Dorm Rooms

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<p>Next year I'm going to be a freshman and I know I can't chose where I live, but I have a lot of questions about the dorm rooms. When I went for a tour, I saw a suite room, and I want to know if that's the size of all the rooms cause it looked too small to fit more than one person... And do they have a lot of triples? What's the probability of being put into a triple freshman year? I know the dorms have computer rooms and browsing rooms, but do they have kitchens? Please, tell me everything and anything I need to know about dorms, I have TONS of questions.</p>

<p>Thanks.</p>

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<p>I'm in my 4th year of Scripps dorms, so ask away!</p>

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<li><p>Freshman do not live in suites. Suite rooms are single rooms (with the very rare exception of a suite that has a double room, and in these cases, the double rooms are much larger).</p></li>
<li><p>Room sizes vary dramatically. You could be in a HUGE room (relative to dorms everywhere) or a TINY room (relative ONLY to other Scripps rooms). By "tiny," note that I once lived in a single that had been converted to a double and it was actually similar in size to a friend's triple at UCLA. </p></li>
<li><p>There are a lot of triples, and the number is increasing due to a housing crunch (which will hopefully be easing in the near future). As a freshman, you'll be put into a double or a triple...I don't know specific probability. They do try to de-triple triples whenever possible (and desired) and they do take roommate surveys (what time do you go to bed, what's your favorite music, do you smoke, etc.) very seriously.</p></li>
<li><p>The dorms have full kitchens (full-sized fridge/freezer, stove, oven, microwave, sink, counterspace, cabinets) on every floor. Some are larger and newer than others, some have and others lack dining areas, but they're all there.</p></li>
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<p>I love Scripps' dorms. Even when you "lose," you win :-)</p>

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<p>Thanks for the info!</p>

<p>I'm also wondering about the bathroom/shower situation. How does that work? Are there bathrooms on every floor? Are there seperate ones for showering?</p>

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<p>The bathroom/shower situation is different for every dorm, and sometimes for every room. No matter what, every floor has a bathroom (usually multiple bathrooms). Each bathroom consists of multiple toilet stalls and multiple shower/bath stalls (not every dorm has a tub, but most of the old ones do). Numbers vary (I believe that the nearest bathrooms to my room have had 4/4, 4/3, and 3/2, respectively, with the first one having a gigantic handicap-equipped shower and the second two having tubs), but there's always plenty of space :-) </p>

<p>In certain rooms, you won't have to use communal bathrooms. Sometimes rooms will have their own bathroom (certain triples, upper classmen quads, very few singles). In other cases, rooms will be kind of "Jack-and-Jill"...two rooms (singles, doubles, or triples) connected by a bathroom...this is relatively common among first-year rooms. Suites have their own in-suite bathrooms. It really all varies. </p>

<p>A vote is usually taken at the very beginning of the year to decide which bathrooms will be single-sex and which will be co-ed. There will definitely be a single-sex bathroom available (usually one single-sex, one co-ed per floor) for anyone who's uncomfortable with other residents' male guests sharing the restroom.</p>

<p>As with any dorm facilities, you learn which showers have the cruddy water pressure, which ones are great, and so forth. In the old dorms, the stalls are all marble, which is amazing. Bathrooms are cleaned every day (trash emptied, toilet paper refilled, picked up, etc.) and majorly cleaned once a week.</p>

<p>This year, I'm in Heaven: my single connects to that of a friend's by way of our own bathroom with tub. It's nice finally not to have to worry about totes, sandals, and robes. I've used the hall bathrooms every year before this one, though, and it's absolutely nothing to worry about, especially considering the number of girls all trying to function in such a small space.</p>