<p>Ahh… I still don’t know which type of housing I want!
I was just reading about the Townhouse Communities and loved the layout…</p>
<p>Will report more on each house as I write my thoughts down…
Help me decide today/tonight!</p>
<p>Alright, here we go:</p>
<p>Court-Kay-Bauer Hall: Faculty = CS person (my major)
Weekly study break socials
Newest residences
Room is big enough
[Housing</a> - Floor Plans](<a href=“Residential Life | Student & Campus Life | Cornell University”>Residential Life | Student & Campus Life | Cornell University)</p>
<p>Mews: Faculty = None of my interests
Appel Commons community center(?)
Nothing else really…
Room is big enough
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<p>Clara Dickson Hall: Faculty = None of my interests
Brownie night (yum)
Beds are right next to each other (awkward?)
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<p>Mary Donlon Hall: Faculty = Marketing (Economics related/maybe minor)
Judicial board (?)
Room is really tight (no closet?)
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<p>High Rise 5: Faculty = Economics
RPCC
Where are the showers/bathrooms?
Suite like? Can’t tell from pictures
Beds are right next to each other
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<p>Jameson: Faculty = Economics
Same as High Rise, really
Suite like?
Beds are right next to each other
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<p>Low Rise 6: Faculty = ECE (not my major but still related)
Lounge with fireplace
Suite like? Can’t tell from pictures
Where are the showers/bathrooms?
Beds are right next to each other
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<p>Low Rise 7: Faculty = ECE
Like Low Rise 6
Longue
Suite like?
Where are the showers/bathrooms?
Beds right next to each other
[Housing</a> - Floor Plans](<a href=“Residential Life | Student & Campus Life | Cornell University”>Residential Life | Student & Campus Life | Cornell University)</p>
<p>Townhouse Community: No Faculty
Bathroom/Showers located in each townhouse? (says so for the two floored ones, not for the one floored ones)
Independence yet roommates still
Seems really big
Suite life
Kitchen (save some money with cooking)
Highest fee (8820)
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<p>Based on what I see, I guess it’s going to probably be the Townhouse Communities…
Offer some of your own advice and I’ll see where it goes.</p>
<p>And, just to add some information…
Crappers, I thought I had to resend my application to Cornell - just went from an application sent date at 4/9/11 to today… Dammit.
Cornell isn’t first come first serve, is it…
Is it!? :'(</p>
<p>I have another housing question!</p>
<p>So I pretty much just want a coed residence hall. So on building preferences, I put residence hall as Choice 1, and I left all the others blank. Is that a bad idea?</p>
<p>Wait… by looking closer, I think I may have answered my own question. The building preference section is apparently optional.</p>
<p>“If you select Residence Hall, you will be randomly assigned to a North Campus residence hall.”</p>
<p>Alrighty then. I just decided I’d post it in case anyone else was wondering that.</p>
<p>pretty sure it’s not first come first serve on housing…
also you can’t control which place you’ll get among most of those dorms. I can’t imagine how the faculty-person would matter. maybe it’d be cool to meet one outside of your discipline, because you’ll become familiar with the ones in your major soon enough!
also everyone walks to and uses Appel, since it has the mailboxes for lots of dorms and a dining hall.
if you don’t like where the beds are, you can move them around. I have not seen doubles where people have their beds side by side, because I agree that that would be awkward.</p>
<p>I am not saying that those things are bad, just that I don’t know what they are (anything with a question mark by it means this otherwise if noted).
If the faculty are people I study under, then it would be really easy to find them to ask questions.</p>
<p>Anyone who lives in a Townhouse Community tell me what it’s like?</p>
<p>The disadvantages of the townhouses seem to be: you pay the single room rate for a double, and they are farther than the other dorms. The advantages are the nice amount of space, full kitchen, etc. shared by 4 people. You could make up the higher room rate if you used the full kitchen to actually cook meals and got a low-end meal plan, but would your really do that?</p>
<p>I might.
I infact might.</p>
<p>Also the townhouse apts. are a little more self-contained. You know your roommates and maybe next door neighbors, but they have less of a community feel than the traditional dorms. And I know everyone says housing assignments are random, but the kid I know who sent in his deposit on May 1 ended up in the townhouses, and the ED legacy kids plus big time recruited athletes ended up in Court/Mews/Kay/Bauer. Perhaps a random occurrence…I know the plural of anecdote is not data.</p>
<p>Also, in re: the suites in the high./low rises, there is a bathroom for each suite. It might have two showers, and two sinks, but one toilet if I recall correctly. Each suite is two doubles and one or two singles, I think.</p>