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<p>I highly recommend living in the UHC dorm if he plans on taking honors classes his freshman year. This is because they are combined (at least were, I may be wrong now) with the honors classes for non-engineering students (i.e. Honors Chem was taken by both Engineering and A&S students, honors physics, calc, etc.) so that he’d be around more of his classmates. Plus a lot of the honors engineers chose to live in UHC housing as opposed to the SPACE housing and I had UHC SPACE friends who admitted that they wish they had lived in UHC housing instead of SPACE, since they were always coming over to study and hang out anyways.</p>
<p>Also-- most UHC kids are not “nerds” they’re just students who are more focused on academics than anything else (i.e. at least 51% of focus = academics). I had friends who still went out, had fun, etc. In fact, we had a video game floor, movie floor, “party floor” (we turned our lounge into a giant carboard box maze at one point), etc. Plus at least for UHC the level of trust was HUGE. I never locked my door or laptop/valuables, left my textbook/calculator all over the building, etc. Best choice of my life to do UHC housing all three years I was on campus.</p>