Leverett House

As Housing Day approaches, FlyBy will serve as your personal rating agency for all the houses. Not that you have any say (River Gods notwithstanding), but at least you'll know whether your portfolio is getting a downgrade.

Want to know if you should take that Gordon's  shot at Leverett House next Wednesday night? We've got an asset by asset breakdown of the house after the jump.

Rooming: Sneaky good. You’re never going to get shafted in this house. While FlyBy would strongly recommend Dewolfe for your first year, you definitely won’t end up thrown in some 4x4 cage with a floater (like we’ve seen in some houses). And Senior housing leaves you with some fine options: take out an entire ‘U’ in one of the top floors of Leverett towers (best views on campus!), or take your traditional n+1’s in the upper floors of Old Lev.

Dining Hall: Abysmal. Leverett’s dining hall could have just been quietly mediocre, but they insisted on throwing up that mess of a painting that someone, at some point, thought was good “modern art.” And have you seen the windows? Those are definitely jail cell bars on them. And while the food is quite good and the guys at the grill are speedy and friendly, don’t count on brain break—Lev Dhall is notorious for being flooded with hungry physics nerds at night.

House List: Tranquil. Leverett’s house list is about as bland as they come. Threads are almost exclusively event postings, and even when someone posts things worth commenting on, no one responds. Trust FlyBy, though, this is a positive: no house list heroes that post their inane thoughts. And thanks to Gmail, all you have to do is throw up that filter. Set it, and forget it!

House Masters: Endearing? Creepy? While the Georgis are very friendly with the natives, FlyBy’s parents were a little irked by their insistence on introducing themselves as "Chief" and "Coach." Rumor has it that they really get loose at their weekly Sherry hour in the Senior Common Room.

House Culture: Tepid. As the largest house, and one that happens to be divided amongst four non-adjoining buildings (including Dewolfe), it's got to be tough to build a defining house culture. Add to that the fact that many just don’t want to rep shirts that prominently feature these, and it certainly gets tougher. The Stein clubs are, in a word, WEAK. And Lev really lacks those iconic rooms that drive a healthy party scene (those of you who are of party grant age, do you ever remember a Lev party really turning it out?). FlyBy does happen to be the #1 fan of LevSPN though.

The Rating: BBB.* Leverett House will never evoke the kinds of emotions that an Adams, a Mather, or the Quad (didn't say they had to be good emotions) does. When you tell your friends you’re a “Rising Rabbit,” next Wednesday, their facial expression probably won’t budge one bit. But you should really be quite pleased. In fact, if you find out you’re in Lev, breathe a long sigh of relief. There's some really low quality real estate out there, even right next door.

*Ratings run as such: [AAA > AA > A > BBB > junk > subprime]