Wedding DJ, videographer, and UH student Sammy Butts loves his dorm room at Moody Towers:
3 years down, still a few to go… reserved the room again for next year. Just love the view of Downtown/Campus/Med. Center.
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Dorm towers can be nice experience. I lived in a dorm tower during my first 2-years of college. Of course it was a small college in north Louisiana, but the view of the countryside was awesome.
I lived in Moody Towers for a regrettable two months (my first two months at UH) before moving to an off-campus apartment. My neighbor’s on either side had a deep love of big bass stereos that had me running for Meyerland.
I can’t say that I blame this guy – if I had a corner room, I’d be a little psycho about getting to keep it too.
Heh….I’m jealous, and I’m not even an UH college student. :-)
And I thought I was privileged to have a private study carrel at the University library! Yes, I’m jealous.
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I’m just glad my daughter didn’t meet up with him and wed and hyphenate her name with his: Sitton-Butt?!
I also had a corner room in the towers my first year at UH. Mine however was on the second floor and had a view of Wheeler, not really worth making a video about. Although I did enjoy never having to wait for the elevator.
Nice place! Last year I was fortunate enough to have a top-floor tower suite at Baker College (Rice University) with a panoramic view of the Med Center. It was quite a trek up there, with no elevator in the building, but it was definitely worth it.
I absolutely LOVED my year and a half in South Moody Tower – which was then and is probably still now considered the “hood” tower. 11th floor baby baby! I transfered my junior year to UH from a tiny private college in North Texas that was 97% caucasion, and by my second semester in Moody Tower had the best group of friends of every race, color, and creed imagineable in South Tower. and I didn’t even have the awesome view that this guy has.
Grant Warnecke, were you in that wonderful 6th entrance tower top floor suite, the one off the commons? That is one of *the* special living spaces in Houston.
Actually, my room was one of the 5th-floor 1st Entrance quads. It was an incredible place: high ceilings, hardwood floors, big windows with built-in windowseats, and awesome views. It felt more like an urban loft than a dorm room.
The top-floor tower suite off the Commons is indeed a special place to live. Quite a few shenanigans have gone down on that balcony during my time at Rice…
Miz Brooke Smith, would you be a former Bakerite?
Yes, Grant, I lived in one of those suites, maybe #512 as dim memory serves — the one overlooking Sewall Hall. They were carpeted back then, and had the fire escapes right outside the bed alcoves. Felt like an eagle’s-nest refuge from earthbound cares. Down one floor to the bathrooms, right?
“Nice place! Last year I was fortunate enough to have a top-floor tower suite at Baker College (Rice University) with a panoramic view of the Med Center. It was quite a trek up there, with no elevator in the building, but it was definitely worth it.”
Sounds a hell of a lot better than my ground floor room at Weiss, with a spectacular view of the ass-end of Hanszen…
I was lucky to live in Moody Towers from 1980-1983. I had corner rooms on the 7th, 8th and 9th floors (709, etc). I have been curious what the rooms look like today. The south tower was all guys and the north all girls. The friends i made during those 3 years are still with me today. Each floor painted the mural at the elevator a different theme. I spent most of my time on 11 which was then the Playboy Floor. The party to end all parties occurred there in 1983. Memories.