Welcome to Smith Medical Center Hall: caring for pampered students since 2006.

This is how the University decided to compete with private housing; building suite-style apartment-type things that shouldn’t even count as dorms.

An extra $750 buys a huge room with a walk-in closet the size of a Chadbourne room, one bathroom for every five people, AC, an in-house market, and one of the most anti-social living experiences possible. All the room doors close and lock automatically and a special security key fob is needed to get anywhere. The whole building feels like a cross between a hotel and a psych ward.

Here’s the problem: Smith and New Ogg together house about the same number of people Ogg did alone. Why did the university put out all this money for posh new dorms without adding to the total number of rooms when there’s a housing shortage? What a screw.

Need it: a door stop
Leave it: head phones