im assuming the large glass windows part are common rooms? can't be actual dorms.
It's not nearly that bad. The alewife towers are bona fide projects.
Looks better than the hotels down in SBW, but that ain't saying much either.
personally I would have hated to live in a dorm tower, I lived in a 9 story building and I hated that, waiting for evelators and squeezing in them trying to rush to class at the same time as everyone else, and plus you run into people you don't want to see and have no forewarning about... but I guess if you sign up to go to BU or NE, you gotta expect it. IMO dorms aren't condusive to many floors at all.
I would have hated to live in a dorm tower