<p>If you’re thinking about not doing Forbes, then you must be doing honors college and you will potentially miss out on the social life of the honors college by not living in Forbes. For some reason the majority (if not all) of the notices and announcements concerning UHC activities for freshmen get posted on the honors floors in the towers (this year) and the people who live elsewhere have a tendency to get left out just cause they don’t know about stuff til it’s too late. Also, there is a lot of camaraderie on the honors floors and it is an easy way to make friends with people who you don’t take class with. I suspect the move to Forbes will help strengthen that “family” feeling.</p>
<p>Since there’s apparently no food in Forbes you will most likely go to Towers anyway to eat, and it really isn’t that much of a walk once you’re used to it, which will take about one day. If you go in through the lobby and down the stairs to eat, you will pass all the info tables that will keep you up to snuff on general freshman activities. These info tables are an almost nonstop presence, so if you eat there at least once a day you will always know what’s going on.</p>
<p>The only people I would perhaps caution against Forbes are the engineering majors, only due to the group projects that sometimes keep you up til 2am nights on end. That is a lot easier to cope with if you’re able to just walk next door to another Tower and w/o leaving the building (shared lobby). If you’re an engineer then you might be better off in SPACE just to make the group work easier.</p>
<p>I agree that Towers is a great way to meet the other freshmen and keep up with all the opptys, but if you eat there every day, which is NOT hard if you live in Forbes, then you will meet people and keep up anyway.</p>