Housing Rankings

wattsski
Sat, 04 Jun 2005 00:50:54 +0000

CRC is has a fun and bit more rowdy mix of artsy majors. Great place to be if you are a Comm. kid or in Medill. Especially if you are an RTVF major so you have friends to be in your films. PARC seems to be a bit isolated. I know some really cool kids who live there though. Not a party dorm. Slivka is like a hotel. If you want to live somewhere really nice live there. It also has a cafe in it that is open until 2am during the week. In terms of social life Slivka tends to be one of the quitest dorms on campus and is even in a feud with SigEp the frat that is accross the sidewalk from them. Slivka kids call in parties for being too loud a lot. However, there are some party kids in Slivka too. 1835 Hinman is also a more social dorm in general. If you live in CRC or PARC the suites aren’t really that suitey. Most people keep the doors between the suites open so that it is more like one long hall with a couple of lounges in between. There is a lot of bathroom sharing, including the ocassional girl in the guys bathroom. Slivka has true suites. You open one door and then there are three rooms and a large lounge. Slivka also has awesome kitchen facilities if you like to cook or think you’ll be selling baked goods as a fund raiser. I’m not sure about 1835’s suites since I’ve never been in the rooms, just the dining hall.

A word of advice to all. Don’t apply to live on North Campus if you are not a science/engineer person unless you want to live in Bobb or the freshman quad, it makes it much more difficult to make friends and it’s really far away from Evanston and most of your classes on South Campus.

North Dorms according to niceness in facilities
1.Slivka
2. Ayers CCI
3. Sargent… but it’s really quiet
4. Small single sex dorms and CCS, they’re in old frat houses so the rooms are pretty big
5. Bobb/Muchulloch rooms are small and dark but have lots of really big cabanets and most kids don’t care anyway, they’re there for the social scene
6. Freshman Quad houses

South Campus

1. Willard. Walk in closets and fairly large rooms

2. Chapin because of size

3. Allison because pretty large and very social. Lots of second years want to move to Allison

4. Not sure… CRC, ISRC, and PARC have the same layout. They all have really small rooms. Shepard- Decent. Smaller rooms. Sucks if you live in “the cave” where 11 girls share one bathroom and are isolated from the rest of the dorm by the entire basement. All the facilities are in the basement. Lots of music majors live there because they have practice rooms. Fairly social dorm however.SMQ/NMQ -small rooms but decent facilities. Really small so many people there say there is a lot of drama.

5. Jones. Lots and lots of dramatic theater kids, really small rooms, almost lost on the corner of campus.
Small houses south… I have no idea.