this tends to be the typical.

it’s really the exact same thing is a regular dorm hall, one long hallway with lots of rooms, its just that every four rooms are set into nooks off the side about 2 feet off the main hall. the only dorm that is more social is donlon. and the reason donlon is more social is mostly because of its shape–its kind of like a triangle-ish figure (usually referred to as the “thong shaped building”) basically, the shape of the building ensures that there is no such thing as the “end of the hall” because it is one continuos shape.

anyway, ckb and mews are def quieter than donlon, but they’re basically a typical dorm experience, except really nice and you get your own bathroom.