<p>feedback411, I apologize as I cannot send private messages yet for some reason. Most of my answers are just from my opinion or experience, but I’ll try the best I can to answer for the general population. Usually breakfast and lunch hours at Valentine don’t get too crowded, but yes it does depend on the time, such as when certain classes get out. Dinner isn’t too bad if you go early, because 6:30 does get pretty crowded but it’s cool to see the entire school there at once. The biggest complaint is that it closes kind of early at 7:30. Freshman year is the only one that you do not get to choose your dorm room at all, and there are few singles, but definitely not many. 2 of my friends were lucky enough to get them, but I think that is very likely rare. It isn’t really a problem because most dorm rooms are large and nice, and they did a good job (at least with me) as to getting a good roomate that was unlike me. After freshman year, you can choose a lot of dorms on campus, some are singles, some doubles, and some a suite-complexes usually with single rooms coming off a 4 person common room. I personally go in to town quite a bit, to be honest there isn’t way too much to really do entertaining wise, as I usually go there for food or to just check out the scene. But down the main road there are definitely places and shopping centers to go to which is why having access to a car can be pretty useful, but the free bus system works. It is by no means impossible to get A’s here, although the school is very challenging. Usually someone who was very used to getting straight A’s in high school will find this a little different, but definitely not overbearing. If you take classes you genuinely enjoy, the right professors will reward your work, which is great because of the open curriculum. But get stuck with the wrong professor or class and it could definitely be a hard time.</p>