Residential College

I've been assigned to Morningside College!

I'm really happy about this because I requested Morningside as my residential college (on the college request form we all had to fill out). There were several reasons for this.

#1: Having only being completed in 2010, Morningside is the newest college. It has the newest facilities. It has the newest bathrooms. Enough said.
#2: The Master of the College is a Nobel laureate. It seems to be quite an academic college, and seeing as I'm there to study, this vibe should help keep me on the straight and narrow.
#3: One of the resident tutors is an ethnomusicologist. Enough said. (OK, maybe not enough said, but in my experience ethnomusicologists are never boring. Tal Kravitz's guest lecture at my university last year was brilliant and brilliantly funny. e.g. when an audience member tried to play the theramin, he comments "Its like making love to Shostakovich"). The other resident tutors seem really cool too.
#4: The college insists on mandatory participation in three communal dinners per week. Now this might sound like a drawback but I think it is a bonus. Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday nights (school nights) I don't have to think about cooking, and I have recently found out that there are vegetarian options available for every meal. I also like the chance of having a meal with someone you might not otherwise talk to, and no doubt there will be no shortage of interesting dinner conversation!

I am yet to find many pictures of the dorms at Morningside, seeing as most of the blogs of the international students I have found were living in the I-House.

and #5: I don't have to walk up these stairs every moring, as Morningside is closer to the main campus.