<p>A bit late, but @bruno14: Haha nope, Feb 7th wasn’t my birthday, so I don’t think I live opposite you :)</p>
<p>COE is not a very useful major. Not only does it not give you enough of any of its aspects to do/know very much, but it has way too many requirements. Just do normal Economics.</p>
<p>So I have a fairly generic question that is probably universal to all colleges, but, alas, I don’t have an older sibling to consult on this one. </p>
<p>What is the laundry system like? This question occurred to me today, because my mother went on “strike” and has refused to do my laundry, cook, etc for me. Still investigating what my role was that lead to this… but I must say, my appreciation of her has increased noticeably since her “strike” began. Laundry is more work than I had imagined. </p>
<p>Is it easy? Expensive? Do dorms have a “group” laundry room? What about ironing…? </p>
<p>Thanks guys, and sorry for the non-Brown specific question!</p>
<p>No problem answering general questions. I’ll answer for Brown, but I would assume that laundry is pretty much the same anywhere.</p>
<p>Laundry’s really easy. Each floor in my dorm (Morris-Champlin) has two washers and two dryers. It costs $1.25 a load in each, so $2.50 for a full wash/dry. You buy your own detergent (and dryer sheets if you’re fancy) and pay either with quarters or with the “vending stripe” on your Brown ID, which you can fill up using cash at a few different places on campus.</p>
<p>I don’t iron things. Not many people do. If I had fancy clothes that needed cleaning, I’d probably send them to a dry cleaning place near campus, but I don’t foresee that happening very often.</p>
<p>Some people’s parents pay for the campus laundry service, but it’s a total waste of money in my opinion. You need to bag up your clothes and bring them to a central location (a few blocks away from my dorm), then pick them up 4-5 days later. And it’s expensive.</p>
<p>Good luck with your mom! It’s important to know how to do this stuff before you get to college…I had to teach a few people how to do laundry. It’s amazing how helpless some 18-year-olds can be.</p>
<p>First, its not cool to get to college with no idea how to do your own laundry. It may not seem like it not, but your mom is doing you a favor. I saw way too many friends ruin expensive clothing because they had never been forced to do it themselves.</p>
<p>Second, there aren’t many things you should need to iron (unless its a button down work shirt for formal occasions). In order to cut back on ironing or dry cleaning, buy some Downy Wrinkle Releaser at a grocery store or some large chain store like Wal Mart or Target. Spray it on your clothes then hang them up. NOTE: DO NOT HANG THEM SO THEY ARE STUFFED IN A CLOSET AGAINST A TON OF OTHER THINGS. I.E. If you have to use muscle to make room for new clothes in the closet, you have too many things hung up. For this to work, the clothing has to be hung without contact to anything else. Its super easy. </p>
<p>One caveat, read the labels of the wrinkle releaser. It can ruin certain fabrics if used too liberally. An old roommate of mine used too much on a silk blouse and it left a large grease-like mark. For everyday stuff or business casual clothing, its fine though!</p>
<p>Good luck!</p>
<p>Chelsea, for freshman year my daughter was on a mixed sex floor, but all roomies were same sex. Bathrooms were single sex common rooms with showers and toilets. For sophmore year , she moved in with 3 guys into a suite with separate bedrooms, a common room and an in-suite BR with 2 toilet stalls and 2 sinks. That was by choice, cause after freshman year you pick your roomates and enter a housing lottery.</p>
<p>Chau14 - my daughter started out doing chem and physics but when she took the very famous introductory class by Phil Kline, she switched to math/cs (the mathematics one, not the applied math one) and did an ScB. You could also do the CS/econ one. She never had any programming at all and it is completely unnecessary–math is the better preperation. At graduation quite a few people in their small speech credited that sequence (CS17/18?) with changing their major.</p>
<p>All the wall street firms used to recruit, especially goldman sachs, but I’m unsure of how that’s going since the downturn. Boston is closer and easy, NYC a bit more of a haul.</p>
<p>I’ve heard a about Brown being a social hub for drugs, like marajuana. How true is this?
