More on Susie....

Per Jr. Mom's request:

The map at right is an excerpt of an actual map of campus. There aren't too many of them, but unfortunately, the website's map isn't exactly to scale. You can see the President's house at the top, just over Route 2, and proceeding south from there, one goes over West, the Science Center, Morley Circle (home of the MCC, BSU, QSU, etc), Doughty co-op, and finally, at the very bottom, to Susie Hopkins house.

That it's a little off the beaten path is a bit of an understatement, but with a campus as small as Williams's, that means Paresky is less than a 1/2 mile away by foot. In addition, you're very close to Tunnel City and Spring Street. It's nothing difficult, especially by bike, and although the contour lines are hard to see, Susie's on a nice little hill with a great view up campus.

The real genius of Susie, however, is all found in the floor plan (PDF). As you can see, the whole house holds but 9 residents, and there's a giant kitchen with a breakfast nook, and a magnificent pantry.

An added bonus is in our good pick # and the rooms my group got. I'll almost certainly be in 201, which has a real closet (gasp), access to the private porch/balcony that looks out over the woods, and might also be in the Top 10 list for largest rooms on campus.

Add in a large living/common room, a working fireplace w/ mantle, a nice staircase, two fridges (maybe we'll unplug one and save energy?), great housemates, and lots of friends coming to cook without the interruptions in dorms, and you have a great place to spend your last year. How's that do it?

PS: One interesting pattern I noticed: Last year, Susie had at least two folks who were at WEPO my freshman year, and this year, there are also two WEPOers living in Susie (at least). Next year, I have two WEPOers living with me in the house. The chances of this happening have to be absolutely minuscule, but that's life, I suppose.