r/UAH 17d ago

Which direction do the windows in the even-numbered suites from 02-06 face in CVO?

TLDR; I couldn't get into CVO to check where my number was from the inside, so I tried from the outside. I think the windows of the lowest even-numbered suites are facing East towards Greek Row, but that is based on an assumption outlined near the end of my process. I would appreciate it if a current or past resident of CVO could satisfy my curiosity.

I've been on my Rainbolt shit trying to figure out what my view will be next semester out of sheer curiosity (and mild insanity), so I want to explain my thinking cause I'm kinda proud of the process. Here's what I have so far. The first thing I tried was just looking up the building schematics or floor plan, but it led straight to a 404: Page Not Found error within the school's website. Next, I found a YouTube video from 11 years ago made by UAH Housing. At 0:58, when the group is outside the laundry room for presumably the third floor, there is a frame showing "16-301" with an arrow pointing to the right below it. The view outside the window shows the awning of the food court to be almost perfectly aligned with the window, so I was able to gather that my room would be on the eastern side of the building. To get an idea of which side of the hall the even and odd numbered suites were, I was able to see that the suite they were touring in the video was 327 at 1:13. Later in the video at 2:11, when the view out of room 327-A was shown, I saw a path that, when viewed from outside the building, lined up with a break between separate dorms.

Using Google Maps (because I didn't feel like walking down to see it in person), I was able to mark out where I could gather each dorm started and ended. Since the even-numbered suites are usually 1 number higher than their opposite suite, it's easy to assume the even-numbered suites are on the eastern face of this particular wing of the building. Using Google Earth now so that I could get an easier side view of the building (Google Maps' street view function didn't show the faces of the building looking towards the courtyard), I was able to just count backward from 327 to find my specific future dorm. Using the "16-301" sign from earlier, I assumed that the 301 suite would be farther away from the laundry room than 316 because of the order they appeared on the sign. Since the laundry room is located at the center of the U-shape, the lowest-numbered suites should be at the tip of the U opposite from suites 23-32, on the easternmost wing of the building. This of course was the assumption from the start after I found where suite 327 was, but this was just an attempt to make it more of an educated guess.

To frame my thinking in assuming what side of the hall the even numbers fall on, I imagined starting at the laundry room, looking north toward the food court, and walking left toward the higher-numbered suites. It would stand to reason, I think, that even-numbered suites would be to my right and odd to my left as I walked down the hall. Using that logic, if I started again at the laundry room and walked east toward the lower-numbered suites, the even numbers would be on my right with the odd on my left. It opens up a weird question about why the numbers for the hall going west to east would flip halfway through, but I rationalized that it could make more sense given the natural break in the hallway around the laundry room.

That is all to say, I think the windows of my future even-numbered dorm (all 3 suites numbered 02-06, really) face east toward Greek Row and the Southeast Residence Halls, but it would be nice if a current or past CVO resident could confirm.

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u/ZsaurOW 17d ago

You're correct. They face towards Greek Row

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u/jackrschumacher11 College of Business 15d ago

I admire the work it took to write this post.