Living-Learning Center
The Living-Learning Center (LLC) comprises Hartley and Wallach residence halls. It houses a portion of first year students, as well as sophomores, juniors and seniors. Students living in the LLC agree to attend suite or floor study breaks every week, and larger building-wide events every month. It is also noted as the only dry dorm housing upperclassmen. Few student actually comply with these requirements, as the RAs don't really want to do it either, let alone force others to participate. LLC administration has attempted to crack down on this by making the LLC application ridiculously long to discourage students who just want the room. As a result, applications have plunged in the last two years. Some say that the residents are actually more dedicated now, but many residents say otherwise. The LLC tends to be short on freshman who want to live there, and is sometimes the university is forced to place freshman there who would rather live somewhere else.
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Advantages and disadvantages of living in the LLC
Advantages
- Great suite lounges that feel like a real living room.
- Kitchen and bathroom are in the suite, so you can cook and don't have to traipse down a long corridor in a bathrobe.
- About half of the rooms for freshmen are singles.
- The LLC is more sociable than John Jay Hall (but less than Carman Hall).
- The elevator is reliable (but damn slow).
Disadvantages
- Bathrooms are co-ed, but you get used to it.
- The buildings are largely full of sophomores and even juniors and seniors.
- Suite common areas end up pretty dirty because not everyone in the suite are friends.
- You have to participate in "community programming" events and stuff, since it's supposed to be the "Living-Learning Center". Nobody takes it seriously, not even the RAs.
