Which Freshman Dorm is Right for Me?

gdubstudent
Sun, 06 Feb 2011 22:31:59 +0000

I’m currently a freshman at GW, and I live in a double in Thurston. It’s a nice room - it’s much bigger than a Potomac double, has a huge closet, and a private bathroom (Potomac, and most other frosh dorms are shared with 4 people). Despite this, Thurston overall lives up to its reputation, and the hallway is always noisy until very late hours in the night, which might be a turn-off. Potomac is probably the best place for freshman overall - it’s in a nice location on campus, the rooms are very nice, and the floors are, in my opinion, the perfect size for meeting people. Crawford and Madison are much older and smaller, so people who I know in those dorms are much more attached to the people on their floor. Lafayette is a dorm under construction right now, but it will be available next year. It’s small, but the rooms should be very nice - they are supposed to be modeled after Potomac. Personally, I would avoid Mt. Vernon at all costs, regardless of whether you consider yourself to be a “partyer” or not. West Hall is brand-new this year and beautiful, but my friends who live there say it is especially unsocial. The other dorms on the Vern are also pretty nice, but extremely small, and are filled with people who, in my opinion, need to get out more. The campus is nice, but the shuttle bus is HORRIBLE - slow and unreliable, and I just don’t like the idea of being cut off from the city. I chose GW for a reason - and that was because I loved being in DC.