<p>My D was assigned a triple in Beaumont. Does anyone have any info on this dorm? I tried to access the floorplan link but was unable to download it.
Do the rooms have carpet? How do we know if this is a regular triple or a forced triple?
Any tips on dealing with communal bathrooms?</p>
<p><a href="http://reslife.wustl.edu/housing_selection/pdfloors/beaumont.pdf%5B/url%5D">http://reslife.wustl.edu/housing_selection/pdfloors/beaumont.pdf</a>
Try this link...I also believe Beaumont is all sub-free....at least that is what another site said.</p>
<p>no carpet in beau</p>
<p>My S is posted to Danforth. He has one roomate and two other suite mates. Anyone know if that's a reasonable arrangement and/or a good dorm/locations? Thanks.</p>
<p>nmsgklll, I lived in Beaumont freshman year and loved it. It is a sub-free, traditional dorm. It is not as "hotel-like" as other the modern dorms, but we all enjoyed it and wouldn't have changed. There are no carpets, but it wasn't a big deal. The communal bathrooms take some getting used to, but I never had any problems with waiting for a shower. They usually try not to do forced triples. If you give me the room number, I can try to remember if it is a regular triple or a forced triple </p>
<p>There is a good chance I know the resident advisor on your daughters floor because around 10 people from my freshman floor went on to be RA's in Beaumont or it's ResCollege partner Lee. If you have more specific question I can answer them. </p>
<p>ETA: I have lived with 3 friends I met on Beaumont for the last two years, and we are living together next year as well.</p>
<p>jimb7, Danforth is a modern dorm and is very nice. In the modern dorms, two rooms share a bathroom. Those are probably the suitemates that were listed.</p>
<p>Son lived in a modern dorm first 2 years at WU. He was a RA at Beaumont this past year. He said that Beaumont House is great, and he really enjoyed the social atmosphere there. He has elected to be a RA (at Beaumont) again for this year (his senior year). He said that communal bathrooms and sub-free floors has not bothered him.</p>
<p>jimb, S lived in Danforth his freshman year. It is a modern dorm- he was on the 2nd floor- a sub free floor at that time. There are two doubles ( a room with 2 students) connected by a bathroom to another double. It is carpeted. They have a storage area by the door and they have two huge closets in the room. It is quite spacious in my opinion. He had a tv hooked up to cable that the other kids (even in the other suites) used to go over to his room to watch so his roommate ended up getting a sofa for their room. They then had to bunk their beds to have extra space.
By the way, I got to meet Mr. and Mrs.Danforth during move in. They were giving out key chains to the new Danforth residents. This was 3 years ago.</p>
<p>I think I got shafted. I got a traditional triple (my last choice). However, I heard it was quite social, so at least I won't be bored.</p>
<p>Is Danforth the only substance=free dorm? Is it air-conditioned? Has anyone ever successfully complained about their placement and gotten moved?</p>
<p>I meant Beaumont.</p>
<p>Beaumont is awful, very old and smelly. There are communal bathrooms one for boys and one for girls but everybody goes naked in the halls. There is no room for the kids stuff in the triples, so don’t buy anything extra. Triple room kids spend many nights sleeping at the library since they can’t do their homework in their rooms (I saw that while visiting).</p>
<p>Don't worry about what the above poster said, the traditional dorms are not that bad. Some people do work in the library and some do work in their rooms --it depends on where you work better. I never worked in the library while I lived in Beaumont. No one on my floor went around naked...I think people would have complained if they had.</p>
<p>amazon, Beaumont is the only substance free freshman building. There are sub-free floors in other buildings. There is air-conditioning in all off the dorms. Most people end up liking where they live. However, if you have a legitimate reason for wanting to leave, you can potentially get switched. I know 2-3 people who have done this.</p>
<p>Yeah, plenty of people on my floor of modern singles also spent all their time in the library... it's a personal preference, not a forced choice based on one's living situation.</p>
<p>If you live with two roomates, studying in the library is a forced situation, not a choice. If you lived in modern dorms, you don't have that experience.</p>
<p>I called Wash U yesterday and funny enough they said I was the second person this week who asked if people walk around naked in Beaumont. I've been told that no one has ever been seen walking around naked - it's a substance-free dorm, one would think people would be kind of straight-laced. Also they said the triples are really big and I spoke to a woman who had lived in one and she thought there actually was more personal space per person in a triple. Definitely enough room for a frig and microwave. I'll have to see when I get there. Why wouldn't you be able to study in your room if you have a triple?</p>
<p>well, i think the assumption that the addition of an extra roommate makes the noise level and lack of focus both go up exponentially. I'm not sure if that's necessarily true, but either way, if all members of triple rooms are "forced" (oh man!) to study in the library, wouldn't the room be... silent? plus, roommates don't have identical class schedules or social lives, so i feel like the only situation in which all three would definitely be present is bedtime (and even then, it's college, so who even knows). </p>
<p>i don't think people ever walk around naked. i think they probably walk around wearing nothing but a towel, though. not a big deal, because people are mature about it.</p>
<p>How is the bathroom situation? I guess girls suffer more than boys with that.</p>
<p>It worked, surprisingly. Never had any issues there. People tend to have different schedules. I wasn't in Beaumont specifically, but I'm sure it's similar for all the traditional dorms (with shared bathrooms on the hall).</p>
<p>I was very upset about the idea of my daughter doing the whole showering down the hall with boys around thing but she did summer programs at colleges and she said they did it and it was no big deal.</p>
<p>I really don't know why they even need to have co-ed floors but I guess I'm very out of touch.</p>