<p>Hi!</p>
<p>I am a Trustee’s Scholar seriously considering going to Boston University. I am from Texas, and the only opportunity I will have to go home is Thanksgiving and Christmas. Do a lot of people go home on the weekends? I don’t want to end up lonely in a mostly empty dorms on the weekends. </p>
<p>The UHC Honors Dorms - how loud are they? I go to bed at 10 pm and am up at 5 am (since I am a training athlete). I really, really, <em>really</em> don’t want to live in a place with loud parties or one that won’t let me sleep enough to keep my training schedule.</p>
<p>Also, does anyone have any experience with the Turkish department?</p>
<p>Thanks!
BTW - I am comparing Vanderbilt (full ride), University of Texas Plan II Honors and Boston University UHC/Trustee’s Scholarship</p>
<p>Congrats on your Trustee scholarship! I received the MLK scholarship and I absolutely love it here.
No, people definitely do not go home on the weekends… even though a LOT of people that go to BU are from Mass, they don’t go home because there is so much to do on the weekends (like parties, events, go into boston, etc…) - so don’t worry about that. </p>
<p>I don’t know about the honors college housing, but the Trustee housing (which is a brownstone house on baystate road) is great but I wouldn’t recommend living there freshman year because it will be harder to meet new people (not impossible though…). I got the option of living in the Common Ground House on baystate road as a part of the MLK scholarship but I didn’t live there freshman year. If you end up in Warren Towers or West, I think you’ll be fine keeping your sleeping schedule but sometimes it may be hard to resist the temptation of hanging out with friends on your floor. Warren Towers and West are great though because you meet people so easily. In the end, you’ll have to choose whats more important - meeting LOTS of new people or keeping your training sched. </p>
<p>I hope that helps with things! good luck! =)</p>
<p>I think you’ll probably want to go the Bay State route if you can. Since you’re an athlete, you’ll probably be closest with your teammates anyway, so meeting people won’t be an issue. if sleep’s your priority, I’d avoid West/Warren. You can get used to it, but those walls are paper thin.</p>
<p>Oh man…you want people there on weekends (which they will be, nobody goes home), you just don’t want to see or hear them. Not sure what to tell you. It’s really sad how lame Trustee Scholars generally are.</p>
<p>Please don’t generalize the Trustee scholars. Believe me, there is a huge amount of diversity in their personalities and interests. There are definitely people who work hard and play hard as well as those who spend much more time studying/exploring the city/volunteering/etc. We’re each very different in my opinion, and people also change a lot as the years go on.</p>
<p>With that said, I lived in Boyd but have many close friends in the Towers UHC dorm. If you’re not comfortable with parties, pick Towers. Both dorms have partying, but Boyd is a brownstone, so they are given more responsibility/freedom by the RA than you would get in a freshman dorm like Towers. Towers also has parties/noise, but they keep the noise level under tight control because RAs patrol floors at night, etc. In the end, you’ll find people who like to party and those who don’t in both dorms for Trustees. I love Boyd, but I’m rather extroverted and made a lot of friends both inside the dorm and out. Both dorms are rather tightknit specialty communities, so if you want a community, it’s there in both cases. I’d personally recommend Towers if you’re worried about noise and want a more traditional freshman experience, though I love Boyd and have no regrets about my decision. Awesome people in both dorms. PM me for any other info/questions - see you in fall!</p>
<p>Yeah, you definitely don’t have to worry about people being gone for the weekends. I live in MA but never go home on weekends. After the first semester of freshman year, I even stay at BU for long weekends. I am super involved between academics, extracurriculars, and my social life. Honestly, I love being in the city and my life at BU. </p>
<p>Towers should be fine for you. I never lived there but it isn’t that crazy.</p>