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Specialty Dorms

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AWFUL. I'm at UCSC, where we don't actually have a specific Engineering dorm/college (we have a pretty big engineering program). The science/technology themed-ish college is the most boring one ever, though. everyone leaves their doors closed and plays video games all the time- its awful. i cant imagine how much worse itd be in one that was expressly for engineers. for your own mental health, dont do it.
 
Originally posted by: saahmed
In either case your going to find annoying people and people you probably wouldnt prefer to be around. If your into partying: most people doing engineering, at my school at least, are normal students who party just as much as anyone else. Anyway, I think it would be best to stay in the engineering dorms, that way you can get good help with homework, which means you can usually get it done faster, which means more partying. I mean, you can still hang out with the "cooler" people, you just might not be living with them.

I live at home though, so I guess I dont really know what dorm life is like.
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I have a feeling most of the "normal engineers" stay in the normal dorms though 😛
 
All of you people saying "No, go normal, party and getz teh p00n" are apparently not very keen on studying enginneering to begin with. You aren't going to get time for it anyway. There's plenty of time to all that crap when you are making fat cash because you got good grades in school because you weren't partying. You can't assume that every enginnering major is an annoying nerd without assuming that you are one, too.

9 times out of 10, you don't live in the dorms for all four years of college, so why the hell not start out on the right foot?

There's the choice that gives you four years of fun that could end short because you didn't study...

Then there's the choice that helps you get through school easily and helps you get a great job.

Make the right choice.
 
Originally posted by: Injury
All of you people saying "No, go normal, party and getz teh p00n" are apparently not very keen on studying enginneering to begin with. You aren't going to get time for it anyway. There's plenty of time to all that crap when you are making fat cash because you got good grades in school because you weren't partying. You can't assume that every enginnering major is an annoying nerd without assuming that you are one, too.

9 times out of 10, you don't live in the dorms for all four years of college, so why the hell not start out on the right foot?

There's the choice that gives you four years of fun that could end short because you didn't study...

Then there's the choice that helps you get through school easily and helps you get a great job.

Make the right choice.
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To me that's why I'd rather choose the normal dorms, when I'm taking more general classes and before I really have to study the harder stuff, when I'll probably be in my own place with a better environment to do so, and in the mean time it'll be much easier to meet people and make friends.
 
Trust me on this. Wether you live in the engineering dorm or regular dorm your time at RIT will be a miserable one until you move far off campus. There are no good on campus parties except for like the first week. My two current roomates are mechanical engineers and they lived on a regualr floor with me freshman year, and they're still here. So basically it doesn't matter where you live, a regular dorm will be slightly less miserable than a engineering one.

<-just graduated this winter. Thank the f()cking lord.
 
Originally posted by: Zeeky Boogy Doog
Originally posted by: Injury
All of you people saying "No, go normal, party and getz teh p00n" are apparently not very keen on studying enginneering to begin with. You aren't going to get time for it anyway. There's plenty of time to all that crap when you are making fat cash because you got good grades in school because you weren't partying. You can't assume that every enginnering major is an annoying nerd without assuming that you are one, too.

9 times out of 10, you don't live in the dorms for all four years of college, so why the hell not start out on the right foot?

There's the choice that gives you four years of fun that could end short because you didn't study...

Then there's the choice that helps you get through school easily and helps you get a great job.

Make the right choice.
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To me that's why I'd rather choose the normal dorms, when I'm taking more general classes and before I really have to study the harder stuff, when I'll probably be in my own place with a better environment to do so, and in the mean time it'll be much easier to meet people and make friends.
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You do realize that you are allowed to socialize with people outside of the dorms and that you will have classes with people that aren't in your dorms, right? 😉

Goosemaster's experience is reason enough to go engineering dorm. Some toolshed will insist on playing Afroman's "Because I got High" at least 30 times in a row with their door wide open and thinking that they are doing everyone a favor by letting them hear their music and eventually it won't get turned down because you'll get sick of walking down the hall to ask them.

Your choice is your own, but there are plenty of opportunities to meet people and socialize without being in the basic dorms.

Another great reason of being in the engineering dorms is that the people with access to your floor will probably be more trustworthy... which means less stolen sh!t.
 
