10 Worst Dorms in America - Page 4

ASTalumna06 · #1 03-10-2011, 03:23 PM

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Originally Posted by knight_shadow

Another reason I'm happy that I didn't live in dorms.

Actually, getting written up was another awesome experience. Haha.. go figure.

First of all, I showed up in Student Affairs and had to talk to someone there about myself, and how everything was going with school, what I was involved in, blah blah blah. I guess they wanted to make sure I wasn’t “troubled.” So I said I was in a sorority. The woman asked me which one, I told her, and it turned out she was an AST, too! So we basically just hung out and talked (and later she became more involved with the sorority). So she said, “I know this is a really stupid thing to get written up for, but it’s my job and I have to do this.. so I need you to choose a small project to do.” They were little PR/safety/healthy living “advertisements,” so to speak, that you’d have to create. So I chose to design a flyer type thing to be put up around campus regarding the dangers of drinking and how to handle certain situations when it comes to alcohol.

I was bored one night (I’m pretty sure I was snowed in), so I went all out with it. What started out as a few flyers to be put up turned into something that was posted all over campus. They were also included with students’ information packets when they first arrived at school, and were handed out at different events regarding alcohol awareness. I felt pretty damn special. Lol.

And it was all because I spent 3 seconds in the guys’ bathroom.

Munchkin03 · #2 03-10-2011, 03:27 PM

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Originally Posted by knight_shadow

Another reason I'm happy that I didn't live in dorms.

I remember visiting UF with a fraternity brother and hanging out at his sister's "dorm" (it wasn't officially on-campus, but the only tenants were female students from the university). Their community bathrooms were cleaner than the individual bathrooms in the dorms at my alma mater.

That's more a reflection on the oollege's culture rather than dorms. It was impossible to get "written up" at my college for a dorm-related matter unless it was something that would have gotten you arrested outside the dorms.

ASTalumna06 · #3 03-10-2011, 03:42 PM

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Originally Posted by Munchkin03

That's more a reflection on the oollege's culture rather than dorms. It was impossible to get "written up" at my college for a dorm-related matter unless it was something that would have gotten you arrested outside the dorms.

Well, it really depended on the RAs at my school. A lot of them were cool, but the one that had me written up we would call (and I'm not using his real name) Deputy Mike. He ENJOYED writing people up.

I remember when New Found Glory played at my school, and the band's tour bus was outside, so me and my friend stood by it after the concert for about an hour. We weren’t extremely close, we didn’t run up to it, we were basically standing around in a place where people normally stand on campus, and Deputy Mike came to yell at us and told us we couldn’t be there. I asked him why, and he couldn’t come up with an answer. At this point more people were coming to stand with us, and in the middle of him being mad over nothing, the band walked onto the bus, hung out for 5 minutes, then came out to sign autographs. And the Deputy looked dumb.

Some people just don’t want others to have fun!

Oh, and that was kind of awesome, too, because news crews were around there and supposedly I was on tv for 5 seconds.

That kid inadvertently did a lot of good things for me! lol

Jill1228 · #4 03-10-2011, 02:56 PM

Mice? Oh. HELL. NO

BluPhire · #5 03-10-2011, 07:03 PM

Man no research went into that article. Rust College in Holly Springs MS should have been number. Them things still look like slave quarters.

PhoenixAzul · #6 03-10-2011, 11:17 PM

I purposefully chose my dorm because it was all female, close to the (then) art building, and old and pretty. I lived there for two years, and then into suites (still dorms, but four individual bedrooms, 1.5 baths, and a nice living room/kitchen/dining room) for two years. I liked both of them.

Because my first year, the dorms were all female (or all male), it was pretty quiet. But there were the common complaints of hair in the showers (and not really enough showers for how many women lived there), and male guests, and no AC, and visiting hours, but all in all, it was a nice place to be.

Sophomore year, they made the top two floors female and the bottom two male, with locks so you had to be invited on to another floor. Then our complaints were of the REEKING of Axe deodorant, and of the boys general slovenliness, but still, the dorm was nice.

Our suite was truly nice though, and I loved living there. I loved the campus living experience, and I think it's a key part of the college experience overall. I see huge differences between how my husband, who lived at home for school, and I view our alma maters, and I think that has a lot to do with living on campus.