And are there only coed dorms with same sex suites?</p>
<p>Not going to lie, you can smell pot in a lot of freshman dorms on weekends. However, having said that, despite knowing a significant number of pot smokers, I’ve never openly encountered people smoking up at any party. It’s more a “behind closed doors” kind of thing. If that’s your scene, you’ll get what you want. If it’s not, avoiding it is really no issue.</p>
<p>The way suites work at Brown, everyone in the suite gets a single, and then you all share a common area and a bathroom. So if you and your friends (of the same sex) were to get a suite together in, say, Grad Centre, that would be a same sex suite within a coed dorm.</p>
<p>@BrownParent: I credit that sequence with changing my mind too :)</p>
<p>cool blueroomjunkie.</p>
<p>peachesncream: pot is readily available at virtually every college campus in the country. To imagine Brown is special in that way is nonsense. Rather a stereotype. You can get into a substance free dorm freshman year and some kids in my daughter’s dorm continued for sophmore year.</p>
<p>Now I’ll try to butt out of the ‘current students’ thread, lol.</p>
<p>blueroom: Don’t some suites have doubles, not singles – or a combination? </p>
<p>All suites are for upperclassmen. Freshmen get doubles – girls with girls, boys with boys (or women with women, men with men, I guess). It is co-ed by room, so two boys can live next door to two girls. All gender-neutral dorms are for upperclassmen – so it’s only upperclassmen who can have co-ed rooms/suites.</p>
<p>@fireandrain: My mistake, I should have said that most suites have singles. There definitely are suites with doubles as well. The housing lottery is coming up, bah!</p>
<p>If anyone on here has any experience, how is the pre-med advising? Is it easy to get an appointment and do the advisors actually give a crap?</p>
<p>Also, how overwhelming are the Bio classes? </p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>I took Neuro 1 last semester, if that counts. It was less work than I thought it would be; I crammed for a few days before each exam (and went to review sessions), and ended up doing pretty well in that class. I have friends in Bio 200 and they say that consistent work pays off more in this class. On the other hand, I know people who’ve done well thanks to (again) consistent preparation, so I guess it depends on a person-to-person basis. Basically, if you have adequate preparation, intro level biology courses are pretty manageable, ie. they aren’t going to pull a Math 35 on your schedule ;)</p>
<p>I’m so glad I don’t have to deal with housing lottery. It seems so stressful.</p>
<p>Well I didn’t take AP Bio and the last bio class I took was almost 4 years ago…</p>
<p>Re: Housing</p>
<p>fireandrain is correct that not all suites are all singles. There are probably a few oddballs out there (i.e. that seven-person suite in Wayland that everyone wants), but most of the time, any suite that has a common area will feature at least one double. The exceptions are New Dorm and Young O. Those have all singles. Grad Center is all singles, and you share a hallway and a bathroom.</p>
<p>Freshmen will occasionally have “suites” (there are some set ups in Andrews, for instance, that put two doubles and a common hallway behind another door).</p>
<p>Also, suite fee.</p>
<p>@jasonleb1 That means you will take Bio 0020 your freshman year. It is a good class with a great professor. Ken Miller is a really clear lecturer (and was on The Colbert Report twice).</p>
<p>Any of you current students deferred, then accepted?
In your time, do you know many deferred students who have been accepted RD round?</p>
<p>I’m not quite a current student, but I was deferred and then accepted in the RD round.</p>
<p>My daughter got a mixed sex suite in Grad Dorm sophmore year. 3 boys, 1 girl, all single rooms I think. They also had no suite fee because it was an ‘unofficial’ common room, there being no outlets. She scoured maps to find it. I think it was on the ground floor or just one up. The people moving out congratulated them on making the discovery. They just ran in extension cords for lamps and electronics.</p>