Dorm Life

Rooms

Female students live in our main building, Brunnsgården. This is a two-story wood building dating back to the early 1900s. The ground level houses the office, library, computer room and dining hall. The girls’ rooms are located on the second level. Two to four students share each room, each of which is equipped with a sink and some with their own toilet. Showers and additional toilet facilities are located at the end of the hall.

Male students are usually housed in another building called Ekhaga. A wood two-story dormitory built in the 1880s, each room in Ekhaga sleeps two to four students. The rooms all have sinks, with showers and toilet facilities down the hall. Ekhaga also houses the Holsby weight room.

All the rooms at Holsby are furnished with bunk beds and drawer or closet space for each student. Laundry facilities are located in the basement of Brunnsgården.

Roommates

Holsby staff members assign roommates taking age and other factors into consideration. Roommates are reassigned at the beginning of each new term in order to foster community. Students are expected to keep their rooms tidy, and are required to be in the dorms by 10:30 p.m. on weekdays, and by midnight on weekends.

Resident Assistants

Resident assistants (or RAs) are former Holsby students who have returned to serve as leaders for the men’s and women’s dormitories. One RA lives with the men and one with the women, providing support, guidance, leadership and friendship to the student body. The RAs are available 24 hours a day in case of emergency.

Serving Together

A part of living together in community at Holsby is serving one another through daily duties. Students are assigned a daily household duty as part of their normal routine, such as washing dishes, cleaning, removing trash or doing laundry.

On Friday mornings, students and staff work together on more thorough cleaning, as well as campus grounds and maintenance projects.