High Mountain East Dorm Reviews at William Paterson

Walls are pretty thin so expect to hear your neighbors if they are loud and it will get pretty hot in the winter so consider bringing a nice fan. The lounges are decent but you can hear everything from your room.

High Mountain East is a freshman dorm building that houses honor students and student-athletes. The rooms are a great size and I loved that they were suite style so that we did not have a communal bathroom. However, sometimes there are more students than they can accommodate. Because of this, I had to live in a triple instead of a double. I selected my roommates and although we mutually requested one another, they put a third student into our room who had gone random. Living with three girls in one bedroom is too many people for the amount of space if everyone has a lot of belongings, and the staff in charge of housing should place students who chose random selection with other students who chose random matching to avoid overcrowding and ease social interactions.

Could be loud on weekends and sometimes closer to nighttime but overall, for a college dorm it wasn't awful. There are many other dorms at this college that are a bit worse. Also the heating and the air conditioning were very back and forth and usually not in a good way.

High Mountain East is a great building, especially when compared to freshman dorms at other schools. This building is reserved for honors students and athletes, with the occasional exceptions for students who did not participate in these extracurriculars but had roommates that did. It is set up in suite-style living, with 2-3 students per bedroom. Each suite had two bedrooms connected by a bathroom. The bathrooms were great, but it was up to the students who lived in the suite to clean them, unlike communal bathrooms. As per how loud or clean the building is, that simply depends on who your neighbors are, however, there are staff that cleans the common areas and quiet hours set in place overnight.