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Pros:
* All the dorms are beautiful. They are way more spacious than you think and way nicer looking in person than how they look on the CU Boulder website.
* The common areas are very nice. There's a study room on each floor that has desks, tables, windows. There's couches and more comfy places to sit in the lobby. There's vending machines and foosball and ping pong. You're never going to have to struggle to find a place to study.
* The building also has classrooms in it for RAP classes (courses you'll take in the dorm, which is so convenient and so worth it), and if there isn't a class going on, you can use the classrooms to study in too.
* Arnett is right next to the Wolf Law library and the lake, both lovely places to sit and work. The building is also only a five minute walk from the Kittredge UPS building, the Kittredge market (with snacks and energy drinks and school supplies and stuff), and C4C, which is the dining hall pretty much everyone goes to.
* Each wing of the dorm only has like 20-30 people, so it's super quiet all the time. You can go play games in a common area if you're into noise, though.
* Laundry in Arnett is free!
Cons:
* Arnett, like everything on Kittredge Loop, is a bit far away from main campus. It's not impossibly far, the farthest I ever have to walk to get to class is 20 minutes, but if you have any buildings in Muenzinger or in the Bruce Curtis building, yikes. I feel bad for you.
* The air conditioning, for the most part, is pretty good. However, some rooms nearby complain of it not working, never cooling very well, or shutting off in the night so they wake up sweaty. I don't have this problem in my room, but some people do, I guess. Luckily, after the first month of school it gets cold fast, so just open your windows at night and you'll be fine.
* The dorms are co-ed, but disclaimer: it doesn't really matter. Your roommate will be the same gender as you and so will most of your floor. The bathrooms are gendered too, so you'll only see people of your gender when you get out of the shower. It's not that bad.
* The staff are so dedicated to their jobs and so good at cleaning and I don't want to say a bad word about them EVER, but... occasionally, you'll be woken up early in the morning to the sound of someone vacuuming and hitting the walls/doors with the vacuum. Or, around 10 am, the bathrooms will be shut down for cleaning and you'll have to wait an hour to shower. Minor inconveniences like that
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