== [[Category:Student Housing 2.0]][[Image:Eastcollege.jpg||right||thumb||East College ==Dorm]]The second-oldest building on campus, it was constructed in 1798, several years after [[West College]]. They were creative with the building names back when the college was founded, weren't they? East college burned in 1841 and was rebuilt in 1842. The entire interior was gutted and reconstructed during the summer of 1956 using unusual construction methods and utilizing prefabricated steel and concrete slabs and partitions.
Home East College was previously one of the scoundrelsfirst-year dorms in the [[Odd Quad]], along with [[Fayerweather Hall]]. Beware They are now both upperclassmen housing in the [[Currier]] cluster. Both of people who live heretheses dorms feature horizontal entries, unlike the vertical entries in the other freshman housing [[Morgan]], [[Lehman]], [[Sage]], and [[Williams Hall]]. East is located directly across the quad from [[Currier]], and is thus an excellent position for aspiring [[WARPies]] or [[Deviants]]. They have a certain ratUnfortunately or fortunately, depending on the day of the week, it is also located directly across the [[eyeballs]] from [[Goodrich]], which can get rather annoying for first-like qualityyears trying to do work on weekends, but does make stopping for [[coffee]] on the way to class quite convenient. Make sure you check out the [[eyeballs]] at night, when they light up! East is also conveniently close to [[Lassell Gymnasium|the gym]].
They do not use East features relatively large rooms and, in its days as a first-year dorm, had the toiletlargest rooms for [[frosh]]. Since the inception of [[neighborhood]]s and renovations to the [[common room]]s, East College is now an upper-class dorm, expanding the housing options for deviants and their kin. ==East 3==The top floor of the [http://wso.williams.edu/wiki/index. They pee php/East_College East] [[frosh]] dorm in their closetsthe [[Odd Quad]], four of East 3's rooms are probably the most desirable freshman doubles on campus, and one of the [[JA]] rooms (north end) is the largest JA quarters on campus. ===East 308===A large corner room whose four windows face the [[Odd Quad]] and [[Fayerweather]]. Always assigned as double. [http://wso.williams.edu/wiki/index.php/East_College East] 308 holds the odd distinction of having housed two of the four generations of [[contradance]] [[contradance#The Band and Caller|callers]] to pass through Williams. If there's still a dark line about the width of duct tape going across the room, it's from the second generation, Bill Sacks '03. If there's a black ring on top of one of the bookshelves, it's from the iced-tea mix cannister of the third generation caller [[Jonathan Landsman]] '05. == See also: ==* [http://archives.williams.edu/williamshistory/eastcollege.php Williams College Archives history of the old East College]
