HWS knows the importance of feeling a part of a community.
The Office of Residential Education creates engaging and unique opportunities for students, ranging from first-year only areas to upperclassmen areas, each with a focus on student development and comfort. To program to each student's specific needs, we have our area divided into five distinct neighborhoods. First year students are housed primarily by their first-year seminar in double, triple, or quad rooms. The Residential Education staff places first year students in buildings and rooms once they are in a first-year seminar and complete a general housing questionnaire that helps staff find compatible roommates. First-year students are housed one of three on-campus neighborhoods: JPR First Year Neighborhood (Jackson, Potter, and Rees), the MiniQuad Neighborhood (Hale, Bartlett, Durfee, and Sherrill), or the William Smith Hill Neighborhood (Comstock, Hirshon, and Miller). Upperclass students pick rooms and roommates through the lottery process that takes place during the spring semester. This process, which includes applications to the theme houses, is described in detail on the Housing Selection for Current Students page. Upperclass students are housed in Geneva, Medberry, Blackwell, Comstock, Hirshson, Miller, McCormick, Emerson, deCordova, Caird, Odell's Pond View, and New Future Manor (also known as 380 South Main St). Only junior and senior students may live at the Village at Odell's Pond and New Future Manor (commonly known as 380).