<p>FACs: They are the students that help us move in to our dorms.</p>
<p>RAs: The residential advisors live in the dorms with us and serve in a advisory capacity I assume</p>
<p>oh thanks for the clarification, I was always wondering what FACs were</p>
<p>Aycock 302, right next to old Washington Duke on his easy chair</p>
<p>can anyone tell me about blackwell? how small are the rooms... I'm kinda nervous</p>
<p>o yea blackwell 131 for me</p>
<p>I stayed with a friend in blackwell, and the rooms are pretty small. The one I stayed in was smaller as in more narrow. When you walked in, there were 2 kind of nooks for closets, no doors, then there was the actual room. Lofting seems to be necessary to have any space to just kind of hang out.</p>
<p>I wouldn't worry about it. I always hear people describing Blackwell and Randolph as "sterile" but I liked it. The rooms were definitely liveable sizewise, and nice looking. To me, the AC made it worth it too...lol.</p>
<p>do the non-AC residence halls typically have larger rooms?</p>
<p>Yes non-AC roooms are typically larger</p>
<p>Just a general guide from my experience in terms of size for a double:
<170 sq ft: very small
170-200: small-medium size
After that there all decent sized and once u get above 240 they're very large (but there arent many of those).</p>
<p>yeah.
and another thing about dorm sizes is that living in a dorm that's not bwell or randolph (i'm not sure about bell tower, but then again no one does, and there's lots of rumors about it) is that room size varies-- especially on floor. i was in pegram on the 3rd floor and on paper, my room was 205 sq feet. but b/c i was on the third floor (and generally, 3rd floor rooms in wilson, alspaugh, brown, bassett, and giles will be like this) we had slanted ceilings and those windows that stuck out. actually, we had random protruding walls and weird nooks and cranny so my room definitely did not feel like 205 once you were in there with all of our stuff.</p>
<p>anyone wanna comment/know anything about Bassett? cuz thats my home away from home so to speak for next yr.?</p>
<p>it seems like im the only CC'er in there</p>
<p>Bassetts a good dorm to get. The basketball players typically stay there which is kinda cool. Its close to the Marketplace which is clutch but the walk is deceivingly long to the bus stop (I know, I was in Pegram, same distance there).</p>
<p>yeah I saw from the map, Bassett is at the far end of the East quad.</p>
<p>Thats cool about the BB players! :)</p>
<p>how much does it suck to be on the first floor in Randolph?</p>
<p>how do we find out how many square feet our dorm rooms are? I'm in blackwell</p>
<p>they tell u in the packet they send u that has ur duke card and all that stuff. At least thats what they did last year.</p>
<p>Pegram 234. Yay, a nice number....</p>
<p>I was Pegram 229 last year. P2 is always an awesome floor. My friend had 234, its an awesome room...big corner room.</p>
<p>p2 was craziest in the beginning of the year!! </p>
<p>pegram is just the greatest dorm. i miss it. is 234 a double or a single? because if it's either of those rooms, they're giant, awesome, fun rooms.</p>
<p>My roommate and I are thinking about lofting our beds to make a sort of "living room" area... putting a tv under one bed and a futon or something under the other. Is anyone else lofting (and have you found any lofts cheaper than the ones at loftsatduke.com)? Does our idea regarding what to do with the extra space make sense?</p>