life with the University of Rochester begins in the residence halls
more than 4340 of our students live in the ninth undergraduate areas we have
here besides convenience there are plenty of reasons to live on campus
studies show that students who live in on-campus housing have higher GPAs and
greater satisfaction with their college experience convenience the support and
leadership opportunities are all great reasons to live on campus but we know
what you're really here for the rooms most rooms are doubles which means you
have two beds two desks two chairs two dressers and two closets
now some halls have triples or even singles in that case we just adjust the
furniture every Hall is unique so rooms types configurations and dimensions
differ while the rooms are a big piece you may be interested in some other
areas of the hall like the community bathrooms they're pretty standard but
they're clean for you which is one less thing you have to worry about another
thing you don't have to worry about laundry facilities because every all has
one and it's free our halls also have study areas community lounges and
kitchens and some halls even have other amenities living on campus you'll be
surrounded by people who want to help you succeed
we have resident directors EHRs and Ras whose job is to create living
communities in each Hall we also have fellows and d'lions they also live in
the hall there our job is to help you feel supported with our academics and
also get you involved on campus we also have maintenance custodial and res life
staff we're here to keep the place running and clean and lastly since
safety and security are a big part of our residential halls they have a public
safety liaison who is centered at every campus hall
like I said before UR residential life is all about you and your success
there's something for everyone in our first year areas so let's check them out
a little more in-depth welcome to the first year Hill including Genesee and
susan b anthony halls the hill is the largest first-year area on-campus
housing about 800 students this big friendly community is located near Rush
Rhees library Danforth Dining Center and hillside
market are inside so let's go check it out
hello everyone my name is Peter and I'm an RA for the first year hails so we're
going to show you guys a super room really quick
so you have pretty much two of everything you have two beds and
mattresses two closets right over there behind us two dressers and then two
chairs and desks it's something that's supposed to be just used to be an they
are the accent wall so every room comes with its own accent wall which looks
kind of nice do you don't have just the white on
black and white right over here on the desk we have this little hutch here
that has a light so you can actually do studying in your own room without
bothering your roommate and also not having to worry about going over to the
library the bed's allow for different ways of personalizing your room so you
can do a couple different heights this is going to be the tallest height other
than lofting and this is what they come with when you guys move in we're going
to take a look at a genestein room really quickly so this is basically
comparable in size to most of the first rooms that we have on campus this one's
going to be a little bit longer as opposed to the ones in Sue B which
we've seen which are a little bit deeper
some other spaces on the hill include the Sue B reading room a great lounge
with games and TV the seventh floor solarium with a great view of Rush Rhees
and a kitchen on every floor
welcome to the first year quad including Gilbert Hoeing and Tiernan
halls this traditional style area houses about seven hundred and twenty
first-year students the quad is located in the collegiate residential quad close
to Wilson Commons and Douglas Dining Center the quad has a great
community feel in the heart of campus activities so let's check it out
hello I'm standing here on the first year quad in
Hoeing Hall and I'm here to show you a double size room. The rooms are
unique because there's a lot of room in the center I recommend pushing
everything to the walls and you'll have a nice space to hang out with friends
when you move into your first-year dorm your beds come at a level-3 height this
is the tallest height of that could be unless you loft it it fits perfectly
one of these dressers render me that frees up some space in your room you
have a hunch right here along the desk the hunch is really useful because it
contains a small little outlet that you can use to charge your phone your
computer anything musical and you have a nice
chair that rocks back a little bit so on the walls it's pretty easy a decorated
ornament put up what I really like as I'm not a fire hazard and you can use
this wrap on the top to pin different items that you'd like to have in your
room also right over here we have a white board and a cork board you can use
your cork board to tell your friends all about what you're doing on campus so say
you have this a great event coming up use this cork board put up a flyer and
hopefully your friends will come we also have a white board really good for
communications say you have a job interview like you don't want people
coming here who you can write job interview one to three please do not
disturb the first year quad has a lounge on every floor with white boards for
studying a fully equipped laundry room and each hall and a music practice room
For ideas on what and what not to bring be sure to check out our website
which has plenty of information welcome to the University of Rochester and
welcome home