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Score: +125 for not needing a shuttle to get to class, -50 because the airport still requires a taxi...
...dining hall, like most of above-ground Lowell, is gorgeous. With its fancy chandeliers, huge windows, yellow walls, and high ceilings, it is the perfect place to eat. When the opera comes to town (every spring), though, it gets a bit more cramped and the dining restrictions border on ridiculous—no guests allowed. It is pretty embarrassing when you show up with a non-Lowell buddy during opera season and get turned away from your own House’s dining hall. But for most of the year, Lowell is a great place to dine with friends; it?...
Most of Lowell’s useful common spaces are underground. It is a pretty ugly world down there, but at least you'll be protected from the elements. When the weather gets bad, you can get pretty much wherever you want to go in Lowell via the tunnels. There are two classrooms in the basement, which are great for study groups. There’s also the library, which doesn’t have bars over its books. For a more lively studying environment, you can work in the dining hall, which is always open and usually pretty well...
Lowell has some pretty sweet events. Sophomores get to go on a boat cruise down the Charles with Dorothy and Diana. The House also plays host to speakers organized just for Lowellians. For example, this past week, we had former U.S. Soliciter General Seth P. Waxman '73 and a bank-robber-turned-jail-house-legal-expert in the Junior Common Room fielding questions from students for over an hour...
Sophomores don’t get much say in their rooming assignments. You fill out a form and then it is up to House Administrator Beth Terry to sort out the rest. Expect a walk-through your first year here. The rooms can be a bit small, especially compared to your friends’ suites in the Quad or your linkmates’ rooms in Adams. But the housing gets better (Lowell is certainly no Winthrop). Next year, Lowell will be taking over a floor of DeWolfe, so sophomores will also have that option. Eventually, if you are looking...