Is Hastings Hall the best dorm at Northeastern?

Pros: Its a single room on campus near the northeastern subway stop. Cons: There are recovering drug addicts living in the same building one floor away from student housing. There is no air conditioning and the room will be in the high 80s and low 90s in the summer with a median of 86 degrees. There are vomit stains on the shower curtains. The walls are peeling and the rooms are not properly cleaned before you move in. There is no stair access to the room and only one elevator. There is a smoking area on the street below so smoke and weed can often be smelled when opening the window. There is no control over the heating which has turned on in the summer unnecessarily. Don't live here in the summer. It will damage your mental health greatly.

This building was the worst dorm I’ve ever stayed in during my time at NEU as a fourth year. Do not live here during the summer, you will be hot and sweating all the time because there is no AC. There is a cockroach problem and it took maintenance almost an entire day to solve the problem and by the time they came, the roach was gone. The bathrooms were always dirty and never seemed clean. The building is extremely sketchy and as a girl I felt uncomfortable living there. Those who lived in the YMCA apartments would hang outside the building at nighttime. It always reeked of cigarette smoke. It’s nice being close to campus but this dorm made my summer on co-op horrible and I was miserable the entire time. It is nice having a single but it was extremely small. Live in IV or another dorm, the single is not worth the mental breakdown this building caused me

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Old building, many rats.Thin wall. My neighbors play guitar at 3 am and I can hear in my room. Loud AC and you can not adjust the temp. Bath sometimes got blocked by hair. People throw toilet paper on the floor. Sensitive fire alarm. Only one good thing is it’s location. Very close to business school but far from science halls.

This building has a serious problem with pest control. I saw mice on a regular basis and had to have traps in my room. Dead cockroaches were a frequent occurrence in the hallways and bathroom, though thankfully I never saw a live one. The bathroom is communal, and it wasn’t terrible but the showers seemed to never be cleaned and the heat was turned up way too high all year. The building doesn’t have AC, but the heat does work well. I was on the recently-renovated third floor, and the rooms are very small but I had no issue with that. The elevator broke down frequently, and there is no stair access. When the elevator breaks down, you have to pass a proctor and go into the YMCA part of the building to use their elevator, which can be rather inconvenient. Also, the fire alarm goes off every week or two. The building isn’t great but the location is admittedly very good, and it’s within easy access of the Symphony area as well as all of campus.