Honors College

GT3000
Thu, 15 Dec 2005 15:20:41 +0000

foster quad is not all for international students. it is a regular group of dorms in the NW neighborhood! the global village is one of the buildings that makes up foster quad. im telling you, though, from what i knew last year, many international students live in the global village. the rest of foster is the same as briscoe and mcnutt. theyre all party-type dorms!

now, the central neighborhood is a little different. i actually lived in wright for a little while my first semester, but moved out to live with a friend in briscoe. i found wright very, very boring. many students agreed, many students disagreed. the atmosphere in wright is very quiet- the rooms are smaller and there are less people/floor. one of the reasons i left IU was because the place is so cliqued. you can definitely see huge differences in the types of students that live in certain dorms. for example, when i lived in wright, my friends and i would go out on a friday night and the dorm would be DEAD. there would never be anyone outside hanging out or waiting for people. when we’d walk towards the NW neighborhood to meet friends, students would be everywhere outside the dorms meeting up with people and hanging around. not to say peopel in the central 'hood dont have a good time, but you can definitely tell NW is much more social than central. no one in wright ever wanted to do anything- school spirit was so low!! my RA would always desperately try to organize get togethers or sport tournaments with other sections in wright, but it ALWAYS fell through or only a couple people showed up! around homecoming time, we had the worst decorations because nobody cared to help out! having a social atmosphere is very important, i believe- especially if you dont know anyone at the school!!

however, right next to wright is teter (still central.) i knew about 10-12 people who lived there and it was a very well-rounded dorm. not too rowdy, not too boring. at HC their decorations were great! everyone i knew who lived there liked it a lot and always said “teter’s tight.”