<p>Hadn't anticipated the need to purchase special/addit bedding for D (figured the standard linens she used in boarding sch would be sufficient). </p>
<p>Are the extra-long sheets necessary? (Easy enough to pikc up on our next trip to Target - - but the list of essentials just keeps growing.)</p>
<p>There are three houses this year that have twin xl beds. Baldwin and Morris are two of them and the Smith staff member (can't remember his name off the top of my head) answering our housing questions on the Moodle group is trying to find out for us which the third house is. I have a feeling it might be Haven-Wesley because they just got renovated this summer.</p>
<p>cessnovember, it's probably Haven (not the structure identified as Wesley, which was renovated when the campus center was built a few years ago and is not being redone this summer). I'm pretty sure we're getting new beds - but I hope my regular sized sheets still fit, because I don't plan to buy new ones.</p>
<p>Morris has XL beds? LOL! As far as I know, my D never bought new sheets when she moved there. Now I have to wonder what she did . . .</p>
<p>Twin fitted sheet will not fit on XL twin bed unless it is one of the jersey (tee-shirt like) sheets or is designed with very deep pockets. And...even those can be a struggle to get on the bed.</p>
<p>A regular twin Flat sheet (top sheet) can be manged OK.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, it is tough these days to find just the bottom sheet. Most of the sheets that are well priced are sold in sets. In the Parents Cafe there's lots of info. about sheets and other dorm items.</p>
<p>MWFN, I wonder if your D did what my boyfriend does when faced with mysterious sheets, which is to just lay them on the bed and then sleep on them. I once discovered him using a bedskirt in place of a flat sheet.</p>
<p>I just asked her. She said that the jersey sheets stretched nicely and that the others stretched as well but didn't go all the way around the corners. I never would have known about this issue if I hadn't read this thread! (I do remember finding out that her first dorm had regular size beds - and I rejoiced.)</p>
<p>the majority of smith dorms do have regular twin size mattresses, so you don't often need new ones. I guess they finally got tired of complaints about bed length and got xls for the renovated houses.</p>
<p>"I guess they finally got tired of complaints about bed length and got xls for the renovated houses."</p>
<p>Do you mean regular length for the renovated houses? I doubt Morris has been renovated in quite some time.</p>
<p>No, most houses have regular length beds. The XL ones are new (sometimes furniture is replaced, though - this might have been the case with Morris). Maybe it has to do with the new beds, some of which are bunkable? (I know that there are bunkbeds in Baldwin - it apparently caused trouble when it came time to prepare the house for reunion.)</p>
<p>that's interesting, I had no idea we had any bunkable beds on campus, nifty!</p>
<p>I just assumed that if morris had xl beds then they must have received a renovation, but borgin's right, they probably just had a furniture replacement. </p>
<p>I should probably explain to new parents/students that by "complaints about the beds" I didn't mean that Smith beds were especially small. It's just that some taller smithies find them a tad bit short, and in our usual rounds of student belly aching, the beds come up.</p>