Freshman Housing

Hitch123
Sun, 05 Dec 2010 20:14:06 +0000

The commons system was intended to and does create a sense of community for incoming freshmen. In addition, all freshmen are required to take a writing-intensive seminar and are placed in the same commons with their seminar classmates, so that creates another connection. Many freshmen are in Battell which is a pretty basic dorm and the least impressive one at Middlebury. But a lot of freshmen like it because the long halls of 2 person rooms lead to more socializing than the suites. Ross commons is beautiful and 1/5 of the freshmen are there. Some dorms have suites— sometimes with single rooms in a cluster which some freshmen like.