Is Lee Hall the best dorm at Virginia Tech?

The women's bathroom got disgusting by the end of the weekend. You couldn't see the shower floor for hair, and every trash can was FULL of period products. At the end of the year I was showering on Friday, skipping the weekend, and then showering on Monday because it was so nasty.

If you enjoy old carpets that haven't been updated in years, and awful fluorescent lights in your dorm room, you are in luck! Lee Hall is easily the worst residential building on VT's campus, and it really shows. Usually 2 of the 4 elevators in the buildings are down and unusable, meaning most students have to walk up multiple flights of stairs to get to their dorm rooms. Generally, the public bathrooms in the halls are pretty nasty even though they are cleaned once a day, the shower drains are often filled with pubic hairs/random long hairs clogging the drain and making it so you step in about 2 inches of water anytime you need to take a shower. PLEASE purchase some shower shoes before you live in this building, or else you will seriously regret it. The lack of AC is absolutely awful, and the rooms stink of 50+ years of previous college living when the windows are closed in the dead of winter. The only thing that made this building worth living in was the camaraderie because everyone that lives there is in the struggle together, and you get to meet some pretty cool people in this hall. Good air conditioned lounge on the second floor, otherwise no AC in the building.

The only reason to live in this dorm is for the studio, which tbh is pretty nice. Overall it’s not bad but not great. If you are living here living in a low floor, the uppers get super hot. Pro: Lots of other engineers Good community Studio Cons: No A/C Terrible bathrooms Small rooms Far away from campus Overall:2.5/5 there are worse but there are better dorms

The literal only benefit to living in Lee Hall was the presence of the Galileo and Hypatia living learning communities. There was no air conditioning, one bathroom at either end of the hall, and some truly awful building management. The only kitchen available in the entire building was in the large lounge on the second floor and it may as well have been non-existent when I live there because it was so bad. The kitchen and large lounge have been remodeled since.

There is no A/C but Blacksburg rarely gets hot enough for that to matter during the fall/spring semesters. Lee isn't very far from anything, but it isn't really close to anything either. Being a member of an LLC can be very beneficial as you'll be taking the same classes as the people you're living with. Take advantage of this and study together, share notes, and ask one another for help. The makerspace on the second floor is something almost no other forms/schools have so take advantage of that while you can. When I was here the lounge did not have A/C although it might now. The rooms do not and probably won't have A/C as far as I know.