Is Fu Hall the best dorm at Princeton?

Students rated Fu Hall a 4.1/5 stars. Here's what they had to say.

I got a spectacular double on the fourth floor that faces across Poe Field, and my roommate and I can see Dillon Gym and Rocky/Mathey from our window. The rooms are brand new and super spacious, at least for doubles. Fu Hall is especially nice because you can take the elevator straight down to the dining hall, and there is laundry on the second floor. The hallways are illuminated with sunlight as there are a good amount of windows and lights, and the common rooms are great open spaces as well. The bathrooms are gender neutral which means that there is often a lot of hair that you are dealing with on a constant basis.

A bit far from the rest of campus, but it's nice being in a new dorm room and building. It's pretty clean, and the dining hall is great.

Since the building is brand new, there are still some kinks being worked out, but it's nice to be in a new building with convenient access to the dining hall!

Communal bathrooms were kept mostly clean, and most of the time had hot water, but most importantly, they were very private, with the ability to lock shower and bathroom doors, and basically have a private bathroom to yourself. The actual building is brand new and very modern, and it's usually very clean, but since it's new, there were a few things not fully resolved. The fire alarm goes off randomly once every two weeks or so (occasionally at like 3 a.m. too), the hot water would just stop some nights, and the stairs next to the main entrance of Fu have been unusable since Day 1, which is both incredibly annoying and incredibly stupid. How do stairs not work??? The thermometers were also weird, especially for the first few weeks, and having a room be too hot or cold with no ability to change it was common, although this has gotten much better. There were times where our room his 80 degrees/61 degrees though, even when it was set at 69 with all the windows and doors closed. I'd like to emphasize that this was rare and hasn't happened recently. It often didn't move more than 5 degrees from where it was set though, so it was overall fine. The windows and doors are problematic sometimes, as you need to shut some doors very hard for them to lock, and some windows are somewhat broken, and you need to close them a specific way to get them to fully close in my experience. The elevator for Fu goes right to the dining hall if you hit the ground floor button, and it's not as far away from everything as mannion, so overall it was pretty solid. The laundry room is also in Fu, so it's only an elevator ride to the second floor to get to it. Yeh is a bit of a walk from most buildings in general, but it's not bad, especially if you are an engineer (many first year engineering classes are on or close to the south side of campus, where Yeh is) or have a bike/scooter. Even the furthest walk (Equad) is only 15 minutes, which at most other college campuses is pretty reasonable, and can be made in 11 or 12 minutes if you speedwalk and don't have to deal with foot traffic. The Yeh/NCW dining hall is also probably the best dining hall, and it's only an elevator ride away from Fu, so this is fantastic. I had a quad, which was enough space for 4 people, and it wasn't really crowded, but it's not massive. It is modern though, and everything works for the most part. Location is probably the worst thing about Yeh, but it's certainly not bad. The common rooms, lounge rooms, and kitchens in Yeh are pretty good too, with comfortable seating and a great place to sit and talk with friends and hang out. Everything is nicely colored too, typically red, orange, or something along those lines, so it looks warm and friendly. Since the college was just built, it's overall pretty good, and probably the best place to live, but this is subjective of course. Not a perfect 5 star experience, but it's probably as close as you'll get to one, especially if you don't mind a walk.

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