North Rockefeller Hall Dorm Reviews at Mount Holyoke

North Rockefeller Hall holds most of the POC Living Learning Communities. As a Black student, I appreciated this immensely. It felt warm and comforting to live in a dorm where I could wake up and see other POC like me. The community is what really makes the dorm hall. However, I have noticed during my time at school that the North Rockefeller building is much less maintained than the dorms that house predominantly white students. My QTPOC LLC and I experienced a very difficult year in our space located in the North Rockefeller basement. The living conditions were not livable and we had to actively fight and advocate for ourselves to be moved to another dorm building. Such conditions include pest inefestations and asbestosis. Teachers have noticed their Black and other POC students having a harder time in classes due to lesser living conditions. This is something I want improved in my school and I will continue to advocate for more changes in North Rockefeller and other POC dorm halls.

The building is close to the PVTA bus stops for easy off campus trips. Its location on the green makes eating at the dinning hall a short walk away and and nice walk toward lower lake. The sunrooms are a bonus and a great study spot. Depending on the cleanliness of your fellow peers the bathrooms are usually clean.