What are the best and worst parts of living in a dorm? Also, which dorms are better to live in?
Ooo. and do many people live in apartments or something?
Even tho I'm a former student here - I will let one of our current student bloggers reply to this in more detail...
The basics: you must live on campus your first three years. "On campus" is considered to be one of our res halls, the new apartment village, or a fraternity/soroity. Every first year student is required to live in a res hall - your choices here would be Ross Hall or Schwitzer Hall. Ross is co-ed and Schwitzer is all female (but don't worry, they are right down the street from one another!). Your sophomore year options are Ross or Schwitzer, Residential College (right acros the street from Ross Hall - a suite style res hall for upperclassmen, with a cafeteria inside), or a fraternity or soroity - if you participate in rush your freshman year and pledge a house. Then, your junior year you have all these options in addition to the new apartment village down by Hinkle Fieldhouse and the football field. Your senior year - you can move off-campus at that point, if you want, or take any of the above options. Make sense?
I lived in Ross Hall my first two years and loved it! Easy way to meet people and get involved. I lived off-campus my junior and senior year with two other guys (at the time, the on-campus requirement was only the first two years) but was still close enough that I was able to walk to class, which was nice. I had fun with this but did miss living "on campus" a bit.
Bottom line: you'll have lots of options for housng all four of your years - and I don't think any of those options are not desirable. Submit your housing information early and you'll be more likely to get your first preferences!
Cheers.
Best things about living in a dorm:
Worst things about living in a dorm...
(Okay, obviously I lived in Schwitzer so I'm totally biased... the guys and girls who live in Ross love it! literally... they all have shirts that say "Ross Love!")
And yes, Kayleigh, lots of people do live in apartments. University Terrace is a smaller apt. building that will be mostly sophomores next year, and pretty much all the juniors who are not Greek live in the Apartment Village complex, which overlooks our football field and is right near Hinkle Fieldhouse and the Health & Recreation Center. Also, everyone in the Apt. Village gets their own bedroom, so that's pretty sweet!
Our residence life is pretty awesome! I am friends with many of the RAs and they are way cool; our rooms are bigger than the average school's dorms, and you can get a lot of free fun times out of living in a dorm. It's so much fun and one of the best parts of college life, so get excited!!
Anything I didn't cover?
--- Christina '10 http://go.butler.edu/cs/blogs/christinaL
Grey's Anatomy Parties!!! Sign me up! haha :D
Sounds pretty good to me. The bathroom might be annoying a little, but like you said, I'm sure I'll get used to it.
Ok, I've got another dorm question. Has the water in the showers ever run cold?
you know, I'm sure it happened, but not often enough for me to remember it. things typically get fixed pretty quickly in the dorms.
Christina.....why are we up answering questions at 2am on a Friday night?
DEDICATION.
Haha! :) Go enjoy your Spring Break!!
haha we are SO COOL!
and I AM enjoying spring break...that's why I'm still up at 2 am ; )
haha it's been such a busy day and for the first time in a long time, not because of meetings and homework! woooooo. get excited. there will probably be a thrilling post about it soon. yeaaaaaa bloggers!