POLL: Which residence hall should I live in?

[skim milk]

I'm studying abroad at a university in Asia.. hopefully I can meet the right people and have a good time.. something I've been lacking the past 5 years but that's another story

They offer two residence halls

One is a NEWLY built housing just for international students and faculty. It is suite style and the building it big... it houses around 300 men and women. It has a semi private bath in each suite so no sharing with the whole floor (they offer all kinds of floor plans)

The other is an old dormitory that has community shared bathroom, it is coed and houses 84 students. They waive the cost if I live here... I think it's about $700
for four months but I get to stay here for free (I'll be in a standard triple)

The new one I talked about, I'm not sure how much it costs for the semester but I have to pay the DIFFERENCE. So whatever the cost is.. subtract 700 from it, and that's what I have to pay.
I think it is double the cost of the old one...so i'll probably pay 700 out of my pocket to stay at the new residence hall for the semester.

What do you guys think?

I really don't care about privacy.. as long as I get along with my roommates. I also want to meet people to hang out with.
I lived in the dorms during my freshman year in college but didn't take advantage of it.
I really don't want a single or a double.. I'm afraid I might be a loner or something
I'm thinking a triple at least.. or a quintuple. (the larger the size, the cheaper the cost) but it might work out for me as it would provide a better chance to meet people

I'm a guy so I'm not really picky where I live... I've lived in worse places so I'm used to it but I don't want to miss out on a better experience

Also, what floor plan would best suit me? Double is too boring (I've lived in a double since my freshman year).. triple or quintuple maybe?

 

[wfbberzerker]

well, from what it sounds like your preferences are, i say go with the old dormitory.

 

[notfred]

You want to meet people to hang out with.

You have the choice of being around 300 potential friends, or 84 potential friends.

 

[csyberblue]

I think you should stay in the new one, because there's more people living there, all of you will have the common experience of being foreign students, and you don't have to share a bathroom. The price difference is worth that, imo.

 

[Siddhartha]

How culturally and ethnically diverse is the country and school?

 

[skim milk]

Originally posted by: Siddhartha
How culturally and ethnically diverse is the country and school?

The country is not really diverse but the school has been pushing the global perspective for the past few years so it's working hard to become diverse.
I'm a native of the country so I don't think I'll have problems fitting in....even though I haven't been there in over 10 years
but since I'm somewhat americanized, I want to hang out with the international students as well... show them around and give them the real taste of the culture/nightlife and not what they see on TV

 

I actually prefer a hall-wide bathroom, because it gets cleaned by the custodial staff on a regular basis. If you have a bathroom that's shared by a couple rooms, you'll have to clean it yourselves. Which means that it'll never get cleaned.

 

[Excelsior]

Originally posted by: jumpr
I actually prefer a hall-wide bathroom, because it gets cleaned by the custodial staff on a regular basis. If you have a bathroom that's shared by a couple rooms, you'll have to clean it yourselves. Which means that it'll never get cleaned.

Yep, Jumpr has a point. The people who came by to clean our suite bathroom dida pretty sh!tty job (no pun intended).

 

[tami]

Originally posted by: Excelsior

Originally posted by: jumpr
I actually prefer a hall-wide bathroom, because it gets cleaned by the custodial staff on a regular basis. If you have a bathroom that's shared by a couple rooms, you'll have to clean it yourselves. Which means that it'll never get cleaned.

Yep, Jumpr has a point. The people who came by to clean our suite bathroom dida pretty sh!tty job (no pun intended).

the custodial staff still may clean the suite bathroom, though. one bad experience with cleaning a bathroom does not mean all experiences will be that way. when i lived in a suite one summer, we had the custodial staff come clean our bathroom and they did a great job.