<p>Hello current and former Princetonians! I'm filling out my housing app as we speak and I wanted to ask a couple questions.</p>
<p>-Do you recommend substance-free housing?</p>
<p>-How many roommates do you recommend I ask for?</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>It all depends on your personal taste and choices. For our S we asked for substance free housing because he has asthma and we did not want a smoker in his room. We asked for a double because he is on a shy side and we didn't know if can manage realtionship with 3 or 4 strangers. One is easier to get along than 3 or 4. This year they were trying to get a quad, but it did not work out.</p>
<p>If you're even slightly considering substance-free housing, I would definitely recommend it. I was in that same position, thinking that I didn't want to be around smoke or excessive drunkenness, but I also didn't want to exclude myself from meeting other segments of the student body. But sub-free is definitely the way to go, in my opinion--you're still free to go out and drink (if you want to), you just can't come back and make a disturbance. Plus, sub-free often gets some of the nicest rooms in the residential colleges. Also, the stereotype about sub-free being excessively nerdy and anti-social where people just study all the time definitely is not true--people definitely know how to have fun, but it's just sooo much nicer coming back from a long night of studying knowing that you'll have a quiet, clean place to sleep with no raging parties next door keeping you up when you want to sleep. To me, sub-free is the best of both worlds.. also, I know quite a few freshman this year who didn't pick sub-free because they thought it would be too limiting, even if they weren't heavy drinkers themselves, and they got stuck with roommates who come back extremely drunk several nights a week--definitely not a fun scenario.</p>
<p>there is no smoking in any princeton dorm anymore, so if youre worried about that, you don't have to be. There are also fewer smokers at princeton (it seems) than at many of the other schools that ive been to.</p>
<p>If we request sub-free, are we guaranteed to get sub-free? I ranked it as first, over two room criteria...</p>
<p>i ranked sub-free and also said that i have never drank or smoked and i really would like substance free</p>
<p>Are there sub-free quads at Pton? I was wondering if maybe, because there are fewer sub-free rooms, they only have certain kinds of rooms..</p>
<p>Question about the "Do you prefer to sleep before midnight" preference. I'm jumbled between the same roommate-who's-out-late-partying vs. roommate-who-doesnt-like-to-go-out set of extremes...and then there's the uncontrollable issue of studying late. Even if you wanted to sleep before midnight, I would assume it's rather difficult. What are you all putting down?</p>
<p>I put no preference, then noted in the additional comments section that on most nights, I'd like to be able to sleep by 2:30 or so.</p>
<p>I'm having a hard time answering sleep-before-midnight as well. I've stayed overnight twice. I noticed that Thursday and Saturday are BIG party nights and that the parties really don't even start until midnight. I'm afraid that if I put down sleep before midnight I will get someone who never wants to hit the 'street and will have a hard time with it if I go out. On the other hand I also don't want to be paired with someone who is always out until 3 am, that would be hard for me to live with.</p>
<p>Sleep Preference is meaningless. But, if you want to avoid conflict try to adjust to your room mates sleep cycle. My S and his room mate get along so well is that they both lied on their application. They sleep late, and take naps. They both evaluate 'worth' of any activity in terms of sleep, i.e. is it worth losing the nap.</p>
<p>so what exactly do they do to match the ppl in the rooms??</p>
<p>is Friday a big party night... why Thursday and Saturday?</p>
<p>I have no idea why, Amnesia, but on both my visits the eating clubs were having parties on Thursday and Saurday but not on Friday. Maybe a current student can clue us in on why. I was surprised, too. I thought for sure it would be Friday and Saturday nights.</p>
<p>They're just the typical days eating clubs host their biggest parties. A significant portion of the student body doesn't have class on Friday, so it's a kickoff to the weekend.</p>
<p>My hostess told me that Fridays are the days that the althetes have games and when they come back, they're tired, etc. So they party before (Thurs) and after (Sat) the games.</p>
<p>I heard that they have no classes on friday so they party on thursday night! and friday is when they recover from all the drinking from the previous night. they pick it back up on saturday and then sunday is for studying i guess.</p>
<p>I'm an '09er and the real reason not much happens on Friday nights is that the majority of sports teams have fairly early-morning Saturday practices, and you can imagine the consequences of combining varsity practices with a bad hangover...</p>