Where to Live Your Freshman Year Based on Your Personality

Where to Live Your Freshman Year Based on Your Personality At the University of Illinois, there are plenty of living arrangements for your Freshman year. Here, Ill discuss a few University Housing options and a few Private Certified Housing options. Private Certified Housing Bromley Hall Gif from Giphy.com Bromley Hall is Private Certified residence hall  for undergraduate students. If social life is important to you, the Bromley is the place to live. Many students are from the Northern suburbs of Chicago, so there is a great sense of community within Bromley. Bromley offers study rooms on each floor, as well as suite-style rooms with shared bathrooms and showers. The downside of Bromley is that you do not get university food credits, and therefore dont have credits to use at  I-57 (a university-run convenience store), other dining halls, or The Caffeinator (a  coffee shop run by university dining). Newman Hall Gif from Giphy.com Newman Hall is another residence hall thats part of Private Certified Housing. Newman is a co-ed, religiously-affiliated community that offers both suite-style and traditional-style rooms. If you are looking for the perfect balance of social life and school, Newman is perfect for you. Like Bromley, you will not get credits to use at other residence halls. University Housing Ikenberry Commons Gif from Giphy.com Also know as, The Ike, Ikenberry Commons is a group of residence halls  all located in the same area. The Ike includes Hopkins Hall, Nugent Hall, Weston Hall, Wassaja, Bousfield, Scott, Snyder, and Taft Van-Doren. Some of these dorms are more updated than others, and all offer a traditional style of housing. Many of these halls  are co-ed. All of them  offer credits, which can be used at any university dining hall, as well as any of the university-run stores. The Ike is one of the most common areas for undergraduate students to live. Pennsylvania Avenue Residence   gif from Giphy.com Pennsylvania Avenue Residence, or PAR for short, is located in Urbana. It is co-ed by floor and offers a few living-learning communities. The rooms are standard dorm style. PAR is typically quieter than other dorms, so finding a quiet place to study is never a problem. Again, PAR has credits that can be used at any dining hall or any university-run store. Rachel Class of 2020 I am studying Middle Grades Education with concentrations in Social Sciences and Literacy in the College of Education. Although I now reside in Champaign, I am originally from Vernon Hills, a Northwest suburb of Chicago.