Is Apartments and Townhouses at 1855 Place the best dorm at MSU?
Students rated Apartments and Townhouses at 1855 Place a 4.3/5 stars. Here's what they had to say.
Pros: Central heating/cooling, excellent location, access to a variety of dining options covered by the meal plan. My room is spacious, it comes with a desk (with a drawer and a small cupboard), a capacious dresser, and a rack to hang my clothes on, as well as a small chair. (The chair is kind of uncomfortable, but that's easily remedied with a pillow.) The kitchen has a large island (with outlets, so that's nice for a toaster, air fryer, blender, etc) and there is lots of space around the sink as well—plenty of space for a dish drying rack, if you choose not to take advantage of the dishwasher in the apartment. The dishwasher is our fifth roommate, it's so reliable, and we're all immeasurably grateful for it. The stove, oven, and refrigerator are all also very nice. The only slight thing to note is that for whatever reason, the apartment fire alarms are over the stove. They are very sensitive, so they will go off at the slightest hint of smoke. Thankfully, there are vents and you can open a window in the living room to counter that. However, if you do not address your apartment's fire alarm within a minute of it going off, the entire building will be forced to evacuate. No one knows which apartment set off the alarm, but it is nonetheless somewhat embarrassing. Cons: The main building of 1855, 1801, has 5 floors. We have 2 stairwells and 1 elevator, so the floors are easily accessible. My only minor gripe about the actual structure of the building is that we don't have a trash chute. I'm being picky, I know, but I'd rather not have to walk outside every time I want to throw out garbage. The bathrooms have the light switches on the outside of the room, so if you have particularly forgetful or mean-spirited roommates, you will be left in the dark in the bathroom, which is uncomfortable because the bathrooms have no windows or ventilation. Our bathroom may have some mold growing on the ceiling, and when we reported it to facilities they told us to leave the bathroom open (as if we don't except for when we're showering!) and told us it was essentially our problem. That was frustrating because other than showering with the door open, there's no way to ventilate the bathroom, so we've resorted to managing(?) the mold by occasionally wiping some bleach on the ceiling and leaving it to dry. The last con is the rent. I live in a 4-bedroom economy, and my rent is $809/month per roommate, so that's $3236 per month in total. One might question whether the apartment is worth that. The reason why I like living here is because I do not have access to car, so as a junior I don't have the option to live off-campus without access to reliable transportation.
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