[Housing] Which is best for me?
- Thread starter Kraps
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Just answering questions. I wasn't really paying attention to who posted it. But some people literally don't know where they're at
You just described my Helser experience in '06 to a frighteningly accurate degree.
Oh I really didn't know. I just loled at someone having to live in towers.
I lived in quite a few hell holes two. My parents knew I was strictly in them to party.
When I first came to college the Towers had a party reputation, so obviously that's where I wanted to live.
I was on a visit with my mom (and about 25 other families) and was walking up to Knapp Hall and one of the mom's asks "Why are there metal cages around the whole outside?"
The hall director says "That's to protect you from falling chunks of the building."
My mom looks at me and I have a huge ****** grin on my face, and all she could do is laugh.
Loved living there, our doom floor (5th-Maney) had the second worst GPA on campus (3rd floor Storms took that title.) It was literally a dorm floor that felt like Animal House.
I think Helser and Larch have a hell of a lot in common, and draw a very similar crowd. Especially in terms of the non-freshmen who stay there.
I remember pushing for off-campus my freshmen year, but two of my buddies (whose parents were footing the bill) were being strong-armed by their folks into staying in the dorms another year, so I decided to stay as well. One of the best decisions I've ever made. Tomorrow, I'll be getting together with the guys I met that 2nd year, almost 10 years after we first got drunk and played cards. To me, that's what college was really all about.
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Larch.
Who willingly lives in the dorms for more than 1 year. My freshman year there was a 21 year old still living on our floor in Larch. Weirdo.
Who willingly lives in the dorms for more than 1 year. My freshman year there was a 21 year old still living on our floor in Larch. Weirdo.
My vote is Friley, but I may be biased as I lived there. Your going to be closer to classes, and closer to house party actions (unless your looking to party with the greeks).
Well, in my case it was move off-campus by myself or stay in the dorms with my buddies. It was an easy choice. I also had a good friend who had a scholarship that required he live in university housing to receive it, so he had to stay in the dorms for all 4 years. He made the best of it, and spent almost all of his free time at his friends' places off campus. I guess that's not at all "willingly" for him.
The second year in the dorm is a really, really good time, if you aren't awkward and/or anti-social. We had the hang of college down, and spent most of the time getting drunk. Picking up freshmen chicks was quite easy too.
Spent my freshman year in Larch (5th Floor - Kehlenbeck) and it was probably the single best year of my life.
Having met Al at some away ISU games, I can reassure you this is him with the rest of WRNL crew outside Larch:
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Having met Al at some away ISU games, I can reassure you this is him with the rest of WRNL crew outside Larch:
Alright, alright, alright.
They second year really does have a different vibe than the first. We all got super singles in Helser our second year. Most of us were engineers so by that time we had gotten our hardcore party/fail Calc 1 experience out of the way and had a good idea how to get **** done while still having a great time.
I love reading threads like this because it just brings back so many good memories. There really is nothing like Freshman year of college. The whole year is so wildly dynamic and filled with new people/experiences. Want to smoke cigarettes and hookah on the benches outside of Martin and Eaton at 3 in the morning on school night for a semester straight? Go for it. Want to place your buddy's dead pet tarantula in an Irish Springs soap box, light it on fire and blare a bag pipe version of Amazing Grace out your dorm window as terribly confused students walk by? Go for it.
It truly felt like you had the world by the nutts and you had no one to answer to but yourself.
I lived on Roberts Franklin my freshman year. We had the worst on campus. We didn't have a CA from October to February, because we accidentally got him fired but it wasn't our fault. It was insane being alone like that. Our cumulative was like a 1.4. Out of our 25 or whatever, only 5 of us are still in school as upcoming Seniors. Everyone either failed out or dropped out. We all live in the same house to boot.
I was that gullible Freshman that thought it would last 4 years. It kinda did but not to the level the first few weeks are.
If by sports you mean Xbox and Weed, you are golden........
Wilson Werkman for me my first year. There wasn't a better floor for slacker underachievers IMHO. It was awesome!
We had a foosball table, and our very own weed, and blow dealer.....which was nice.
Wilson Werkman for me my first year. There wasn't a better floor for slacker underachievers IMHO. It was awesome!
We had a foosball table, and our very own weed, and blow dealer.....which was nice.
