The smallest of the trio of housing facilities that make up SHARC, Public Affairs Residential College is located on South Campus. Only loosely affiliated with its name, PARC is mostly characterized by its diverse array of students, suite-style living and small community, housing a little over 100 students. Residents of PARC typically eat meals in the Allison Residential Community dining hall, but its convenient location makes it easy to branch out, whether it’s on Northwestern’s campus or in downtown Evanston.
“My suite is my favorite part of PARC. We’re all from really different places, but we all ended up being really good friends.”
Carson Brown, Medill freshman
“Well, I have ants right now, so I think I’ve eaten a couple of them in the past few nights while sleeping. But other than ants, which I guess is sort of an act of God, I wouldn’t change much.”
Jeremy Hyowon Joo, Weinberg freshman
“There’s munchies every week, there’s a conference room, tv room … the basement’s always really good, if you want to hang out there.”
Marissa Mizroch, Medill freshman
Reporting by Orko Manna, Celena Chong, Danielle Elliott, Kevin Kryah, Rosalie Chan, Ali Pelczar, Burke Evans, Kelly Gonsalves, Scott Brown, Sarah Turbin, Alex Duner, Alice Zhang, Morgan Kinney, Caroline Levy, Jahmeelay Jean-Leger, Jasper Scherer, Kelly Gonsalves, Ashley Wood and Medha Imam
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