Oberhear was designed by Barnaby Woods in May 2019.
Six people were formally interviewed about their living spaces and since two of them requested not to have their names listed on the website, I decided to make all of the testimonials and quotes confidential for simplicity's sake.
As mentioned in the disclaimed on the "Dorms" page, this is not scientific and is based purely on interviews from people who lived in the dorms in various different academic years—thus, there is no control for difference based on years. Nonetheless, I interviewed several upperclassmen who gave their experiences in past years and these experiences always matched up with the experiences from this year (2018-2019). I also completed my own individual observation of each dorm by sitting in the lounge of each for at least one hour and in some cases was invited into rooms to observe from there.
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