<p>My son is a Hartt '07 viola performance BM grad, and was there in a double major program academic years Sept '02 through May '07, so info might be a bit dated.</p>
<p>Laundry facilities are in each dorm, quality and operational status vary considerably, as does best time to use.</p>
<p>Hawk Hall just opened this academic year. There used to be a series of photos on the website. I have no idea of that building’s layout; I do believe it has central air.</p>
<p>The older freshmen dorms (The Complexes) went through a complete gut and refurbish the summer of '06. I haven’t been inside since that redo. “Only B, D, E and F Complexes have air conditioning.” per the website.</p>
<p>There are limited AC units in Regents Park and the Village, and are reserved or allocated based on health needs. Park River has central air.</p>
<p>Beds had always been twin extra longs, mattresses are not the greatest. You could check with ResLife if you want/need specific specs. Per son, they were serviceable, and varied from year to year, some better than others.
(Off topic, but he was at Shenandoah for Shenandaoh Performs last year and the bed he had killed his back; it took him a week to recover.)</p>
<p>Standard furniture per student includes bed, desk, dresser. Suites also had a kitchen type table/chairs, but no additional common furniture for the suite. Suites with kitchens had a full size fridge, stove. Standard dorm rooms do not supply mini fridge; it was bring your own or rent one. Same with microwave.</p>
<p>If you’re familiar with institutional food service purveyors, UHartford uses Aramark. Food was “ok”, nothing special on a par with typical college dining experience. The wife and I had a few meals there, some better than others. I wasn’t too happy with the costs of the meal plan, nor the parameters. His particular schedules made access limited on many days, and ended up doing a lot of a la carte eating, sucking up his allocated “dining dollars” fairly quickly. This got better atfer freshman year, when he had a suite with kitchen and microwave. Cost us a bit more to supply food, but offset was less eating/ordering out on our dime.</p>
<p>Bathrooms/showers in the suites were 2 full for the four and six occupancies, 1 full for the two person units. The dorm style housing had hall units only.</p>
<p>The transportation to and from Handel Arts Center will probably be by campus shuttle bus. I imagine a bus schedule will be posted, if not already up on the website.</p>