Honors vs Scholars

ginab591
Sun, 30 Jan 2011 16:25:28 +0000

First off anyone who thinks North Campus dorms are better have never been to South Campus dorms…It’s a much nicer part of campus. Me and my friends joke that north campus is where they shove all the freshman so they can be embarassing alcoholics together because they don’t want you messing with the nice part of campus. Spend a weekend night sitting on the quad and then try to spent the same amount of time sitting by, say, the north campus diner and see if you can even fit the difference in obnoxiousness level on the same scale.

Anne Arundel is technically South Campus, but it’s on North Hill, which is the farthest North of the South Campus dorms (If you couldn’t tell from the location) near Queen Anne’s, Dorchester, and St. Mary’s. (Dorchester houses writer’s house and global communities, St. Mary’s is the language house) Honors students can request to live there, (though I highly suggest Queen Anne’s over Anne Arundel) though I’ve noticed it’s heavily weighted towards B/K students and you have to request it. Even though a friend of mine says there’s a new living/learning program being hosted in one of them, but I can’t remember which.

Also of the South Campus dorms the one I hear repeated complaints about is Wicomico (Honors Humanities…and not saying anything about the freshman, but there is a definite trend lol) I personally live in the Caroline singles which are adjacent to Wicomico. The dorm isn’t super-nice, nor is it air conditioned, but the dorm is so unbelievably quiet and clean that it’s worth it. (There is one janitor for each floor, and the floors are about half the size of a high rise dorm’s. They are each here from about nine-four cleaning the same stretch of hallway. It’s honestly unbelievable how clean it is for a college park dorm) Plus the location is good for majors who are often on the mall or in Tawes, Art-Soc, etc. You’re right near route 1, and about five minutes from the strip mall with Dominoes, CVS, Chipotle etc. Panda and 7-11 are even closer.

As for the two dining halls: South Campus beats North Campus in breakfast/brunch and lunch (Pasta and Omlette Bar, plus Mexican and Stir Fry which is amazing) but fails miserably in the Late Night department. (No one can explain why it closes from 7-9 either) but Common’s shop is in the same building and has very convenient hours.

And note to everyone: Denton has been swearing they would have air conditioning for next fall since the year before I got here. (2008)