Is Smith Hall the best dorm at Northeastern?

Cozy room, but no ac. Put into a forced triple, while others got a double to themselves. Very much a lottery on how nice your room is, as some rooms have multiple closets, while my roommates and I share a single closet. Despite the cleaning times being posted outside, the bathrooms are rarely cleaned and they never show up during their scheduled hours. I have only ever seen the cleaning crew once and was disappointed by their actions, as they only worked to make the bathroom dirtier. I watched them dump a bucket of dirty towel water into a sink, only to leave the debris behind. Communal bathrooms are always disgusting. Hair clumps left there for days at a time. Cockroaches left there for days. It's often hotter in the dorm than outside, which makes Smith uninhabitable. Moved a desk in my room to reposition it and there were chunks of debris and dirt from previous residents, indicating that the room has never been fully cleaned. When I first arrived at the dorm, there was also dirt all over my mattress, as if someone had taken their outside shoes and marched all over my bed (which doesn't make sense as my bed is lofted). Amenities, such as "gaming tables" are a joke, as it is a foosball table and pool table that look like they've never been replaced since the school opened.

I had an economy triple, the size of the room was ok, but everything is super old and falling apart.

My roommate and I had an economy double (which we didn’t ask for and would’ve been happy to pay a few hundred dollars more for a livable room) and had no idea what to expect because all of the economy doubles range immensely in size. When I first got there, I thought I was being punked. Our room was right between an electrical closet and a supply closet so that definitely made me feel like it wasn’t originally a room. That room was too small for one person let alone two. ALL of the floor space was taken up by our lofted beds, desks and dressers underneath, and the mini fridge I brought. There was less than 3 feet between our beds and practically zero space to move. I couldn’t even sit up in my bed because it was lifted and too close to the ceiling! We had two indents in the wall, each with a rod and those were our “closets”. We tried alerting housing that our room was DEFINITELY a fire hazard but they said there was no where else they could move us. HORRIBLE ROOM!! The worst part is that a lot of the rooms in smith are a decent size but you just don’t know what you’re going to get. The rest of the buildings just fine sub par compared to other NU housing. The only common areas are in the basement (there are no study rooms or common areas on the floors) which makes it difficult to meet people and causes problems when more than a few groups want to use the common spaces. The bathrooms aren’t terrible for communal bathrooms and do get cleaned daily which is nice.

Room situation is really a gamble. Me and my roommate got a forced double and if we didn’t become best friends it wouldn’t be livable with a random person. There is no room for personal space. Aside from this, there are mice that take over the first floor. They go in and out of the cracks of the door plus get into the room through holes in the wall. It’s disgusting and ridiculous to have to live with. I would suggest getting some sort of stopper to block the crack between the door and floor prior to moving in and a set of backup mouse traps. The picture is our room on move in day so it’s cluttered but that is the whole room. Bathrooms are probably the only nice thing about the dorm because of how updated they are.

I would say my room was a standard room size in smith, it came with unlofted beds but the flooring was uneven and stuff kept falling of my desk, so my roommate and I lofted our beds and we had a lot of space. We had a tiny tiny walk in with hooks and a hanging rack. I lived on the first floor and before moving-in check for ANY potentially holes in the walls or between the carpeting, there is a high possibility that rodent problems will start during the colder months. Apart from that the bathroom are fairly clean and having both trash rooms and laundry rooms on the same floor are convenient. I really enjoyed the location (Fens, Newbury and Boylston, prudential, cvs and wholefoods are super close by). There are 2 different lounges and its great for watching movies and studying.