<p>I only have first hand knowledge of the International Village and West Village F(though the other West Villages are similar, I’ve been told).</p>
<p>I have seen most of the dorms at WPI.</p>
<p>International Village is a much better freshman dorm than any of the ones at WPI. I live in Morgan Hall (all triples). Here it feels dirty in the halls and bathrooms, and there is an unidentifiable odor that has been in the hallway for months now. The couches in the common room are stained, as are the rugs. There are some ceiling tiles missing on our floor because of (drunk at the time)jerks. Some of the other buildings here are a little cleaner, but not by that much. IV is new and clean. The space is pretty much equivalent in both.</p>
<p>When you’re not a freshman at WPI, you live in apartment style housing for the most part, or you live on a fraternity/sorority, or you live off campus in actual apartments. All options are common. I’ll talk about the on-campus apartment style housing at WPI compared to West Village at NU:</p>
<p>East hall is the newest and nicest of the on-campus housing here; it has a full kitchen and a pretty decent common space, with it’s own bathroom and usually 2 doubles and a single attached. It feels very clean and modern.</p>
<p>West Village is the same in terms of modernity and cleanliness, but the apartment I saw had had a larger common space, or it at least felt larger since it has a 2 story ceiling (2nd room is upstairs, 3rd and another bathroom maybe up there too? I didn’t go up there ever; my friend was on the first floor of the apartment…). You should check on the pricing, as that is variable dependent on which building specifically you want to live at.</p>
<p>NU definitely wins for freshman housing, and it’s much more even after that. Housing had nothing to do with my decision, anecdotally.</p>