<p>laser:</p>
<p>a) If I’m not mistaken, both the New Dorm (Alice Paul) and the New New Dorm (David Kemp) are air-conditioned.</p>
<p>b) As a general rule, freshmen and sophmores live in doubles. Juniors and Seniors live in singles. There are occasional exceptions to that.</p>
<p>c) All of the dorms have their pluses and minuses. Hard to say which are the best. Kinda depends what you like.</p>
<p>d) With very few exceptions, Swarthmore dorms have two bathrooms on each hall – one for men, one for women. There are floorplans here:</p>
<p>[Swarthmore</a> College :: Housing :: Dorm Profiles](<a href=“http://www.swarthmore.edu/x9777.xml]Swarthmore”>http://www.swarthmore.edu/x9777.xml)</p>
<p>e) Most unique thing? No theme housing. The housing lottery is designed to shuffle the student body every year. Swatties move from dorm to dorm. And the nature of each dorm tends to change a bit from year to year, sometimes dictated by RA assignments. The lottery is designed to equalize the four year total living exerience among all students based on a lottery point system. If you have a bad lottery pick as a sophmore you are more or less guaranteed a great pick in either your junior or senior years. You can usually live with a few close friends, but you will almost certainly meet new people in your dorm every year.</p>
<p>f) Other unique thing: Freshmen are mixed into regular dorms with upperclass students instead of being stuck in freshmen ghetto dorms. It is hard to overstate how much this policy contributes to Swarthmore’s campus culture.</p>