<p>Thanks Malanai!</p>
<p>Ridgecrest West is a great dorm (I’m there, lol). If you are on the 2nd or 3rd floors, you get a kitchen, laundry room, and either a ping pong table (3rd floor) or billiards table (2nd floor). I’m not too familiar with the 1st or 4th floors as I should be, but they have their own amenities. The 2nd floor laundry tends to be used less.</p>
<p>I’m excited to see all the new students on campus next fall. Maybe we’ll start a thread about who will be attending UA sometime around May 1st.</p>
<p>Thanks SEA_Tide! My D is pretty excited to know she’ll have a home in Ridgecrest West next year…that was the first dorm we saw when we made our trip back in January of junior year.</p>
<p>I’m thinking we may have to make a visit to the dorm (again) when we visit this Saturday for Panhellenic Preview Day…</p>
<p>My son snagged a room in Ridgecrest West as well. It was a little like watching the Black Friday shopping frenzy as rooms were swallowed up, then reappeared after (presumably) shoppers Facebooked the occupants and said (again, presumably), “Not a good fit,” then disappeared again.</p>
<p>For those of you concerned about vacancies, it looked like lots of space was still available in Riverside when my son finally logged off after switching rooms more times than I can recall, lol.</p>
<p>Malanai, how did that work, plugging yourself in and finding you wouldn’t fit, then picking another spot? How were you able to find out about who you were going to be in with so quickly, and have time to decide against and pick another room?</p>
<p>It was all pretty silly, to be honest with you. My son (a speed demon on the computer) picked a room, saw the names of who was in the room, then checked to see if he could find any of them on Facebook (it was amazing how many he actually found on Facebook), read their Facebook profiles as fast as he could, and then made snap judgments about compatibility. In the end, he was still uncertain if he had chosen wisely, but then again that is to be expected given the relative superficiality of his process.</p>
<p>He’s written to his new potential roommates and will select another room (and, perhaps, seek other roommates in a more measured way) if he gets bad vibes in the responses he receives. As I mentioned in previous posts, he hasn’t committed to UA just yet and was reluctant to post his profile on roommate finder applications prior to yesterday. In retrospect, he’s rethinking the wisdom of that choice but, to his credit, he is committed to making the best of whatever roommate situation he walks into should he attend UA. It’s all part of the “hidden curriculum” that makes up a large portion of the college experience, in my view.</p>
<p>Thanks for asking, Montegut.</p>
<p>My son (a speed demon on the computer) picked a room, saw the names of who was in the room, then checked to see if he could find any of them on Facebook (it was amazing how many he actually found on Facebook), read their Facebook profiles as fast as he could, and then made snap judgments about compatibility.</p>
<p>How great!!! You could really do this quickly by having a couple of laptops going at the same time. LOL</p>
<p>Yeah, I think there’s a cottage industry in there just waiting to be founded :)</p>
<p>Wow!</p>
<p>The most advanced we got was using cut and paste to put my son’s buddy’s proxy code in to make sure we didn’t make a typo when entering it.</p>