Ranking the Dorms at Illinois State University

Overall, the worst tri tower. Furthest from everything, not connected to the dining hall, no mail room, no subway, no cool light bridge. The only benefit was that our fire alarm went off 4 times over the span of the year rather than 40.

The rooms are reasonably sized, and you definitely have to personalize them to make em feel better, but unless you feel like junior/lofting or bunking your beds you're not gonna have much space at all.

The busses fill at cardinal, so good luck catching a bus for your 8 am that isnt a 7am bus. - 1 year ago

This dorm has a lot of the themed living communities, which is a floor that is mostly for a major. My floor was sometimes loud which got annoying. There’s a Subway connected to this building. I wasn’t a fan of the bathrooms here. In the basement of this building is the laundry room, computer lab, vending machines, the tutoring center, and private rooms to practice music. - 2 years ago

The elevators go down at least once a month, and there’s no connected dining hall. However, there is a subway, tutoring, a gym, and a kitchen. This hall holds mostly TLLC floors, so you’ll meet a lot of different people in your community or others. - 1 year ago

Watterson Towers is the most popular dorm building at ISU, very common for freshman. The rooms are pretty decent sizes compared to some of the other dorms. However, its not the most quiet place, definitely not the most clean place. There's always spills or trash on the ground and in the elevator. SPEAKING of elevators, They always take forever to come and are always breaking down. Other than that it's a great place to meet new people, you will definitely have a lot of fun experiences - 2 years ago