What's your opinion on housing?

fallenchemist
Fri, 09 Dec 2011 12:21:44 +0000

Residential College refers to a system the UK uses most prominently at Oxford and Cambridge wherein the University is divided up into separate colleges and all students in that college reside there. Meals, dorms, and most activities are self-contained within that college, and there were one or more professors that would live there as well. While the system here uses the same terminology, it does not have so dramatic a separation from the rest of the university. There is a professor and his family (if he has one) that lives in the dorm. There is also a more cohesive feeling among the residents, fostered by activities for the residents only, and the requirement that all residents participate in the operation of the dorm in some fashion. That means serving on at least one committee, or maybe it is two. I’m not sure. Probably one.