Hillegass Parker House
Limited to graduate students and re-entry (age 25 or older) students only. Students must verify their eligibility before they can be assigned.
Hillegass Parker House (HiP) offers a unique graduate and re-entry student living experience, emphasizing community, collaboration, and shared responsibility—infused with enough organized chaos to keep things interesting.
Our residents come from a range of programs, including computer science, city planning, law, physics, philosophy, and others, creating a space rich in interdisciplinary chatter, department-specific tirades, and flavors of academic career crisis. In any case, we are fundamentally about mutual support, even if our listserv is occasionally a bit extra thanks to spectacular reply-all choices.
The strength and benefits of our community largely depend on our willingness to be civically engaged and cooperate to make the household work. As our house list changes, so do the dynamics of the community. Each version of HiP sets certain norms and expectations for itself, and hosts different visions of what the ideal form of the house would be. But every version of HiP values open dialogue, collective decision-making, and a commitment to keeping our community equitable.
Highlights of the house include our wonderful dinners (Sun through Thur), our music room (which actually gets used by several talented members alongside those who are learning), our carriage house (a multipurpose room featuring an impressive gym), and the gorgeous garden that unites all three residential buildings on the HiP lot.
Come by for dinner and see what HiP is all about!
Profile
- 57 residents
- Grad & re-entry students
- All singles:
- 33 standard rooms
- 24 deluxe rooms
- 4 parking spaces
Amenities
- Carriage house
- Guest room
- Large backyard gardens
- Barbecue
- Ping pong table
- Rooms with balconies
- Fireplaces
- Pianos, keyboards, and guitars
- Big screen projector w/cable
- Board game collection
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