do students have to live on campus
Freshman and Sophomore students do not have to live from campus if they are communting directly from home. But over 95% of Butler's student body chooses to live on campus and I would strongly recommend it!
are the dorm rooms a decent size at butler?
Hey everyone! lots of questions about dorm rooms right now... which makes sense. It is where you have to live, after all! I have a ton of pics from when I lived in Schwitzer freshman year so I will post those soon. There's also another thread about dorms that you should check out which includes a YouTube video of Schwitz: http://go.butler.edu/cs/forums/t/2439.aspx
Coley, in my opinion, the Butler dorm rooms are some of the biggest around! They were either comparable or bigger than every school I visited... especially state schools! University of Illinois and Michigan's dorms seemed like living in a closet to me, but Butler's are a really comfy size and have big beautiful windows, which I loved. Oh, and Schwitzer, the freshman women's dorm, has HUGE closets. Like, you can stand inside them and change, even if you have way too many clothes like me! : )
To answer the question about living on campus, if we are not commuting from a family member's home, we are required to live in on-campus housing for three years... however, this is not so bad because it includes the dorms but also the Apartment Village and University Terrace housing and Greek houses. In my opinion, on-campus housing is the best way to be close to all the on-campus action. I would have lived on campus for my first three years even if we didn't have the requirement.
--- Christina '10 http://go.butler.edu/cs/blogs/christinaL
Do most people stay on campus over the weekend? Or do many people live in the area and go home?
Most people stay on campus over the weekends, with the exception being long weekends (Labor Day, Fall Break, etc.) when campus is pretty empty. People go home occasionally, but it's never to the point where there aren't people around.