Hi, I’m Allison and I’m On Location to show you what student life is like living in the residence halls at the University of Iowa!
There are five residence halls on the east side of campus, Burge, Currier, Stanley, Daum, and Mayflower.
Each residence hall has high speed wired and wireless internet, access to the cambus service, and laundry facilities.
Behind me is Burge Hall! Burge Hall includes a Market Place, which is where you’ll eat most of your meals,
an outdoor basketball court, as well as a convenience store.
Come check out the market place!
UI Market Places offer Asian, Italian, and Southwestern dishes; sandwiches and wraps, soups and salads, and home-style cooking.
Another unique aspect of the Burge Market Place is the Chef’s Table,
which is a chef prepared-to-order station which includes pasta, stir-fry, sushi and other custom options.
What's your favorite station at the Burge Market Place?
I really enjoy the Chef's Table. I like the omelettes every morning. So you get to make your own omelette and they're delicious.
My favorite station at the Burge Market Place will have to be the pasta and pizza section. They have a variety of choices.
I really like all the stuff at the Chef's Table. Flat bread pizza day is my favorite for sure, and grilled cheese day.
Fun fact, the University of Iowa buys our food from local farmers whenever possible and composts and recycles our waste!
This is what a typical East Side room looks like!
Hi I'm Hannah. I'm a first year student. I'm an elementary education major and part of the first year hawks LLC.
And this is our room. My roommate and I put Christmas lights and pictures up to make it more homey.
We delofted one of the beds, so that we could have more space. We have a microwave and refrigerator and
then we keep our snacks over here for when we are studying and need a little break.
Located next to Burge is Currier! Quick fun fact, this year Currier will be celebrating its 100th birthday! Let’s take a look!
Currier has a large quiet study area and a multi-purpose room, which is a great place to study if it's not hosting one of its fun events.
As well as a free fitness center, only available to residence hall students!
Currier is also conveniently connected to Stanley residence hall.
Many of the lounges in Stanley offer a panoramic view of the Iowa River and are a great place to socialize with friends and to practice the piano!
Daum Hall is the only residence hall that is a designated honors house.
One of the coolest things about the Daum residence hall, is that it’s connected via sky walk to the Blank Honors Center,
which is really convenient for students who have classes right next door.
Mayflower Hall is located further from the main campus compared to other residence halls.
However, the distance seems short with cambus services visiting Mayflower every ten minutes Monday through Friday!
The rooms in Mayflower are set up suite-style with two people per room, sharing a kitchen and full bathroom with two other people.
I'm Patrick Ahrens, this is my room at Mayflower. This is when you first walk in we have our desk area. This is great for studying.
As we move back into the room, we have another storage area for more clothes and food.
Got our futon here. A couple beds, me and my roommates.
Mayflower is really cool because we have a bathroom and a kitchen.
We live on a living learning community center here or LLCs. I'm in the health science. I'm a nursing major.
So I live on this floor. We like to go to events where we all get together and kind of talk about the things we're into.
Mayflower Hall also has its own convenience store, fitness center, and computer lab.
My name is Brooke Bernard and I work for Residence Education. I am the Assistant Director who oversees the living learning communities program.
Living learning communities are an opportunity for our students to meet other students with shared interests,
as well as get to know partners who are faculty and staff and members of the Iowa City community who volunteer their time
to connect with students around these interests.The housing application process is really simple. It's broken into two stages.
In the first stage you select your top five living learning communities and you get to see the list of all 32 options,
read all of them, pick the ones that are right for you. Then it is really important that you rank that list because that is gonna
guide how you move through the process in stage two. Stage two is all about picking your room.
So you get to see all the beds on campus that have been dedicated to your top five LLCs.
The beauty of the LLCs is the variety and those special moments and the programs that are designed just for you
based on you interest and who you wanna be and where you want to go.
Be sure to check out our On Location west side housing video. Until next time, I’m Allison!