<p>Yeah, I meant false alarms. It didn't take my son too long either to figure out that his chances of survival were better staying in his room on those frigid nights.</p>
<p>why is this not in the 2011 forum?</p>
<p>^ No clue..................Who cares anyway?</p>
<p>Advice for living in an upper floor of carman (I was in 1008B):</p>
<p>1) Learn to ignore the fire drill alarms. There will be at least one the night before midterms and another the night before finals. Some fratboy will get drunk and think it's funny or some s**t. Just learn to roll over, put your pillow over your head, lock your door, and ignore it. Maybe get earplugs.</p>
<p>2) During high-traffic times you can wait a while for a pretty damn full elevator. Sometimes it's faster to just take the stairs down.
2B) Also, learn the glories of the freight elevator in the back.</p>
<p>3) This is important: sometime during the start of the year, make friends with the maintenance guy there or the lady who cleans. You may need their help to get the door to the roof open. You could also just open the door during the first fire alarm that goes off, and jam the handle, duct tape the latch, or block open the door subtly. But in all cases, as the 13th floor, you are responsible for maintaining everyone's roof access. Plus it'll help impress girls if you're the gatekeeper to some novelty.</p>
<p>4) Buy a 3.5 cu ft Sanyo refrigerator. They fit very nicely underneath a Carman desk (or in the room), but more importantly they can fit a Brita filter, 2-3 half gallons of milk or OJ or whatever (or two 2-liter bottles of soda), and have a good freezer section.
4B) You'll also want a 5'-by-8' area rug or something similar. These can be had at Bed, Bath & Beyond for like $20-30, or at local stores in morningside heights (there's a place on broadway at like 108th that should do for ya).
4C) You and your roommate should have one of you be responsible for getting the fridge (and own it at the end of the year), and the other of you be responsible for the rug (and then they own it).</p>
<p>5) Go to the floor meeting at the start of the year with your RA. Not because you care what they say, but because you want to know whether they are the anal type or the don't-give-a-s**t type. Plan floor activities accordingly.</p>
<p>6) Nothing beats some hall ball. Keeping a miniature soccer ball or whiffle bat/ball around for goofing around in the hall is kinda clutch.</p>
<p>7) For a few bucks at Radio shack (on 109th & bway), you can get a splitter/interrupt unit for the cable going to the lounge TV, and then you can put a video game system on it. If you get a PS/2 or a Wii or something (and make it known that anyone can just knock on the door to pick up the controllers from you), you'll be popular. But if you leave everything out for public use at ALL times, it may get stolen by another floor. We had a VCR that didn't get stolen though.</p>
<p>8) If you can, discuss wall decorations / general room decor plans with your roommate before arrival. Get some posters, get some christmas lights, get some nails or tape or whatever you'll need to put it up, and use the energy of moving day to just get it done.
8B) Also make a list of appliances you might want to get, besides the fridge/rug deal. An electric teapot, coffee maker, toaster, crock pot, whatever. Keep in mind that basically, you won't be cooking your freshman year unless you're tremendously devoted to it.</p>
<p>9) Know how to use CULPA.info. Also, figure out who on your floor is in your classes so you can study together.
9B) Know to use Dogears to get reuseable textbooks at a discount. The best deals are available to the people who get on there the earliest.</p>
<p>10) And most of all, the best Carman floors are the ones where people's doors are propped open when those people are home. The open suite door is an invitation to come in and hang out, for your floormates anyway. It can make you the go-to place to hang out, if you and your roommate are cool enough. </p>
<p>That's all I can think of off the top of my head.</p>
<p><em>bows</em> We're not worthy.</p>
<p>overall good advice by denz....before i comment i have to put a disclaimer that i didnt live in carman i lived in JJ</p>
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<p>its also a good place to check out ur floormates and get first impressions of them and vice versa</p>
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<p>....this is a very common way to trip the fire alarm...ball hits fire alarm box...fire alarm goes off...happened in JJ alot....carman has wider hallways though</p>
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<p>dogears no longer exists as of this past year...i just went to the website though (dogears.net) and they said its coming back soon <em>shrug</em></p>
<p>....now one from me:</p>
<p>if your roommate comes home drunk and is throwing up it doesnt automatically mean that you should call cava. calling cava is like calling 911 if its a situation where you wouldnt normally call 911 then its probably a situation where cava is not needed. this should in no way discourage you from calling cava....cava is there to serve the community and it is always better to err on the side of caution. I have however seen kids in carman call cava on their drunk but not dangerously drunk roommate because they just dont want to deal with him/her. An example of a very good time to call cava for a drunk roommate/suitemate is if for instance you come back and find them sprawled on the floor unconcious or anytime a drunk person is unconcious, difficult to arouse, or has fallen. Main point is though...use your best judgement in such situations because when cava arrives your roommate/suitemate/floormate will be hauled off to the hospital and that def isnt fun. A little known fact about getting cava'd though: cava is free and the first time you get cava'd you can give your ER bill to health services and they'll pay it for you...its a very good way to keep your parents from knowing that you got hospitalized for being drunk (since if you use their insurance they will see it on their insurance statement).</p>
<p>Alrighty karot, good news already. And denzera/shraf, we are forever in your debt.</p>
<p>you're supposedly not allowed to use tape to put things on your wall, does anyone actually care if you do?</p>
<p>the only time they ever care about tape is at the end of the year. if you leave tape or tape marks, you can get fined for them having to repaint the walls.</p>
<p>that being said, masking tape comes off much easier than duct tape but still holds better than scotch</p>
<p>i never heard of anyone get fined since it's up to your RA who probably won't be that much of a douche....</p>
<p>freshman yr, a friend of mine put something up with some really strong two sided tape and ended up ripping out part of the JJ wall when taking it off....he just bought some plaster and fixed it up and didnt get fined.</p>
<p>thx denzera. i added a link to ur post to the carman '11 facebook group page</p>
<p>Any advice for a Wallach single?</p>
<p>bring cooking supplies, but keep them in your room.</p>
<p>enjoy the free cable in your suite. Maybe get a DVR box or something.</p>
<p>most of the advice in my previous post still applies.</p>
<p>hmmm 640/1?</p>
<p>the housing plan shows 640A/B WTD 127 sf</p>
<p>what does that suppose to mean?</p>
<p>link here <a href="http://www.columbia.edu/cu/housing/floor-plans/jay/plans/6.pdf%5B/url%5D">http://www.columbia.edu/cu/housing/floor-plans/jay/plans/6.pdf</a></p>
<p>You have a walk through double on John Jay, as do I. In fact, your room is facing center campus. Congratulations, you won the housing lottery. Your roommate and yourself can either share one room and have a chill room, or stay in two separate rooms. When I went to DoC, it was the best room I saw, and you can consider yourself quite lucky to get it.</p>
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<p>not really. unless he and his roomie decide to place both beds in the same room, he will have to deal with the other person walking thru his room to get to theirs. he does have the much better view of the 2 rooms tho, so that's a plus</p>
<p>i'm hungry.</p>
<p>r3volut1on and karot, i'm on carman 13 too. who's the hot girl on our floor? just whisper it, no one will hear.</p>
<p>I'm tired and sweaty. My dad emailed me the roommate info that he got in the mail yesterday. Now I'm hella excited.</p>
<p>As for hot girls, look on the 13th floor thread on the Carman Facebook group. Bow chicka bow wow.</p>
<p>i have a single on the 8th floor of furnald. any advices? :)</p>
<p>do not expect the social scene to come to you....you'll have to make every effort to go find it yourself or else you will end up very lonely</p>