Dunham Residential College

"Best place to eat on campus. Less options, but better quality"

"Its better there.™"

"Beautiful Beautiful and safe!"

"DISCLAIMER: I was a 2020 freshman AKA COVID freshman. My experiences may become less applicable as COVID regulations and expectations fade. However, my experience with Dunham College was still not great. It never felt like a community. I lived on the third floor. Only one of my floormates spoke to me, and he wasn't even the RA (shout-out to Chris for being a homie). Everyone avoided contact with each other like crazy. I spoke to my RA once on GroupMe because I had scheduled an intentional. I showed up 10 minutes early and waited until about 10 minutes into our scheduled time before giving up. I reached out to him on GroupMe about it, asking him whether or not I was expected to reschedule even though he was the one who had failed to show. He said yes, so I asked when worked for him. I never heard from him again. He never spoke to me in the halls, never sent me personal emails. I only ever heard from him through mass emails through RoomPact. I won't call him out because I don't know his circumstances. However, I do think his actions were unprofessional. Next: the bathrooms. Oh my goodness, y'all. I know I have higher cleanliness expectations that a lot of people, but ew. While the housekeeping staff did clean the bathrooms daily, they were community bathrooms. You may think, "Oh, well, we're all adults. We know how to use a bathroom." You would be wrong. Every day I would wake up to wash my face and brush my teeth to find the sinks soaked in water because SOMEONE doesn't know how to clean up after themselves. They would sling the water from the first sink all the way down to the fourth. You can't touch or set anything down on the counters without cleaning the whole sink. They would spray water all over the mirrors too. I watched them do this multiple times, even saying something on several occasions. Nothing changed, and I found no support from the RA. In fact, the RA was more sympathetic to the person making all the messes. People would throw up on the floor, leave pee on the seats, clog the drains. Maintenance rarely fixed things. In fact, over winter break while my roommate and I were gone, our ceiling began to leak. When we came back and found the paint ruined and our carpet moldy, we sent our first maintenance request (of three) in January. I'm writing this review in May, and they still have not fixed it. Also, in October, our shower was locked and a sign was put up saying maintenance coming soon (or something to that effect), but it wasn't fixed until some time into the second semester. The family restroom has been unavailable for months now. People stole holiday decorations off our door and spread them throughout the third floor. Someone even stole the sign with our room number leaving a huge whole in the paint in the hallway. The laundry machines may ruin your clothes. At the very least, they will leave everything covered in lint. People don't know how laundromats work either and will do stupid things like not look before paying for a machine to see if someone is still using the machine (like literally in the process of moving their stuff to a dryer). Or they won't pay for the machine before loading their stuff into it. My neighbors to the right were EXTREMELY LOUD. It sounds like they have a subwoofer or two in their dorm and are not afraid to use it well into the early hours of the morning. They constantly had people over. My roommate and I would bang on the walls and tell them to be quiet, and they'd be quiet for a little bit. But they would still progressively get louder again. The RA (even though he literally lives right across the hall from them and two doors down from our room) never did anything about it. When I tell upperclassmen I live in the residential colleges, they usually say the food was really good! Yeah, no. It tastes like regular cafeteria food. Really dry burgers and chicken and nachos. Every. Day. Freshman 15? Not with the food they served for the 2020-2021 school year. At least it's pretty, I guess. Not worth the roughly $1,000/month you pay for it."

"Imagine living at Hogwarts, and you have the Dunham residential experience, minus the magic, wonder, uniqueness. However, don't let that deter you; they have legos in the game room. I once made a disturbing creation there (it's dead now, sadly). The dining hall has several options, but "Sweet Street" has encountered issues recently, which is probably a deal-breaker for most. At they have I got bored writing about food so lets talk about the music room. The music room features a piano, metronome, xylophone, and bongo. Unfortunately, the bongo is broken which I consider to be the only valid musical instrument, therefore rendering the music room the room of broken dreams and infinite disappointment. Also, have any of yall heard Eminem's new album? Godzilla is pretty fire, it's kinda like classic Eminem. I mean, the third verse ends with lyrics at the same speed as the 'supersonic speed' part of Rap God but over twice as long. It's absolutely bonkers."