<p>just wondering if all the old-style dorms will be replaced by modern dorms in fall '10.</p>
<p>i don’t think so - not all of them, yet. they will have two new dorms open for next fall… the second phase continuation of the new South 40 House (aka Wohl) that opened this year, and another dorm that branches off that and will be part of Eliot. </p>
<p>Ruby was supposed to come down this coming summer but they delayed that by one more year bc of the economy.</p>
<p>there’s only three old freshman dorms left including Ruby. within the next couple years they are all supposed to be replaced by new ones though. they usually knock down one old dorm and build a new one in its place per year. there’s still several old upperclassmen dorms left… don’t know what’s happening with those… but most of the upperclassmen ones are newer, too.</p>
<p>this is the what the 40 looks like now, including the current construction, from the ResLife website: <a href=“Residential Life - Students”>Residential Life - Students;
<p>thank you very much for your response!</p>
<p>so do the modern dorms outnumber the old dorms by alot? or are they fairly even?</p>
<p>traditional dorms are pretty outnumbered now I think… maybe 3 old freshman dorms to 6 modern ones, or something like that? Not that the traditional dorms are bad or anything, especially if you want to have a common room for your suite and stuff ;)</p>
<p>wait, so exactly what is the difference between old and new dorms?</p>
<p>^For freshmen year, old dorms have hall style bathrooms. New dorms have bathrooms that you and your roommate only share with another room. That’s about it. Old dorms are somewhat cheaper.</p>
<p>Some people like to say the old dorms are more sociable, but I had an unbelievably social (modern) freshmen floor.</p>
<p>pretty much just what Johnson181 said, yeah. It’s not like you can’t tell that the old dorms were built a good while back or anything, but they’re still plenty large, and in better shape than the average dorm you’d find at a lot of schools. Not all the traditional dorms are layed out the same way (same is true of the modern dorms i guess), so it’s hard to pin down any real differences aside from the hall bathrooms… There’s not a whole lot of rhyme or reason to the housing assignments, either, so it’s a bit pointless to worry about it for your first year … after that you’ve got a lot more flexibility.</p>