<p>Collegefreedom, I know a little about Gillett. It’s being renovated this year and should be lovely. The dining hall serves vegetarian/vegan food, but if that’s not your cup of tea, Lamont is right behind you, Chase-Duckett is next door, and Cutter-Ziskind is just across a small side street. If you’re looking to get off campus, Gillett is right across Elm Street from the PVTA stop. It’s also convenient to get to the campus center, JMG, and Serio’s Pharmacy over off of Bedford Terrace.</p>
<p>Tree fingers = You may be in temporary housing - My D house has had people in the study rooms for a while until they could find permanent housing for them but they were only there for the beginning of the year. They were all eventually housed in her house.</p>
<p>Well, Since many are sharing, my daughter is in Tyler. My daughter said “I got Tyler.” My son’s reaction: “You’re rooming with a dude?!”</p>
<p>My daughter is on the 4th floor of Jordan. Are those “A” spaces noted on the floor plan the closets? And is that really a kitchen on the 4th floor?</p>
<p>Tree Fingers: I know that this year’s freshman class is about 70 students above what the school was expecting so there will be a lot of students housed in temporary housing. My D has been assigned to a triple in a room that normally serves as a 1st floor study. We’re planning to call today to see whether that assignment is temporary but I’m betting it is. My only question is: How temporary is temporary? Seems like there’s some potential for it to be kind of disruptive. We’ll have to see.</p>
<p>Thanks for your help, everyone. When you get moved out of temporary housing, do you usually remain in the same house?</p>
<p>Not necessarily. They will offer you rooms as they open up, depending on where you are on the list. You can accept what they offer or wait till there is an opening in the house you want. But either way it could be a wait. I have friends whose D was stuck in temp housing for a whole semester. It all depends on attrition: whether others either decide not to attend or just leave. I think they call it a "melt’’ rate.</p>
<p>Upstatemom, did you get my reply PM? I was having technical difficulties…</p>
<p>lili-- I did get your message, but I accidentally erased the first one you sent yesterday. Can you resend it? Thanks!</p>
<p>Treefingers: sounds like you’re in what usually is the TV room in Washburn - your floormates will be the HR and one of our HONS also lives on that floor. We usually socialize a lot on the first floor though, there is almost always someone in the piano/pool rooms, so no worries about being lonely! Can’t wait to meet you :)</p>
<p>I’m in King House!</p>
<p>That sounds a lot better than what I was expecting, ppa! I was already beginning to imagine myself and my roommate being isolated from everyone else in our house.</p>
<p>I got placed in 44 green street… I cant find out anything about this house. Does anyone know anything about it? Thanks!</p>
<p>Are you an Ada Comstock Scholar? I believe that housing is for Adas if I’m not mistaken.</p>
<p>No im a transfer student, but I know from research it housed Ada’s in the past.</p>
<p>44 green street was used as quarantine housing during the swine flu outbreak two years ago. I guess they must be using it as overflow housing this year.</p>
<p>Phanatic (and anyone else), is the whole scabies outbreak in Gillett true? Should I bring anything to protect my bed? Also, do you anything about the house community or traditions there? I originally wanted to live in Albright because I heard how great the community is there, so now I feel a little bummed I didn’t get placed there. ):</p>
<p>There was a scabies scare last year, but you will have nothing to worry about now. They took care of it quickly and all the scabies are long gone. 
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<p>I’m sorry, I don’t know much about Gillett’s community and traditions. I wish I could help!</p>
<p>Question for people familiar with Cutter–what’s the sense of community like there? I’m actually really psyched because my roommate and I have been talking and she seems amazing and we’re getting along really well, but other people have been upset and talking about trying to change housing as soon as they can. Also, I heard that lots of people leave after the first year. Does anyone know what sort of effect this has on the sense of community?</p>
<p>Like any house, Cutter’s sense of community changes a lot year to year. The two years that I lived there, we were all pretty tight. The fact that it’s mostly singles meant that everyone was really laid back, some people participate a lot, some people don’t. A lot of people do move eventually, just because there are other houses that are just physically nicer than Cutter, but whether people stay for more than one year depends more I think on how many friends they have nearby rather than on the house itself (true for any house). If people feel like they have a good group of friends in a particular house and a good community, they’re more likely to stay, since it’s hard to transplant a large group of people to a different house (though it does happen from time to time). </p>
<p>The most healthy way to look at the entire housing thing, and this goes for everyone in every house, is that you get out of it what you put into it. If you make an effort to participate and encourage your friends to do so as well, you’re going to have a good house community. If you sit back and let other people drive things, you’re going to get out of it what they put into it. So don’t think of the houses as these independent entities, they’re just buildings, made up of individual and ever changing residents. Try to put your best into your house, and you’ll get a lot back.</p>