Hey I'm heading to Iowa State and was just wondering what the best dorm is? For a standard double. Right now, my #1 option is Friley. I was just wondering if the huge size of it might be a bad thing possibly? Not sure what to think. I'd like to know some thoughts on Friley and/or other dorms. Thanks.
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There are tons of other threads on this if you search for them and they have all sorts of opinions.
To answer your specific concern however, I never found the size of Friley to be an issue. Yes, it's an almost comically long building, but you sort of just get a feel for your "neighborhood" and don't worry so much about the rest of the building. It's not like your going to get lost trying to get out of the building or anything.
To answer your specific concern however, I never found the size of Friley to be an issue. Yes, it's an almost comically long building, but you sort of just get a feel for your "neighborhood" and don't worry so much about the rest of the building. It's not like your going to get lost trying to get out of the building or anything.
I stayed in Linden my first year. Big rooms and cool people. Really enjoyed my first year experience there, but that's just my opinion. I've heard other dorms are cool as well.
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To expand, I lived in Friley my first semester freshman year, and if you get stuck on the 5th floor, you get absolutely hosed. Rooms are tiny, my neighbors had two people in a single, and there literally was no room to move in their room. I moved to Eaton second semester and couldn't have been happier. My room in Eaton had it's own bathroom and everything.
I lived on the fifth floor and had the biggest room you could get and still be only a double. It was awesome. My roommate and I lorded it over all the other scmucks who got stuck in the small rooms. Good times, I tell ya.
Helser is a **** hole now, as is Larch. I have a friend who moved in to helser this year and there were cockroaches in the room when they got there.
Hate to break it to you, but there are cockroaches everywhere. But out of sight, out of mind...
That's fine but for a room to be dusty and have cockroaches crawling around on move in day is not acceptable.
Yeah, top floor Friley, depending where you live, sucks. I lived second floor Friley in Godfrey, which is ground level, for my first 2.5 years. That part was awesome, but my house was socially inept. Moved to Helser Woodrow the next semester, and it was great. But I was part of the last group that got to live there as they tore that part of Helser down the following summer.
My favorite was Roberts Harriman. The community rivals Towers without having to live like a Sherpa...