Where Should Freshmen Live?

coola426
Sun, 15 Dec 2013 18:44:36 +0000

I’m a freshman at OSU and I’ll give you the lowdown. Basically North Campus is more quiet and I guess you could say “nerdy” than the other campuses. North Campus also has a lot of international students, mainly Asian. They’re not really a problem and the ones I’ve met are really nice and open about talking about their backgrounds but they mostly keep to themselves(not trying to sound racist or anything). The dining options are o.k as you have the North Commons dining hall and there are some off campus options near you. North Campus is also right next to most if not all of your classes so you should keep this in mind. There’s also a decent sized gym on North Campus.

West Campus is kind of far from everything but its close to the RPAC and the Stadium, and I guess it’s the closest place to the Schott(basketball/ice hockey arena). Morrill commons also doesn’t have the best food as I’ve heard. I heard it’s pretty fun to live on West Campus but it’ll be a little bit harder for you to make friends that don’t live in your dorm(thankfully there are a lot of people in your dorm so it shouldn’t be too bad).

South campus(where I live) is in my opinion the best place to live. You have the best dining options, decent proximity to classes(10-15 minute walk max) and it’s very social. It’s also a lot louder/more social on South campus espeacially in two of the newer dorms which are Park-Stradley and Smith-Steeb. Those are known as the “party dorms”. It’s also in good proximity to off-campus housing which is where most of the house parties/bars are. Keep in mind that you can still get work done, I lived in one of the renovated halls(Siebert) and I got around a 3.5 this semester, it’ll just be a little louder because people are more social. There’s also a decent-sized gym on south campus.

Basically if you want a quiet/academic focused area North Campus is your best bet. But if you want a mix of everything South Campus is definitely the way to go. I wouldn’t really see any reason why you would want to live on West, unless your in a learning community but it still isn’t that bad to live there.

Also South Campus is overwhelmingly Freshmen, while North seems to pretty mixed, and I don’t know too much about West but I think its mostly Freshmen. Freshmen also can’t live off campus unless they commute.

So yeah I hope I helped.