Hopkins CRIBS: McCoy Hall

Yes, that's right it's CRIBS! Acceptance letters went out today and let me just take this opportunity to send a HUGE congratulations to the regular decision acceptees of the class of 2012!. I'm going to give you a sneak peak into what your living situation could be if you come here your sophomore year.

So I'm currently living in McCoy Hall. We're across N. Charles St. from the library and Wolman, a freshman dorm, is right next door. Suites in this building generally have a kitchen, a bathroom, and either 2 double bedrooms or 2 singles and a double. I live in 2 doubles so I have my amazing roommate, Camilla, and Samantha and Tashi - my best friends from my floor freshman year in AMR II.

First, check out my video: we had a lot of fun making this, hope you enjoy it too!

Now the written tour! When you first walk in we have a hallway which we have decorated with christmas lights and advertisements of good looking gentlemen we've found in magazines. But have no fear, this is a democracy: we all have to vote a boy onto the wall.

The first room on the right is the bathroom. One of these pictures is of our amazing shower curtain, Camilla and I picked it out at the begining of the year and there are two matching floor rugs to go with it :) We have a relatively small bathroom for this building but we bought some storage to put our bathroom stuff (see video).

Then as you keep walking in you see our kitchen. Samantha and Mark were cooking when I took these pictures. We're having a big dinner party tonight: Chicken cabbbage fajitas and something else...southwest themed at any rate! We actually have 2 fridges: one came with the suite and it's the one Samantha is showing off here, and the other we rented from microfridges and it came with a little microwave (which we utilize very frequently I'll have you know.)

Moving on we have my room. Camilla and I have a Japanese theme going on and that explains the wall we use as a bookshelf and the banners up over both our desks and the bed. My desk has all  my essentials: computer, hard drive, tons of text books, and most importantly at the moment: Organic Chemistry. Then we have our bed and armoir. Normally double rooms come with two twin beds, I promise. Except in ours we pushed the beds together at the begining of the year and now it's like having a sleep over every night with your best friend. Kinda cool and I'm not going to lie, I'm a pretty short kid so having the two pushed together is the perfect length for me to curl up and be comfortable.

Finally we've got our window. We're on a pretty high floor so our windows have great views of campus and in Samantha and Tashi's room you can see a JHMI Shuttle stop and al the way down St. Paul street to the Inner Harbour. For anyone who saw my crib last year we had the grotto under my bed. Well the good news is it came with us this year! Now it sits under a window and it's usually where people sit when they come over for dinner or to study or just chat, what have you.

Well that's my room in a nutshell. As much as I loved AMR II last year, I love my suite maybe a weeeeee bit more this year. Having a kitchen has been amazing: I love cooking my own meals and I'm a pretty clean person, as are the people I'm living with, so we keep the bathroom clean and dishes in the kitchen done etc.

Comments

[JHU_Kate]

1. I think the decoration scheme of your bathroom is FANTASTIC!

2. Ditto about your kitchenette. It's probably one of the classiest in McCoy. :)

[Pete]

Awesome suite. Seems organized and similar to the one you had last year.

Btw, Le Tigre rules. Haha, I was like "Omg! Deceptacon!" when I watched the video.

[JHU_Roxi]

Haha thanks Pete, I absolutely love Le Tigre...

Actually, funny story, when I wrote my "Get to know Roxi" blog, for the question "what's your guilty pleasure" I was talking about Deceptacon and Circles by Incubus...they're just bad ass songs like that :)