Hermann Viets Tower Dorm Reviews at Wisconsin

My experience at Viets Tower has been really fun. I really enjoy being in the common area with my friends when we do homework because it's nice to have a separate workspace from my room. I also enjoy the connections I have made with my floormates from spending that extra time together. All the Residents Assistants are really helpful and extremely nice as well.

Bathrooms are poorly cleaned (got athletes foot from the showers), hand soap and paper towels are not replenished regularly, elevators break frequently and are not fixed, doors have no sound insulation and many are adjacent to common areas (loud), laundry machines were installed wrong (can only use half of them and once) and never fixed. Not worth the price.

The floor assignments are typically based on your interests and age. most people living here are freshman or sophmores. If you are friends with the other people on the floor it is an amazing place to be. but most of the dorms open to the common space so privacy is kind of difficult because everyone sees you enter and leave your room. There is only one shower per floor with actual water pressure and hot water is hard to get. I schedule my showers at weird times so I am not freezing. the views from the dorms though are a 50/50. one side faces an apartment building the other looks out over the river and city scape.

It’s very clean and quiet, and since it’s a new building it has very good heating/cooling systems. I also think that it has a very confident location, as it’s close to the main buildings for those in engineering.