<p>Unless they changed during a renovation, the desk and dresser in Kissam rooms are not movable; they are attached to the wall.</p>
<p>Towers is awesome. The rooms are not bad at all, and you'll most likely have a nice view of the campus or West End. The closets have doors and the beds are movable and bunkable. The desk is fixed the wall and the bookshelf hangs above it (it's fixed as well). The bathrooms are in the middle of the square so you're never far from it. The only problem with towers is that there are only two elevators. This may not be a problem is you're not the second or third floor, but it certainly is if you are on the 12th floor.</p>
<p>They gutted Kissam last summer, meaning they repainted the walls and took out all the permanent furniture. Rest assured, from a resident of Currey Hall last year, the desk and dresser are moveable, and the bed can be lofted (actually, it probably already will be when you move in, as they were last year).</p>
<p>whats up with dyer/kissam bathrooms and why couldn't they have run out of places to put me MAn =)</p>
<p>Hehe, the bathrooms in Kissam are pretty gross, I'm going to be completely honest. Each floor has a bathroom, which has 3 stalls, 3 sinks, and 3 (very small) showers. I'm not sure about Dyer, but in some dorms the bathrooms have a urinal in the corner and some have a hair washing station in them, leftover from when the halls were all the same sex. For example, I lived in Currey and the bathrooms on every floor (even the female floors) had a urinal in the corner that were, unfortunately, used every now and then by drunk boys. Mims has hairwashing stations, even on the guys floors (or so I hear). The bathrooms in my dorm were really disgusting last year because the housekeeping people hardly cleaned it... the middle shower was clogged for at least 2 months straight, and at one point all 3 showers were clogged. We also ran out of hand soap constantly (and toilet paper once), and even though we left nice notes to maintenance on the bathroom door, the notes would disappear and no hand soap would appear, heh. They cleaned and mopped around the showers twice during the whole year....parent's weekend, and over spring break (not even over the Christmas break). However, I had a friend in Mims who said their bathrooms were always clean and they never had any problems, so I suppose it's a hit or miss problem.</p>
<p>i am really worried about dyer/kissam because i have only heard very negative things</p>
<p>Are all the halls in Kissam -- including Kissam Hall--identical? Is it really about 10 kids per toilet, 10 kids per shower, etc.? And they are all filthy and often not in working order?</p>
<p>The halls are all pretty much identical, except Kissam Hall has a kitchen and laundry room on the first floor. There are about 25 residents per floor (except slightly less on the first floor), so it's a little less than 10 people per toilet/shower. I never had much trouble getting a shower (except when only 1 was not clogged, cause everyone was using it). Like I said, it depends on who's cleaning the bathrooms...I guess we just had a bad apple.</p>
<p>I lived in Reinke last year and the bathrooms weren't too too bad. It definitely isn't the Ritz or anything, but it's livable. We only had 1 shower that reliably got hot water, but once everyone got established with shower times, there would usually only be one person in there at a time. Again, not a great situation, but you learn to adapt.</p>
<p>Going back a few posts to the bed risers, I'd strongly reccomend buying the bedrisers on campus from the fraternity brothers that sell them while you are in the waiting area to go to your dorm. They are "homemade" wooden bedrisers and I have found them to be the best option because you don't have to deal with whether or not your bed posts will fit in the square/round risers. the wooden risers are flat and the width of the bed, and i believe they were something like $10 for a bedriser set... mind you this is going on 3 years ago, so they may have increased their pricing slightly. </p>
<p>even if you don't follow me up on that suggestion, do wait to buy bed risers until you know which ones you need. you'll undoubtedly get to move-in day and realize you also need x,y, and z so chances are you'll be going to a bed bath & beyond/target/etc anyway.</p>
<p>Got a single at Hemingway! Anyone know anything about it?</p>
<p>I can't imagine that Kissam has gotten this bad in the not-that-many years since I was there. Sure, it's not the Loews Vanderbilt, but I didn't find anything uncomfortable about the bathrooms. I must admit, though, that I was on the first floor of Dyer. Because of all the space taken by the lobby and boiler room, there were only ten guys sharing the bathroom. So we had only 3 people shower/toilet/sink and we always had pressurized hot water (nice thing of having the bathroom nearest the boiler).</p>
<p>LostLittleFlute, are that walls of the room still concrete block and painted in beige or blue?</p>
<p>I think the color of the walls depends actually. In Currey last year, my room (which faced Wilson lawn) and the ones on my side of the hall were a cream color, while all the rooms facing into the quad were a grey/blue color.</p>
<p>About the bathrooms, I really think we were just unlucky and had a lazy cleaning lady. We also didn't have an RA on our floor (long story), so there was nobody to complain for us, heh.</p>
<p>It must have been nice to have pressurized hot water...on the 4th floor, we just had to cross our fingers, heh.</p>