BYU Student Housing

[BigFatMeanie]

Hey, as mentioned above I was an RA at the MTC so consider the source

At least I wasn't there to meet women, though (for the most part)

Well, in your defense there are tons of cute girls at the MTC if one is prepared to wait out the 18 months.

[BigPiney]

Deseret Towers - W Hall, 2nd floor (one semester pre-mission)

That was me, but 2 semesters.

[Bo Diddley]

Freshman year, my two best friends and I lived at home and car pooled to BYU. My on campus housing experience happened later when I came home from my mission and got married.

[clackamascoug]

My freshman year I was in DT - U Hall 2nd Floor. Aside from the RA, there was only one RM on the floor. He's the one who used to buy us beer.

Non Seq and I live at DT in the fall of 1977 - he was in U-2** - and I was in T-306 - just east of the Morris Center and the middle of the three eastern towers along 9th E. Although we don't remember each other - we both played a lot of basketball there on the north courts. It was a 17 minute walk from my dorm to the library where I used to watch Rockford Files on Thursday night at 8 down in the basement TICCIT room. That was Danny Ainge's first year too.

[Non Sequitur]

Non Seq and I live at DT in the fall of 1977 - he was in U-2** - and I was in T-306 - just east of the Morris Center and the middle of the three eastern towers along 9th E. Although we don't remember each other - we both played a lot of basketball there on the north courts. It was a 17 minute walk from my dorm to the library where I used to watch Rockford Files on Thursday night at 8 down in the basement TICCIT room. That was Danny Ainge's first year too.

I was at the Blue-White scrimmage when the freshman Ainge scored over 40 points. It was a fun time to be BYU sports fan.

[clackamascoug]

I was at the Blue-White scrimmage when the freshman Ainge scored over 40 points. It was a fun time to be BYU sports fan.

I was at that game too - my buddy Jim Bohannon played as a member of the JV team.

[Moliere]

V-Hall fall '97 (I think it was V hall but it could've been W hall, I remember it was the building most to the southwest - closest to the old creamery)
Glenwood spring '99-winter '00 (got married after winter semester, the Glenwood wasn't actually that bad and it was one of the only places you could have the opposite sex under the same roof, which made hanging out a lot easier in winter time)
Basement south of campus spring '00-winter '01 (small, small apartment with the landlord that lived upstairs, he belonged to some MLM and tried to get us to join)
Wymount fall '01-winter '03 (loved Wymount, it was the Celestial Kingdom of BYU, awesome ward and we still go out of our way to visit our old friends from this time in our lives)

[Pelado]

V-Hall fall '97 (I think it was V hall but it could've been W hall, I remember it was the building most to the southwest - closest to the old creamery)
Glenwood spring '99-winter '00 (got married after winter semester, the Glenwood wasn't actually that bad and it was one of the only places you could have the opposite sex under the same roof, which made hanging out a lot easier in winter time)
Basement south of campus spring '00-winter '01 (small, small apartment with the landlord that lived upstairs, he belonged to some MLM and tried to get us to join)
Wymount fall '01-winter '03 (loved Wymount, it was the Celestial Kingdom of BYU, awesome ward and we still go out of our way to visit our old friends from this time in our lives)

If it was the building closest to the old creamery, wouldn't that have been the most to the northwest?

[BigPiney]

If it was the building closest to the old creamery, wouldn't that have been the most to the northwest?

he is geographically challenged.

W hall was the most southwest of the buildings. Closest to the Bell tower and across the street from old heritage.

[Moliere]

If it was the building closest to the old creamery, wouldn't that have been the most to the northwest?

Yes, I meant northwest

[Copelius]

V-Hall fall '97 (I think it was V hall but it could've been W hall, I remember it was the building most to the southwest - closest to the old creamery)
Glenwood spring '99-winter '00 (got married after winter semester, the Glenwood wasn't actually that bad and it was one of the only places you could have the opposite sex under the same roof, which made hanging out a lot easier in winter time)
Basement south of campus spring '00-winter '01 (small, small apartment with the landlord that lived upstairs, he belonged to some MLM and tried to get us to join)
Wymount fall '01-winter '03 (loved Wymount, it was the Celestial Kingdom of BYU, awesome ward and we still go out of our way to visit our old friends from this time in our lives)

Same time I was in Wymount. Got to live in J. Golden Kimbal Hall. Made my transition from the Army easier as I didn't feel bad aobut the occasional cuss word

[Jeff Lebowski]

BYU has purchased Riviera Apartments and will convert it to on-campus housing. Wow.

https://news.byu.edu/announcements/r...campus-housing

[Copelius]

I thought they already had it, but apparently PRI was running it.

[BigFatMeanie]

I thought they already had it, but apparently PRI was running it.

Yeah, as the article stated it's been owned by the church since 2013. It's good that BYU is expanding the apartment-style on-campus housing but to my non-accountant brain the ownership change from PRI to BYU seems like little more than just bookkeeping changes. But maybe there are other implications that I'm not aware of in having BYU own it vs. PRI.

[falafel]

Yeah, as the article stated it's been owned by the church since 2013. It's good that BYU is expanding the apartment-style on-campus housing but to my non-accountant brain the ownership change from PRI to BYU seems like little more than just bookkeeping changes. But maybe there are other implications that I'm not aware of in having BYU own it vs. PRI.

I'm assuming BYU will have much greater control over the asset.