Housing options

bluirinka
Mon, 06 Jun 2005 20:08:14 +0000

oh, i definitely wanted all-frosh housing. I’m a very outgoing person and one of the things i’m looking forward to most is meeting amazing, interesting new people. I figure that freshmen, not yet having established a set group of friends, will be a lot more willing to be social and forge friendships. I feel as though if I were in a mostly-sophomore dorm, I wouldn’t make nearly as many friends because the upperclassmen already HAVE friends.

So I asked for Tilton/Houston, and actually wrote in, “Tilton, please!” because i heard that it’s smaller, and I’m from a really small New Jersey suburb and love the community feel. Also, Tilton is closer to Dewick, which is the bigger dining hall and has THE most amazing food. It’s like a restaurant in there. Carmichael is also tasty, but not anywhere near Dewick’s level. I also really liked our tour guide, and he said that Tilton was amazing and he loved every minute of living there.

Later I met this guy from the next town over who just finished freshman year at Tufts, and he said that Houston was definitely better, because “it’s all about uphill.” Apparently uphill has a better social scene…so who knows? i’m sure either Tilton or Houston will be beyond awesome. The only thing I regret is that I can only have one roommate. My favorite living arrangement is suite-style; i’m secretly terrified that my roommate will end up being some antisocial suicidal girl that I can’t relate to (i’m out there and super-positive, lol)…but hopefully, even if i get a less-than-stellar roommate, the social atmosphere of frosh living will throw tons of cool people my way.

and that’s my little speech for today :-D

sidebar: has ANYONE gotten their email addresses yet? I feel as though all my friends at school have gotten theirs already.

OOH, Edited to Add: Another reason I chose Tilton is because of the downhill location in another sense. When I went to Tufts for the weekend, I was staying in Houston, and would be hanging out with kids from Downhill, then forced to trudge ALL the way back up to Houston, uphill. I think that it’s better to live downhill and have to walk uphill in the morning, when you’re semi-fresh, as opposed to when you’re tired as hell and falling off your feet at night from god-knows-whatever-you’ve-been-out-doing. That’s just my reasoning though :-D