Village at Centennial Square

I lived in the Village A building this past school year, so now that the school year is over, I figured I’d write a review…
Some basic facts:
* There are three portions of the Village: Village A, Village B and Village C. Village C, in particular, is, to my knowledge, where all the international students (among regular, domestic students) are placed.
* Rooms are accessible only to those who are paying residents. Even the elevators require a key to operate. Technically, if you bring in non-​residents, you need to register them at the front desk first.
* There is always at least one person sitting behind the front desk in the Village A main entrance ²⁴⁄₇.
* Depending upon what room situation you are given, a typical room consists of a kitchen, a common area, several bedrooms and two bathrooms. For my situation, I lived with three other roommates. I had my own room, one other guy had his own room and the last two shared a room (accordingly, their room was larger than mine and the other guy’s).
* You are given three keys at the beginning of the school year on move-​in day: one key is for the elevators and other various entrance doors, another key is just for your room and the last key is for your mailbox.
* There is at least one laundry room in the village A building. Not sure about the other buildings. If I remember correctly, prices were $ 1.50/load for the washers and $ 1.00/load for the dryers (or it might have been vice versa).
* Additionally, regarding the laundry, you pay for it using your student ID card/​one card by adding cash to it (which can be done online or at one of the machines around campus — one of them is on the first floor of the library, right outside the printing room)
Some pros:
+ The village is located in, what I think, is the best place to be located on campus. You are walking distance from eateries (Subway, Village Market, Tazeh, etc), the dining center, the fitness center, the basketball courts, the softball field, a parking area and lots of other convenient amenities.
+ The rooms are relatively nice and up-​to-​date.
+ If something goes wrong, maintenance — wise, then the university is obligated to and will take care of most problems.
Some cons:
— Depending upon where they place you, some rooms are not as good as others. At first, my roommates and I were all excited and stoked because we were placed on the ground floor, on a floor where every other room aside from ours was occupied by girls and with our room being located right next to the main entrance door. HOWEVER, we were also placed directly above the fitness center (and don’t get me wrong, I like to lift and work out as much as the next bro), but hearing people slam weights to the ground and make all sorts of grunts during outdoor workouts got old after probably a week.
— Within a month, both sinks in both bathrooms became clogged and the toilet paper holder in one of our bathroom’s completely broke. We contacted maintenance and it took them almost two days to show up. WTF?
— In the Village A laundry room, half of the dryers were out of order for most of the year, and it seemed that they never got fixed. With all due respect to any SFSU housing employees who may be reading this review right now, given how much money we’re shelling out to live here, this is INEXCUSABLE.
— And, during one random week in particular, a server issue caused the card readers in the laundry room to stop working. In retrospect, given some of what I know regarding IT issues, I would have asked to take a look at the server to try and see if I could have helped to solve the problem.
— Whether you like it or not, as a member of on-​campus housing, you have to have a meal plan. The minimum is five meals/​week. I forgot what the max was. And, to be completely honest, the on-​campus housing dining options offer food that is just… not good.
— The cost of living in the village is HIGH.
Overall, the experience was average. Despite the fact that my review has more negatives than positives, I met a lot of great people and most R.A.‘s who my roommates and I interacted with, were chill, good people. So that alone made the experience living in the Village worthwhile. I also liked being so close to all the amenities as described earlier. But there were some definite cons, also described above. They get three stars.
3 stars

I like living here. The rooms are massive and we have tons of storage space for anything we want. The only thing is that the walls and couches are a little dirty, but what do you expect from college housing. The showers get really warm and really fast, and the microwave and washers all work well. Kinda like living here better than I like my own home!

Hooray for spacious dorms and dishwashers! Fire alarms are EXTREMELY loud and unbearable, so you’ll definitely survive if there’s a fire. There are only 4 floors, which is very convenient compared to the other dooms (and buildings in general). Two bathrooms in each dorm, one that is hotel-​style. If you get a choice, live here!
Oh, and you need a key to get into the building. Yay for security!