Originally posted by: Zeeky Boogy Doog
I got my last acceptance letter about a week ago and was filling out the paperwork and such, and it asked if I wanted to live in the specialty dorms, would be the engineering dorm for me (at RIT btw).
I was wondering whether you chose the dorms like this or lived in the normal ones and what your experiences were with them. What do you think?
I'm kinda torn, on one hand you get to live in a building full of people who could help you specificly with what you're majoring in, on the other you're in a building full of engineers, good or bad? I don't know, you tell me.
Thanks.
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I recommend the "normal" dorms
One of the best things about going away fir cillege is broadening your horizons by meeting people who have different backgrounds and interests than you do.

Get a tutor if you need help.
 
Originally posted by: Injury
All of you people saying "No, go normal, party and getz teh p00n" are apparently not very keen on studying enginneering to begin with. You aren't going to get time for it anyway. There's plenty of time to all that crap when you are making fat cash because you got good grades in school because you weren't partying. You can't assume that every enginnering major is an annoying nerd without assuming that you are one, too.

9 times out of 10, you don't live in the dorms for all four years of college, so why the hell not start out on the right foot?

There's the choice that gives you four years of fun that could end short because you didn't study...

Then there's the choice that helps you get through school easily and helps you get a great job.

Make the right choice.
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NORMAL DORM.

You have a bad argument anyway. I am finishing up engineering at UIUC, and I could have easily lived in the party dorms without killing my GPA. It's called time management. In fact I wish I had lived in the party rather than engineering dorms. The friends you have when you are in an apartment are likely your friends from the dorms. Keep this in mind. It's hard to change groups of friends, though it is possible with some luck and work.
 
Nothing wrong with engineering dorms. At UCB, there are dorms that are typically packed with engineering people because of their close proximity to engineering buildings, and the people there were fine. I'd recommend choosing which is more convenient based on location and features, rather than trying to predict what type of people you'll be living with (there can be both good and bad roommates in both situations).
 
First year stay in a normal coed dorm, 1st year of college is always BS anyways have fun that year get a chick or two then move to the dork dorm.
 
Originally posted by: Finality
First year stay in a normal coed dorm, 1st year of college is always BS anyways have fun that year get a chick or two then move to the dork dorm.
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dont do this, its the worst misconception out there... u will look at it 3 years later when applying for whtever u would want to do...ull regret this. trust me!

and stay aat the engineering dorm. you can EASILY get ur hw done in one night with help from fellow students, and you can always party whenever u want. just make other friends in the normal dorm, and hang out with them when no work due.

 
Originally posted by: esun
Nothing wrong with engineering dorms. At UCB, there are dorms that are typically packed with engineering people because of their close proximity to engineering buildings, and the people there were fine. I'd recommend choosing which is more convenient based on location and features, rather than trying to predict what type of people you'll be living with (there can be both good and bad roommates in both situations).
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hahaha...UCB 😛
who else is there besides engineers
 
I dormed in "program housing" all four years of college, though with more interesting themes than engineering.
 
lol, I lived in the honors dorm for the first 2 months of college, IT WAS SO DAMNED BORING. I moved to a regular dorm and it was awsome, crazy parties, plenty of girls around. Skip the engineering dorm and live a little man.
 
Zeeky Boogy Doog, the people who are replying have obviously never joined an engineering fraternaty or been a member of Engineering House at RIT. I've known people who were in engineering fraternaties, known members of Engineering House, and heard a lot of stories about Engineering House (EH) from other non-members.

The ratio of guys to girls in EH is about the same as the engineering college as a whole. The difference is that the girls want to be around engineering guys. Most other girls (especially the ones in engineering) at RIT want to get as far away engineering and computer science guys as possible.

Both EH and Computer Science House (CSH) have a system set up to hold registration spots for it's members. If you are in EH or CSH, you can sleep in on registration day and register at your leisure. If you aren't, you have to wake up at 5 am and fight for one of the few spots that isn't held by EH or CSH, and hope they didn't fill up the classes that you want.

They also have massive banks of homework and old tests. Most of the engineering professors at RIT recycle homework and tests, so you can ace most of your classes with minimal studying. Everybody I know in EH either failed out or got a 3.9 or better.

Since you don't have to study much, you have time to either do research with professors, or spend your time partying. A majority of EH choose the later, and most of the floor are at least recreational drug users.

Once you graduate as well as when you are looking for co-ops, you'll have a huge network already built up.

I chose not to go to Engineering House, but it's certainly much different than what most people in this thread are posting about.
 
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