Housing Options

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So when it comes to housing at Worcester, they're actually a lot of different options available. As a first year student, you don't have access to most of them. You get randomly assigned a residence hall with other first year students, and you also get randomly assigned a room you can request the roommate. Uh, you do take a typical kind of roommate type dating quiz where you answer questions about how loudly your player music when you go to bed. You are, uh, I will say that they do a really good shot pairing students up. There's actually a higher turnover rate for upperclassmen than there is for freshmen. Which means that Maura upperclassmen requesting room changes on the first years dio so either admissions are rez life. Parents, students or we just suck at taking people to live with. Um, but the point is, freshman roommates do work out really well as an upperclassman. You have a lot of different options available to you, so it works on kind of a lottery system. So you get a random number every year that decides when you get to pick your room. We have traditional residence halls, so those air singles doubles, triples, shared bathroom shirt lounge. Basically, what you'd expect we have sweets, so sweets or two rooms connected by a bathroom. We also pods so pod style living is a bunch of different rooms connected by a shared, like living room type space and a shared kitchen. So if you're interested in speaking only language or learning a language, you can live there. Based on whatever you want on, there's usually a graduate student or recently graduated student from that country. They're kind of facilitate that culture exchange and our last kind of big option on for housing. Our program houses So those change year to year, depending on what students are interested in. They're all on campus, and they're all intended to serve the greater Western community s. So we have one that works with goodwill in Worcester to do clothing, donations and fundraisers even other works with Carl Scott's Association Wooster. They bring girls scouts to campus to sell cookies, which is fantastic but a little dangerous because you walk out of your room and they're Girl Scouts selling cookies on the street. I have one that sends a different students down to a local church every day to pass out free meals to those who need it. So there are a lot of different options for housing once you get past your freshman year here.