houston hall and tilton hall

bluirinka
Wed, 02 Aug 2006 16:15:04 +0000

haha ignited, you DID cover a few points.

I lived in South Hall and I’m living there again this year! It’s amazing. I cannot stress enough how amazing private lockable bathrooms are (and not just for what my fave RA called “conjugal showers”, lmao.) Just that you can go in there, lock the door, and shower/brush teeth/etc in peace.

South has two types of doubles and a bunch of singles. Corner room doubles are bigger than the regular kind - the closets don’t have drawers, they’re just spaces in the wall that have a pole to hang things on and a shelf on top, but they’re pretty nice. In corner rooms, the closets are on this small “foyer” that separates the door from the room, and in non-corner rooms there are two closets on either side of the entrance.

It’s the biggest dorm. It can be confusing at first but after a while you realize that it’s one long corridor, with three halls at right angles (like this: |_|). It’s really nice and clean compared to dorms like Hodgdon, and doesn’t smell bad, which many do, lol. Some people get annoyed with the colors (purple, green, pink, etc) but it’s better than the gross greys and browns you see elsewhere on campus haha. I LOVE South to death, and I only hope you’re not on the first floor hahaha. The 2nd floor has one hallway all boys, one coed, and one all girls. Third and fourth are coed throughout, but the 4th floor has slanted ceilings so the rooms are smaller and sometimes uncomfortable. Plus it’s annoying to have to lug your laundry up five staircases, lol. There’s an elevator that you can use during move-in. And the desks have drawers (three) but you’re also given a chest-of-drawers, which are taller than the desks except on the 4th floor b/c of the slanted ceilings.

Congrats on South!