Norris House
Students
42 residents
Rooms
12 single rooms and 15 double rooms
Distinguishing Characteristics
- Full size kitchen for cooking
- Working fireplace
- Central air
- Easy access to Eliott Dining Hall through hallway connecting Norris and Millet
Traditions
- Valentine’s Day performances with Millet House
- Pumpkin carving competition with Millet House judging the winner
- Secret Santa gift exchange among students and dorm faculty
- Dorm caroling
- Dorm dodgeball (2019 champions)
- Annual house trip to Boston Bowl
- Annual house dinner at Cathay Pacific in Quincy
- House t-shirts representing class year
- Seniors given Norris House ties
- Team Clean – Residents are divided into teams, and these teams are assigned specific nights to help clean the common areas
- Big Brother Program – Run by the House Monitor and the New Student Advisor the program matches younger students with older ones to help with the transition into the boarding life.
