Here's a summary as of March 14.
Hope to hear from Edwards Matthews and McKay.
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BATES
Cons:
- They're all in the basement and you're really better off just staying in your own living room.
- its in the basement and the pool table is always broken
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BRANDON
Cons: - the common room stinks (sometimes) when the recycling bins are full
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HEDDEN
Pros:
- one for each "wing" sometimes it is a good thing on nights when there are shows people want to watch
Cons:
- kinda sucks sometimes cos you don't get to interact with everyone on your floor
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KEYES:
Pros:
- newly renovated, nice furniture, lots of seating and room
- good sized tv, doesn't smell + the trash is never filled
Cons:
- nobody's ever in it... (I guess this can be viewed as a pro as well... )
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LES PRINCE
Pros:
- Everything is new, but people steal cushions from the couches for their rooms.
-There are two per floor, which means you are more likely to have it to yourself-
- full kitchen, nice views, TV, vcr, dvd player, couches, new
Cons:
-There are two per floor the downside being, you are more likely to have it to yourself. That usually means the half of
the floor that shares a common room, are more likely to socialize within themselves.
-smell travels vertically, not horizontally, in Les Prince, because of the ventilation system (I know this because I was a CA, not because I'm some crazy Les Prince knowledge buff). If someone burns something on the fifth floor, you'll
smell it on the second... for days.
- The common room usually heats up like a furnace, and depending on what was cooked there last, they can REEEEALLLLY smell bad for days
- the newness can sometimes make it seem sterile.
-In Les Prince, people tend to stay in their rooms more often because of the attached washrooms. I'd say people use the common rooms less in this building as compared to others.
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MOULTON
Pros:
- there's a large common room on every floor and a piano on every floor
- friendly, awesome guy always around the common room
- kitchen with a lot of counter space if u want to cook
- EMR (basement common room) is HUGE with big tv and wipeboards for studying
-There's a separate garbage room so we usually don't have the problem with smelly common room
Cons:
-while the piano is nice, it can be quite irritating when some people play after quiet hours (and some quite poorly I might add) especially when you live near the common room
-There really isn't a ventilation system so when someone cooks the entire floor smells
- basement kitchen is nasty people frequently forget to wash their dishes
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WALLINGFORD
Pros:
-The tea room is cute and pretty. And there's a piano!
-I wish there was some way we could get another TV for the tea room - but a lot of people like the idea of the tea
room staying a quiet place.
Cons:
-The common rooms with the TV's are in the basement which feels like a freakin' bomb shelter. It's WAY out of the
way, a section of the basement smells like death, the one common room is tiny and the other is lined with mirrors
which is freaking CREEPY.
-Yeah... the mirrors are ghetto. I'm not going to lie.
-We only have 2 common rooms with TVs in the basement. Which honestly, isn't the best.
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WHIDDEN
Pros:
-The best part of Whidden's common rooms are they are part of the building, all of the hallways lead to it, instead of
being an isolated room. This encourages people to use the room much more. The common room is also larger
then some others that I have seen.
- Whidden is shaped like the letter Y. All three wings lead to a central common room on each floor.
-In the middle of all 3 wings so really friendly especially since everyone in triples doesn't choose to stay in their
rooms.
- Its almost impossible not to pass through it, so you get to meet a lot of people.
-Big sized with a lot of empty space and a lot of couches and chairs + awesome larger table with chairs which we
normally use as a study area or for playing cards and board games.
-Has a fridge although isn't really used.
- Decent size with a Tv and windows that face McKay.
- Nice arrangement of couches and tables/chairs.
- There is a common fridge, although hardly anyone uses it.
-There is also the cave in the basement, it is a large room and not very busy (in my year) so you can group study in
it at times. It is also used for building programming.
Cons:
- Garbage cans are located in the common room, and depending on whats in it, it may affect the air quality in the room.
-Only con is that the recycling room is located in the common room so sometimes (especially on sundays after everyone puts their empty beer cans in there) it can smell bad.
- Fridge smells horrible most of the time.
-Whidden - kitchen's separate from the common room...but the fridge is in the common room o_O best to have your own mini fridge
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WOODSTOCK
Cons:
- Each floor has its own common room. The couch, TV, fridge and stove are all in the same room. It is very smelly and the recycling bins are always full, so there is lots of garbage on the floor.
