Is 153 Hemenway Street the best dorm at Northeastern?

Just the worst. Always so hot in the winter and you couldn’t adjust the heating. Having a shared bathroom between 6 girls was also disgusting— no matter how much we cleaned it. There’s also no elevator, so it’s rly hard to move in/out of, especially if you’re on a higher floor. I’ll certainly not miss this building in the slightest.

Grimy old building with carpeting and no elevator. Such a pain to move in to when carrying your stuff up the stairs especially if you're on like the 4th floor. I had to really vacuum my room thoroughly, and even then the vacuum the building lent to me was crap. I was in a suite where I had a double with 1 roommate but had to share a bathroom with 5 other people. If your suite mates are gross and don't help you clean, or if everyone wants to get ready at the same time in the morning, it's quite a pain.

The room I had freshman year was pretty terrible - it was an economy quad with bunk beds and all the desks were crammed together. One of them was even blocking the fire escape illegally. There was no elevator, so carrying furniture up and down the stairs for moving in/out was a nightmare. No A/C as well. Would not recommend this dorm.

I was in a six-person "suite" my freshman year consisting of three doubles connected by a hallway, with the doubles on one side and a bathroom and storage closet on the other. It SUCKED. Each room was a different size (the middle one was the largest), and sharing a bathroom with five other people (and no common area either!) was inconvenient, to say the least. The floor was gross and uneven carpeting, and my room was TINY. There were two windows in my room (overlooking the wall of another building lol), a small closet, and of course two desks/dresser drawers/desks/chairs. The location is great in my opinion - near the edge of campus, but right across the road from both dining halls (steast and stwest), and pretty close walking distance to any of the campus buildings.

Location is great, right across from 2 dining halls and like 2 minutes away from the mail room, and if you luck out and get a -19 -21 -23 or -25 room, you get a nice view of the street and a gorgeous bay window. However, the rooms themselves suck. The carpets are chock full of dust, the foam covers on the radiator pipes are breaking down and falling apart, outlets almost fall out of the wall. The bathroom is vile, our floor had a few degree tilt so any shower water that spilled pooled under the toilet and stayed there, leaving mold to grow all around the wall. -19 bathrooms have a window directly facing the stairway across the fire escape, and the one in 0219 wasn’t frosted so they could see inside whether it was open or not. Lack of elevator made moving a pain, as well as doing laundry or trash runs from the higher floors. And oh god— the mice. Keep your food off the floor and you can avoid them, but once winter hits expect to find a few in the dorm. We caught 5 in spring semester between 2 rooms. If you end up here, good luck, make the best of it.