Your Favorite Dorm/Living Group?

jessiehl
Wed, 16 Dec 2009 09:25:36 +0000

It would be really, really nice if you could at least PRETEND that you haven’t made up your minds yet.



Yeah, I’m going to agree with this.

Folks, in order for students to be allowed to continue to HAVE this system with all these cool dorms with different cultures that you’re allowed to choose between, where you’re not forced to choose blind and get to go through dorm rush (which is, let me tell you, a lot of fun), incoming classes of students have to keep taking advantage of it. If people stop using the system properly, and everyone just picks a dorm eight or nine months before the start of their freshman year and sticks with it, there’s a risk that the relevant administrators will take it, or at least large parts of it, away.

It’s great that you care about where you will end up living if you get in. But you really shouldn’t be making up your minds about how you will rank the dorms just yet. Most of you are picking blind! The whole point of the system is that you DON’T have to pick blind!

I realize that I’m sounding overly serious in this post. But I would like to have this on record, so that you at least understand why, in future months, on this board, on other Internet fora, at CPW, and during dorm rush, you will have legions of of students harping incessantly on the need for you to go through the housing selection process properly. :p