Now, Otterbein had some pretty heinous dorms that were meant to be "temporary". Thirty years later, they're pretty dire...cinder blocks, dingy, etc. They're called the Triad, but one of the Triad, "Engle"....was truly horrendous, and was/is the most frequently complained about, most vandalized, most shenanigans hall on campus. It would be funny if not for the gross shit I've heard about happening there. *shudder*

But we've had two new halls built in the past three years, and renovations are underway on the others, so I'm sure they've got way better digs than I did, but I was happy with what I had.

AGDee · #7 03-10-2011, 11:22 PM

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Originally Posted by victoriana

What dorm did you live in??

Back in my day, Walton and Putnam were the International dorms. Phelps was the male freshman dorm and Sellers was the female freshman dorm. I believe that's been reversed now? I was in Putnam and worked (and met my first husband at) DC1.

victoriana · #8 03-12-2011, 12:06 AM

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Originally Posted by AGDee

Back in my day, Walton and Putnam were the International dorms. Phelps was the male freshman dorm and Sellers was the female freshman dorm. I believe that's been reversed now? I was in Putnam and worked (and met my first husband at) DC1.

Oooh the FYC. Now it's all coed by floor. International students are all mixed in. I lived in Downing my freshman year and of course went to DC-1 all the time.

AGDee · #9 03-12-2011, 12:14 AM

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Originally Posted by victoriana

Oooh the FYC. Now it's all coed by floor. International students are all mixed in. I lived in Downing my freshman year and of course went to DC-1 all the time.

Oh geez, I messed that up. I worked at DC-2. My freshman year, my boyfriend (a sophomore) and my best friend from high school (his roommate, which is how I met my boyfriend) lived in Buell so I ate at DC-1 all the time. After we broke up during my sophomore year, then I started eating at DC-2. I was also a campus operator and the switchboard was in that basement tunnel between Wise and Downing.

KSUViolet06 · #10 03-11-2011, 03:16 PM

^^^It's so weird, the so-called "worst" dorm group on campus was the one with the burger/greasy afterparty food place downstairs too (that was open until 2 AM!)

sanjiyan69 · #11 03-11-2011, 11:32 PM

I didn't think my dorm was that bad. It was old, but I enjoyed the people I lived with. We had suites so I had some crazy suite-mates. I remember one day I came back to our bathroom graffiti'd with tide and black lights on the ceiling.

One of the RA worked amateur nights at the Vu occassionally and he actually invited people from the dorms to cheer him on lol

The dorm was a "meal-plan-optional" dorm so I just worked in the cafeteria and never paid for any type of meal plans (well, if you consider "free" was a choice)

I never really have any problems with bugs or mice....the only problem I had was this one chick that was really loud while having sex...Everyone down the hall could hear her and her room was kitty corner from my room.

Fun times.

victoriana · #12 03-12-2011, 01:31 AM

What on earth is DC-2? The place in the Walton-Putnam-Phelps-Sellers complex?

AGDee · #13 03-12-2011, 01:32 AM

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Originally Posted by victoriana

What on earth is DC-2? The place in the Walton-Putnam-Phelps-Sellers complex?

Yes, that's what it was called then. Above the Eastern Eateries (is that still there?)

victoriana · #14 03-12-2011, 01:40 AM

Yeah, it has two levels. The bottom floor houses part of the Holman Success Center, where students can get one on one tutoring, group tutoring, and writing help. There are also some old pianos down there... I've never been to the lower level but I ate at the Eateries a lot when I lived in the dorms. They have an Asian place, a burger/grill, a make your own pizza and pasta, a chicken place, a sandwich place, a Freshens, a salad bar, and other random food. There's also a little convenience store on the lower level.

AGDee · #15 03-12-2011, 10:56 AM

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Originally Posted by victoriana

Yeah, it has two levels. The bottom floor houses part of the Holman Success Center, where students can get one on one tutoring, group tutoring, and writing help. There are also some old pianos down there... I've never been to the lower level but I ate at the Eateries a lot when I lived in the dorms. They have an Asian place, a burger/grill, a make your own pizza and pasta, a chicken place, a sandwich place, a Freshens, a salad bar, and other random food. There's also a little convenience store on the lower level.

Ok, the lower level used to be the Eateries and a convenience store and the upper level was a Dining Commons. The Eateries wasn't that extensive back then, they had hamburgers, hot dogs fries and the BEST nachos ever. I only ever got nachos there... lol.