Welcome Freshmen!

Okay. So we still don't really know if housing decisions are official yet. According to the heavily-followed, hyped-up-on-anticipation 2014 Facebook group, incoming freshmen can check CAESAR and see their 2010 addresses - a crafty way of learning housing assignments without waiting for the official housing e-mail. But Housing still hasn't confirmed the CAESAR addresses, so the nail-biting continues until the official e-mails are released.

Still, we don't care. If you're in PARC now, chances are, you're still gonna be in PARC in two days.

Now, some of you freshmen might have included PARC on your coveted dorm lists. If so, woohoo.

If not, don't worry about it. PARC is a pretty awesome place, with great people and an incredible location.Yes, we're the "Public Affairs" Residential College, but we're really not held to the theme. Basically, we just do fun stuff, like capture-the-flag and tug-of-war, that the res halls don't get to do. So we're better.

We're set up suite-style, which means there's a common-area and a bathroom for every 8 people or so. It makes the college dorm-experience considerably less prison-esque, trust me. We're literally right across the street from the Arch, with great access to the Allison Dining Hall, home of the famed welcome-woman Ellery, who, I promise, will make your day, every day. We have newly-installed air-conditioning, which works beautifully, I must say, in the scorching Chicago summer. We're within easy walking-distance of Evanston, for all of those late-night Burger King runs (the 24-hour BK is less than 5 minutes away - unless you aren't sober, which let's face it, you probably won't be if you're going to BK at 1 a.m., in which case, it might take you a bit longer).

All in all, PARC is the shit. But like the good kind of shit.

We're really excited to get to know everybody. Keep checking up on our blog and our Facebook group for more "updates," which are mostly just my opinions of what's worthy of a blog post, which are mostly just embarrassing pictures of PARCers catching Jell-O with gaping mouths.