SPAM

SPAM, also known as San Pablo and Main, is home to students from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering, and the School of Sustainability.  While San Pablo houses the students from The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Palo Verde Main is home to students of the engineering variety.  SPAM is located on the North campus, close to the brickyard, as well as the Fulton Center.  For the engineering majors in Palo Verde Main, this is very convenient.  However, the students from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, as well as the School of Sustainability must trek across the bridge in order to reach their classes.  So in terms of how well these dorms are placed, Palo Verde Main is a much better dorm than San Pablo.

ASU Housing

Despite the setback of being far away from classes, San Pablo has very spacious rooms.  Compared to the dorms in Hassayampa, the newest dorm, they are much larger.  Not to mention, two separate desks, as well as two different bedside tables, come along with the room.  The desks are also rather large, so it is quite nice for when a student might bring a television to their room.  Yet with a bigger room, a bigger mess may come along with it, should their be messy inhabitants in the room.  Nothing that a quick suite meeting could have fixed, as Katie Reynolds, of Central Connecticut State University states “just addressing common issues can help put an end to them” (University Chic 46).  So despite the drawbacks of being farther from the center of Arizona State University’s Tempe campus, the comfy room sizes make-up drastic points for how San Pablo is a good living space for first year students.