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Actually, it’s more like “Your book a deluxe room in a hotel. When you check in you are told that the hotel is overbooked and there’s another guest who has been assigned to share your room with you. But the hotel is still charging both of you the regular rate as if you each had your own room, in effect double-charging for one room.” Now how do you feel?</p>
<p>The forced triples are LARGE. They didn’t take a regular 10x12 and make it a triple. They took the SPACIOUS doubles that had the capacity to be triples originally but were not because the university didn’t have as many students and modified them. </p>
<p>It’ll all work out. </p>
<p>Also there is a dorm switch list. Call housing and get on it :)</p>
<p>I would not be terribly worried about the living arrangements. Best case scenario: you get two awesome roommates instead of 1 who you’ll be friends with forever. Worst case scenario: increases probability of getting a roommate from hell, in which case you’ll be swapping housing after first quarter.</p>
<p>I’m from Pierce which is about to get torn down and 2 people in a 60sq ft cell wasn’t actually that terrible. My parents freaked out 4 years ago when they the awful living conditions but truth be told it barely impacted my studies and probably enhanced my social life by forcing everyone into the common room due to claustrophobia.</p>
<p>awww pierce :-)</p>
<p>I hope things worked themselves out - OP only has 2 posts, so I assume this has boiled over.</p>
<p>Unalovely’s living arrangements were laughable even by Pierce standards. By senior year Unalovely “graduated” to a cell slightly larger than 8x9… but Unalovely was so tied to the community of the floor (this is a dorm where the floors share a community within the dorm community, not unlike Chicago’s dorm/house divisions) that Unalovely refused trading the floor community for a marginally nicer room.</p>
<p>This is the other way of looking at it… Unalovely and I are in our mid twenties and have spent more time out of college than in college at this point. We still keep in close touch with the people we lived with, and the people who lived with the people we lived with, who are well into their 30s, and we still hold to our wacky traditions and good stories. The housing situation is temporary; the community is a long-term investment.</p>
<p>Yelnats95 Just wondering if you talked to anyone in housing. My student is also assigned to a triple in South. I was THAT parent and called housing to discuss the situation. I feel strongly that those in triples should pay a pro-rated housing fee. I was told that there will not be a reduction in fees as freshmen pay for the experience and not the space. They also said that they made 35 rooms into triples in South and a few rooms in some of the other dorms as well. So, maybe a little over 100 kids. I think they should be able to provide a discount for such a small percentage of students.</p>
<p>I just had a thought. </p>
<p>Regular doubles in south campus are approximately twice the size on doubles in max palevsky. This means that in max palevsky terms, there would be room for four people in a south double. Even though there are three people in the double you will still have more room than those in max palevsky doubles.</p>
<p>Hey… I had a friend in Blackstone, and I spent a summer at the U of C helping renovate it in the 1980s. I thought Blackstone was a great place. Far better than Woodward Court (which was a cinderblock-souless-horror – so badly designed that the vents drew in hot air off of the tarred roof and blew the foul-smelling miasma into the rooms at the end of Spring Quarter); and a lot nicer than dark, dank, depressing B-J.</p>
<p>I moved off campus as soon as I could, and I started enjoying things a lot more. So my advice to people who don’t like the living arrangements in the dorms, is kick up a stink, and find a way to get out of your housing contract after Fall quarter, if you can.</p>
<p>2manyschools, it is compulsory for all first year students to live in college dorms for the first year so getting out of your housing contract is impossible.</p>
<p>(unless, of course, you get kicked out of housing) ;)</p>