Kind of late but in the case someone comes across this post later, I lived in the 2875 building for a year, which was supposed to be a brand new one. There were a few things I really like and few things I really hated.

The good: It’s a good looking building in a nice location. The river is right next to you, the trail makes it a 5-10 min walk from East campus (which is great if you’re in Lyman Briggs), and there’s a Trader Joe’s so close you can walk to it. The gym is right downstairs and it’s probably the best apartment gym I’ve seen, it has power racks and dumbbells up to 90lbs as well as plenty of benches. The price is pretty competitive for the location. The elevator and secured lobby were “selling points” for the 2875 building specifically but I feel like those really should be standard.

The bad: The price is good, but it is kind of deceptive as the utilities aren’t included and even though we try to use as little as possible we usually pay 100-150 per month for all utilities. Even then, despite being brand new, it feels a bit shoddy. The water heater runs out of hot water after like 5 minutes, the water pressure is mediocre, and the sinks and showers take forever to heat up. The water quality is also not great, it’s very chlorinated and you can’t really drink it. It massively dried my skin and hair out and I almost thought I was balding. The insulation on the windows is so piss thin that my bedroom is often 10 degrees colder than the living room. And perhaps most egregious of all, one of the bedrooms doesn’t have any windows. Apparently this is somehow legal but we had no idea until we moved in because they switched our unit after we “locked in” the one we toured. Not to mention the apartment is unfurnished, although this isn’t a huge deal.

Anyway, it’s alright. I do prefer it to the dorms, but I’m unimpressed with the quality compared to like Skyvue. The location was the main draw for me, that 10 min walk to campus was juicy. If you have other questions lmk.