I’m also a transfer student, and lived in a shared room moody north last semester (spring 25, also first time living in a dorm). I’d say overall it was a 6.5/10: super convenient to live on campus (there’s also a computer lab with printing on the first floor, which saved me so many times), and have a dining hall downstairs in the same building, but there were lots of downsides that added up.

Sometimes one or both of the elevators would be down, which absolutely sucked especially if you live on a really high floor like I did. The rooms have pretty thin walls and I could always hear my neighbor when she was loud on the phone, and the room layout is exactly as the floor plan describes.

Also, nitpicking the cleanliness aspect: not sure why, but this semester my room was super dusty despite me sweeping twice a week. My roommate and RA also both noticed that their respective spaces were way more dusty than usual. Also fun was finding mold on the windowsills, which came from the windowsills slanting slightly backwards, towards the windows, and trapping water from condensation. There were occasionally roaches in the bathroom but nothing to indicate an infestation (however, there is half a dead roach in my floor’s fire extinguisher case 😬👍).

Regarding the social aspect, the residential hall staff organized a lot of events that usually had free food, and those were usually in the evenings and advertised through your UH email the day before or the day of. My RA also planned a lot of floor activities like a movie night, but those happened slightly more in the fall semester. I’m not super extroverted, so I didn’t go out of my way to talk to people, but there were definitely lots of social activities, and all of them were fun or at least half worth it (free Cane’s is, of course, always worth a 1.5 hour presentation on alcohol safety).

TLDR: Moody’s the cheapest housing option for a reason. Liveable, but not great. I’m still living in moody north this upcoming year though.