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The dorms are probably one of UConn's weakest areas. There is nowhere near enough space for the amount of students, and there are still no immediate plans to build new ones or fix up the old ones. There's a handful of nice dorms, but most of them are suites, and the rest are old and disgusting. Most freshmen are put in Towers, Northwest, or North, but you can be put almost anywhere. The freshman dorms are decent, although North is probably the worst dorm on campus. Once you're no longer a freshman, you get to participate in the housing selection process to pick your own room for the next year. This is THE most stressful process ever, and there's at least a 80{4a082faed443b016e84c6ea63012b481c58f64867aa2dc62fff66e22ad7dff6c} chance you won't get what you want. Unless you're selection time is within the first 2 to 3 days, you'll probably get stuck in a crappy dorm that you didn't want. A lot of the dorms have a lot of rooms reserved for Honors students and Learning Communities, and they usually are the nicer dorms.

Housing sucks. Rooms are tiny and cramped. My room was smaller than all of my high school friends' rooms. It's always ninety degrees in the rooms, and RAs do not enforce quiet hours at all. Suites aren't bad, but you won't get in until your senior year most likely.