East Coaster in Public Dorm?

sabnetwork
Thu, 10 Mar 2005 22:46:29 +0000

You will find this helpful. I asked a UW student who graduated from my east-coast high school. Her opinions were very helpful in my decision to avoid private dorms.

This was an AIM conversation, so please forgive her imperfections.





(me): how is towers?

(UW student): eh

(UW student): i almost lived there

(UW student): the atmosphere is diff

(UW student): if you want to be stuck in coastie mentality, that’s what the private dorms do to you

(UW student): you know, they’re stereotypically inhabited by new yorkers and such

(UW student): or snobby ppl who are richer etc

(me): yeah i see what you mean

(UW student): i know a few ppl who are decent from there but still

(UW student): i wouldn’t recommend it

(UW student): unless that’s the kind of place you want to be in

(me): i’ve heard they’re mostly east coast rich jews in private dorms

(UW student): haha yes

(UW student): not so much towers, but esp like the langdon and other places

(me): are you in chad?

(UW student): ya, i lived there my first two yrs

(UW student): i’m a jr now so i live in a house

(UW student): but i enjoyed chad a lot

(UW student): it makes transition into college rreally easy esp during the first few months

(UW student): bc they make everyone be friendly haha

(me): some say its a little cultish though?

(UW student): haha

(UW student): yes it is

(UW student): i mean it’s hardcord dorky

(UW student): lots of cheesie chad moments

(UW student): aka nerdbourne

(UW student): etc

(UW student): bc stereotypically ppl who live there are studious

(UW student): but this is my philosophy

(UW student): the hardcore partiers who don’t want to study and want to live in cesspools and have loud annoying neighbors 24/7 should go to southeast dorms

(UW student): the hardcore quiet ppl who never want to hear noise from a party and like to live farther away from state st (madison’s version of “harvard sq”) should go to lakeshore

(UW student): and the people who like a combination of both, who like their space to study and have downtime and choose to do what they want when they want, but who also can always go down the street to southeast dorm parties and other house parties etc should live at chad:-)

(UW student): the cafeteria is in the actual building so you don’t have to go outside like you do at southeast and lakeshore

(me): is bradley a good compromise for second choice?

(UW student): hm it might be, i know ppl who love bradley a lot

(UW student): i know lots of ppl who LOVE lakeshore

(UW student): bc it actually is close to a lot of class buildings

(me): lakeshore sounds too quiet for me

(UW student): it’s just farther away from state st

(UW student): but they also do have buses

(UW student): shuttles and such

(me): is sellery southeast or lakeshore?

(UW student): southeast

(UW student): i also know ppl fom sellery who loved it

(UW student): but they were like…you know those mad chill ppl who are cool with everything

(UW student): i put chad as #1

(UW student): it hink i put liz waters for second haha thank GOD that didn’t happen

(UW student): yeah

(me): but, if i do get stuck in ogg, would towers be a better alternative?

(UW student): i’m honestly not even sure towers would be any better

(UW student): ppl in general hate on the priv dorms

(UW student): bc there are some hardcore [annoying people] there

(UW student): not everyone there are [annoying people] but you know

(UW student): you get your earful of annoying rich jewish girls from NY who complain about everything and anything

(UW student): and are all on the jenny craig plan or whatev

(me): when reading the description of private dorm kids, it sounded like a description of [my boston-area suburban high school], but it sounds like that’s not the case

(UW student): haha yeah

(UW student): it’s not really the same

(UW student): i mean [my boston-area suburban high school] is snooty but the severity of coastie-ness in the priv dorms is usually pretty bad

(UW student): ppl [urinate] in the elevators like every night

(UW student): i don’t want to freak you out

(UW student): haha

(UW student): mostly it depends largely on your floormates