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| − | Williston is also home to one of the creepiest basements on campus (if you don't count the basement in [[Conger-Neal]] and NEVER go into the basement at [[Hamblin]]), sporting a "study lounge" that is often taken over by gamers, along with soda machines that are never stocked and a snack machine straight from 1978. There are also more [[Laundry|driers than washing machines]], for some reason. (Actually, this makes perfect sense. It takes only 26 minutes to wash a load of laundry but one hour to dry them, which means two people can wash their clothes and both need a drier before even one drier has finished a cycle.) In addition, there is a bathtub in the basement bathroom. Use it at your own risk. | + | Williston is also home to one of the creepiest basements on campus (if you don't count the basement in [[Conger-Neal]] and NEVER go into the basement at [[Hamblin]]), sporting a "study lounge" that is often taken over by gamers, along with soda machines that are never stocked and a snack machine straight from 1978. There are also more [[Laundry|driers than washing machines]], for some reason. (Actually, this makes perfect sense. It takes only 26 minutes to wash a load of laundry but one hour to dry them, which means two people can wash their clothes and both need a drier before even one drier has finished a cycle.) In addition, there is a bathtub in the basement bathroom. Use it at your own risk. The Kitchen is also Notoriously stinky, the sink is almost always full of dirty dishes and, according to firsthand student accounts, there was a pot of some soupy concoction left on the stove for weeks. |
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| + | ==The Great Stink Of 2025== | ||
| + | During the first three weeks of November 2025 there was a horrible smell that fluctuated between minorly stinky and so unbearably putrid that you had to hold your breath as you walked to your room. On unseasonably warm November nights the smell would grow stronger and waft throughout the building to everyone's dismay. It may have set the fire alarm off once or twice, who knows. The Stink™ was eradicated on November 17th, 2025. Nobody knows why it started or how it was fixed, it was theorized to be emitting from overfilled trashcans, dirty basement dishes, or a leaking sewer pipe. | ||
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Latest revision as of 15:32, 2 May 2026
Williston Hall is a 24-hour quiet study dorm made up of suites of 4 residents. It is available through Block Housing as well as General Lottery.
A.K.A "The Quiet Dorm" which some people would think is boring but most of the inhabitants are quite happy about it, thank you very much, mostly because it's not really that quiet. It is, in fact, the creakiest building known to man. Williston is conveniently located between three of Knox's fraternities, which probably seems a tad odd, considering the whole "quiet" thing. The building was named for a donor who applauded Knox's stand "against the evils of slavery" (or so the plaque right inside the door says).
Basement[edit]
Williston is also home to one of the creepiest basements on campus (if you don't count the basement in Conger-Neal and NEVER go into the basement at Hamblin), sporting a "study lounge" that is often taken over by gamers, along with soda machines that are never stocked and a snack machine straight from 1978. There are also more driers than washing machines, for some reason. (Actually, this makes perfect sense. It takes only 26 minutes to wash a load of laundry but one hour to dry them, which means two people can wash their clothes and both need a drier before even one drier has finished a cycle.) In addition, there is a bathtub in the basement bathroom. Use it at your own risk. The Kitchen is also Notoriously stinky, the sink is almost always full of dirty dishes and, according to firsthand student accounts, there was a pot of some soupy concoction left on the stove for weeks.
The Great Stink Of 2025[edit]
During the first three weeks of November 2025 there was a horrible smell that fluctuated between minorly stinky and so unbearably putrid that you had to hold your breath as you walked to your room. On unseasonably warm November nights the smell would grow stronger and waft throughout the building to everyone's dismay. It may have set the fire alarm off once or twice, who knows. The Stink™ was eradicated on November 17th, 2025. Nobody knows why it started or how it was fixed, it was theorized to be emitting from overfilled trashcans, dirty basement dishes, or a leaking sewer pipe.
