<p>Hey guys.. I just thought I'd start a thread for us future Forbesians since we'll all be living together :) I'll start off with a question: does anyone know anything about the 'addition'? You can't really see anything from the online pic, and i've heard differing stories. </p>
<p>Die for the inn!</p>
<p>Heh, Forbes showing its reputedly strong sense of community <em>already.</em> Impressive.</p>
<p>Yay for Forbes!!!! The only college with its own slogan :) I stayed in the addition for pre-frosh weekend and it was really nice. The room I stayed in was really spacious and had its own bathroom. The common room and dining halls were also really nice too!</p>
<p>yay :) glad to hear it. lol i don't even remember if i signed up for sub-free anymore... the housing website says sub-free is the 2nd floor of the main building, though, so i guess not.</p>
<p>Sub Free</p>
<p>Butler College- Lourie Love</p>
<p>Forbes College -2nd floor rooms 201-272 (new wing)</p>
<p>Mathey College- Blair basement and entries 4-9</p>
<p>Rockefeller College- Buyers</p>
<p>Wilson College- Dodge Osborn (2nd floor & room 111) and 1939</p>
<p>Thanks for that - I was wondering if I was sub-free or not (and it appears that I am, fancy that)</p>
<p>207 Forbes College, w00t w00t! Die for the Inn - I like that!</p>
<p>Question: has anyone found pictures online of the inside of any of the Forbes rooms? Also, are there any websites dedicated to Forbes that aren't official - you know, the funny ones etc.</p>
<p>yeah forbes...anyone know how the triples look?</p>
<p>Room 218 is the ****... okay so it looks like almost every other room... but still...</p>
<p>"Forbes College -2nd floor rooms 201-272 (new wing)"</p>
<p>Does this mean i am in the new wing? I looked at my room using the link that somebody provided and it doesn't look like it could be a new construction..?</p>
<p>I'm almost certain 218 is the main building.
<a href="http://fac-gis-02.princeton.edu/Gis1/Dorms/index.html%5B/url%5D">http://fac-gis-02.princeton.edu/Gis1/Dorms/index.html</a></p>
<p>Going by the numbering system and the shape, I would definitely guess that anything above 250 (or 150, for that matter), is new wing.</p>
<p>oh - question:</p>
<p>forbes-ee-ans or four-bee-zee-ans?</p>
<p>w00t forbes-ee-ans! (at least thats how ill be pronouncing it)</p>
<p>and yeah ive already seen my triple in the addition. the triples aren't incredibly spacious, but the other info you can read on teh "triples" thread on the Princeton (not 2009) board.</p>
<p>I'm in the Forbes Addition next year as well. I've been looking all over the internet trying to find some info on it. I keep hearing conflicting things. According to <a href="http://www.**************.com/samplechapters/4.pdf%5B/url%5D">http://www.**************.com/samplechapters/4.pdf</a> the Forbes Annex is among the worst dorms but according to lots of individual sources, Forbes is among the best and the addition is not bad. Still searching.</p>
<p>I figured it out. lol on me.</p>
<p>so the annex IS the same thing as the addition? (i have no clue) i talked to the former owner of my room... she said that the addition's not too bad. first of all, it has air conditioning, according to the housing website. i guess the rooms tend to be pretty spacious, too, and they're organized sort of in a suite-fashion on the sides of the building, and then the main part is a typical hallway of rooms. it's too bad--you can't tell anything from the picture of the addition on pton's website, so i guess nobody will really know anything else unless they visit early. oh, and i heard something about a funky smell. lol</p>
<p>oh i went there again today, to show some of my other friends, and they gave me great ideas. the windows are big enough that you can walk through your windows into the addition quad if you're on the first floor. we'll tie ropes so the other floors can climb down (theres wooden things to tie em to). THEN, the trees are perfect to build treehouses in, so we're gonna do that! it's gonna be the awesomest thing ever, and we're gonna make the most of it. maybe if we're ambitious enough we can even make ropebridges between multiple treehouses. hey, we can do it, we ARE princetonians after all. (and my friends also want me to build my treehouse before orientation so i can stand up there and wear a crown and be king as everybody walks in...lol)</p>
<p>Well I was feeling pretty ambitious today so I went onto Facebook, searched for people in the Forbes Addition, and added some of the screennames to my buddylist. One of them turned out to have some great information:</p>
<p>I'm on the first floor, so I picked someone else who was on the first floor. She said:</p>
<p>*First floor is really convenient, because there's no elevators.
*My dorm is in the lower numbers and is near the computer cluster and the dining hall, apparently. So if you're in the lower A1-- you can look forward to that.
*The rooms are carpeted. Provides warmth.
*The room configuration on the lower numbers (up to A137 I think) is single, double, bathroom. So you get a resonably private bathroom. You have to clean it yourself but it's worth it to be able to walk around in your underwear.
*There is no AC or heat so you'll want fleece blankets during the winter and maybe a couple fans
*Bring a floor length mirror.
*Rent a microfridge from Princeton
*Don't bring a bathroom mat, it will get moldy and disgusting
*Bring lots of lamps
*Cinderblock walls, invest in sticky tack
*Bring drawers for underneath your bed</p>
<p>Hope that was helpful to all you newbies like it was to me.</p>
<p>ive got the same exact type of room</p>
<p>drawers underneath the bed- thats a GREAT idea.</p>
<p>There has to be heat.</p>
<p>There is no way there can be no heat. That would be sick. And not the good kind of sick either. Wow.</p>