153 Hemenway Street Reviews

The community is super close-knit, would not have chosen anything else. The location is awesome (Marino, fens, steast). I lived in a quad room with a private bathroom. It was a little suffocating at times, but a year later I’m still best friends w those ppl so I honestly would recommend it still. No AC which sucks for like 2 weeks but it works out fine. Also fire escapes were fun.

Great location, super close to dining halls and central campus. However, there is no ac and it gets super hot in early fall, rooms are pretty cramped (and sooo many triples+quads), no elevator which means it’s especially hard when moving in + out. Good luck if you live on the 4th floor. Bathrooms are nice, it’s very nice having an actual bathroom instead of a communal one with stalls. Mine actually had a pretty nice bathtub/shower. Most beds are lifted as most of the dorms are economy. Some rooms have common areas with a few pieces of furniture, i believe it’s the -27s. Most people had rats/mice in their dorm, 4th floor was lucky. Good luck if you’re in 153, but you’ll make it work.

Location is great, right across from 2 dining halls and like 2 minutes away from the mail room, and if you luck out and get a -19 -21 -23 or -25 room, you get a nice view of the street and a gorgeous bay window. However, the rooms themselves suck. The carpets are chock full of dust, the foam covers on the radiator pipes are breaking down and falling apart, outlets almost fall out of the wall. The bathroom is vile, our floor had a few degree tilt so any shower water that spilled pooled under the toilet and stayed there, leaving mold to grow all around the wall. -19 bathrooms have a window directly facing the stairway across the fire escape, and the one in 0219 wasn’t frosted so they could see inside whether it was open or not. Lack of elevat... See more

Honestly, living here was so much fun because it was different and quirky! Some things I didn't like was that my 6-person suite didn't have a common room, and my room faced an alley so I had very little sunlight and my plants weren't thriving. But other than that, it was really great and I loved the vibe of this building!

Private bathroom which is the best part because most freshman have communal ones. Tiny room for four people though, you’ll never have alone time. Hot in fall

Just the worst. Always so hot in the winter and you couldn’t adjust the heating. Having a shared bathroom between 6 girls was also disgusting— no matter how much we cleaned it. There’s also no elevator, so it’s rly hard to move in/out of, especially if you’re on a higher floor. I’ll certainly not miss this building in the slightest.

Lived in a double in a 5 person suite. Honestly it’s not a nice building, and the floor was uneven, our window got no natural light. That said I wouldn’t want to live anywhere else. You get a private bathroom which is so nice compared to communal, it’s a great location, and you bond with the people there as it’s such a small residence hall. Every room is completely different so you might luck out with one of the biggest rooms on campus or you might get one of the tiny ones, you won’t know until you get there. Either way it beats steast and stwest which are tiny and look like prison cells and have no private bathroom.

I was in a six-person "suite" my freshman year consisting of three doubles connected by a hallway, with the doubles on one side and a bathroom and storage closet on the other. It SUCKED. Each room was a different size (the middle one was the largest), and sharing a bathroom with five other people (and no common area either!) was inconvenient, to say the least. The floor was gross and uneven carpeting, and my room was TINY. There were two windows in my room (overlooking the wall of another building lol), a small closet, and of course two desks/dresser drawers/desks/chairs. The location is great in my opinion - near the edge of campus, but right across the road from both dining halls (steast and stwest), and pretty close walking distance to a... See more

Grimy old building with carpeting and no elevator. Such a pain to move in to when carrying your stuff up the stairs especially if you're on like the 4th floor. I had to really vacuum my room thoroughly, and even then the vacuum the building lent to me was crap. I was in a suite where I had a double with 1 roommate but had to share a bathroom with 5 other people. If your suite mates are gross and don't help you clean, or if everyone wants to get ready at the same time in the morning, it's quite a pain.

Honestly good location as a freshman and a safe area/building. Living in an economy triple with lofted beds was not necessarily great but I loved my roommates so it all worked out. We had our own bathroom which was nice as it wasn’t nasty communal. You will make friends with the mice and come to know that the heat is not consistent but beats Steast or Stwest