Housing: Honors vs Residential College

jen101
Tue, 04 Feb 2014 03:30:41 +0000

Well, first I’ll say that, as a student in both programs, if you join the RC you have to live in EQ, and you should only join the RC if you are really interested…the intensive language requirement, especially, is no joke. :)

Otherwise:
I’m in both programs, living in EQ right now. I can’t say much about SQ because it’s closed this year for renovations and I don’t know what it’s going to look like next year. I know the dining hall is going to be huge (more than twice the capacity as EQ, I think, like…450 vs. 950 people) and the first floor/basement are going to be renovated, but I don’t think they’re going to be doing much to the rooms. They’re redoing the bathrooms but not adding A/C to student rooms, which is a huge con for about the first month and a half of school.

As for EQ: the building is big (but smaller than SQ), some halls are co-ed, others are single sex. The floors are co-ed, so even if you’re in a single sex hall there are almost certainly people of the other sex nearby. The dining hall is nice, a bit too small, but food is good. There’s an adjustable thermostat in all rooms. Bathrooms are nice; there are men, women, and gender neutral community ones. There are lots of study spaces and classrooms in the basement/first floor that hold RC classes and various discussion sections for LSA classes. As for your question about honors classes: the honors program isn’t residential, so no, there aren’t classes in SQ, just in other LSA buildings.

Hopefully that helps.