Is ANYONE going to Knox

lindalana
Sat, 01 Apr 2006 20:21:52 +0000

Onward from what I have seen dorms are suites- there usually 8 people/ four double rooms/ coming into one common living room. Living room is about 20X20 feet and double rooms are 15X17 or so. They will have one bathroom to share and two showers. There is kitchen in basement of dorms and laundry room. While most dorms are not newly built/ there is no sprinkles system/ it is pretty comfy and plenty of space as far as dorms go. About 50 % do not have air conditioning but with our weather it could be only problem for about 2 weeks early fall and most students take care of it with fans. Laundry rooms have irons and I think ironing boards, also wires for some clothes that need to be hand washed or dried.
I believe first year students are placed together in the room but they could be spaced among others. There is not much of coed bathrooms but it is allowed if students are ok’d it. Last year about 30-40 upper classmen were allowed to live in apartments nearby mostly as an experiment and because last year class ended up being somewhat bigger that they expected. Usually10-20 kids change their mind over the summer but last year they did not so apartments were allowed. I also know there couple of fraternity houses and no sorority to live in. There also few theme houses which I did not see from inside but from outside they looked as regular residential houses. Right now they have 1205 students and they have no plans to significantly increase students number/ at least thats what their president says/
I do hope that Kelomaa will give us few more pointers.