== [[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.
The secondEast College was previously one of the first-oldest building year dorms in the [[Odd Quad]], along with [[Fayerweather Hall]]. They are now both upperclassmen housing in the [[Currier]] cluster. Both of theses 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]]. Unfortunately or fortunately, depending on campusthe day of the week, it was constructed in 1797is also located directly across the [[eyeballs]] from [[Goodrich]], several which can get rather annoying for first-years after trying to do work on weekends, but does make stopping for [[West Collegecoffee]]on the way to class quite convenient. They were creative with Make sure you check out the building names back [[eyeballs]] at night, when they light up! East is also conveniently close to [[Lassell Gymnasium|the college was founded, weren't they? gym]].
AnywayEast features relatively large rooms and, East College is now one of the two in its days as a first-year dorms in dorm, had the largest rooms for [[Odd Quad]], along with [[Fayerweather Hallfrosh]]. Both Since the inception of theses dorms feature horizontal entires, unlike the vertical entries in [[Morgan]], [[Lehmanneighborhood]], [[Sage]], s and [[Williams Hall]]. East is located directly across renovations to the quad from [[Curriercommon room]]s, and East College is thus now an excellent position for aspiring [[WARPies]] or [[Deviants]]. Unfortunately or fortunately, depending on the day of the weekupper-class dorm, it is also located directly across expanding the "eyeballs" from [[Goodrich]], which can get rather annoying housing options for first-years trying to do work on weekends, but does make stopping for a cuppa on the way to class quite convenientdeviants and their kin.
It also features relatively large ==East 3==The top floor of the [http://wso.williams.edu/wiki/index.php/East_College East] [[frosh]] dorm in the [[Odd Quad]], four of East 3's rooms, single-sex restroomsare probably the most desirable freshman doubles on campus, and one of the only frosh entry easily represented by a local road sign [[JA]] rooms (which college security officials often lecture against stealing at the beginning of north end) is the year)largest JA quarters on campus.
Oh===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, and since I replaced it's from the second generation, Bill Sacks '03. If there's a flagrantly partisan antiblack ring on top of one of the bookshelves, it's from the iced-East entry, I might as well add that East 1 alumni are cooltea mix cannister of the third generation caller [[Jonathan Landsman]] '05. == See also: ==* [http://archives. Yeahwilliams. Wooedu/williamshistory/eastcollege.php Williams College Archives history of the old East College]
