Trinity College

Students

Residence Halls

Largely a residential college – the school boasts that most students live on campus – Trinity College provides an idyllic backdrop for learning. Residential students live in one of 26 residential halls in one of four campus neighborhoods: Crescent Street, Summit Street, The Long Walk, and Vernon Street.

Residences are as varied as the students themselves and feature single, double, triple, and quad rooms. Students at Anadama, in the Crescent Street neighborhood, enjoy double and triple rooms, all equipped with a kitchen while triples have a bedroom separate from the living area.

Vernon Street’s High Rise offers quad suites in an eight story building. Each suite features four bedrooms, a shared bathroom, and a common living area. The building, unlike some of the residencies, has its own parking lot, and students can use the stairs or an elevator to get to their rooms.

All residences on campus provide students with internet access and television lounges and the traditional comforts of home, including laundry facilities, cable and phone outlets, kitchens, and furniture.

Returning students participate in a housing lottery, which is based on the previous year’s housing and their class status, each year to determine where they will live for the next academic year.

Campus Events and Organizations

Students have plenty of cultural and recreational activities on campus, in addition to having Hartford and the whole of New England in their backyard. The Austin Arts Center, located on campus, features an art gallery and two theaters. Every January, the curtain rises on “January Musicals,” student productions of Broadway’s hottest musicals, debuted over three weekends in a row.

The college is also home to Cinestudio, a popular movie theater both on and off campus that attracts movie buffs. Cinestudio was named to Connecticut Magazine’s The Best of Connecticut list in 2010 for being one of the top ten diversions in the city.

Trinity College celebrates its diverse student population with its 12 community and cultural houses, among them the Asian-American Student Association, the Queer Resource Center, and the Interfaith House, which students are encouraged to visit and experience. The Treehouse, for example, brings environmentally-conscious students together to work toward environmental responsibility and sustainability.

Students can also join one of the many student-led and run organizations, although unlike many universities, there isn’t a strong presence of fraternities and sororities. In fact, Alpha Chi Row (Crow) is currently the lone fraternity at Trinity College. Still, students have plenty of opportunity for meeting new people and getting involved in the campus community.

Trinity College Media

Students are kept up-to-date with the latest campus news through several student-run media outlets, including The Trinity Tripod, the student newspaper which first went to press in 1904. WRTC-FM radio is the campus radio station – officially Hartford’s first “non-commercial” station – that can be heard throughout the city while TrinTV, once the campus’ thriving television station, today struggles to rebuild itself after its founders have graduated and moved on.

Trinity College encourages students to participate in student media, and the college also features dozens of other eclectic organizations ranging from political groups such as Feminists United and The Student Government Association (SGA) to cultural groups including Activists for Southeast Asia and the Caribbean Students’ Association (CSA).