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beammeup4
Wed, 12 Apr 2006 00:53:22 +0000

I can help answer this one even though I don’t live in Parkside.

Both EVK and Parkside get repetitive, so after a few weeks you can pretty much guess what both places will be serving for lunch and dinner. As Parkside is a International residential college, Parkside serves a variety of (poor attempts at) “international cuisine”. EVK has mainly American cuisine, but they have a mexican station and a pasta station and sometimes they serve internationally-inspired food. I used to eat at Parkside for lunch and EVK for dinner (since the meal plan only allows you to eat at your nearest DC for dinner), and they both got old after a while (I found that putting food on individual plates doesn’t necessarily make it better =)

Thinking about it, all the dorms are against the street. Parkside is against Exposition, and if the street noise doesn’t drive you nuts, the construction of Parkside II might. Flour is against Jefferson, and the other dorms are against Figueroa and are also affected by construction noise of Galen Center. Overall, all the dorms are about an equal walk from where most of your classes will be your first year (VKC, GFS, THH), however Leavey Library is on the New/North/Birnkrant side of campus, so if you choose Parkside, plan for about a 10 minute walk to Leavey and/or have Campus Cruiser speed-dialed into your cell.

Sorry, a Parkside resident will have to answer your question about building activities…