<p>@nyu: I sent you a pm.</p>
<p>And I dreamed tonight that I was reassigned to Alumni for some reason (then my second dream involved getting reassigned to a single in Coral, but that’s a different issue altogether). Maybe it’s a sign of things to come, maybe not. Frankly, I wouldn’t mind Alumni, the location is awesome.</p>
<p>@futurenyustudent: I heard Alumni is pretty nice. You get a whole room to yourself, which I really need.</p>
<p>I need this too. Waiting sucks. I haven’t been able to do anything all week since I turned in that bloody room change form. If I have to pay the extra $4.5k a year for Alumni, I’ll pay it if it gets me out of this bloody building. Just hurry up and tell me.</p>
<p>I took a nap after my 6am (ET) post and now I was dreaming that they’re putting me in Carlyle. God, I need to get a life. Plus I’ve been checking my mail every hour on the hour since this morning.</p>
<p>I guess I’m not the only one that got totally ****ed for housing this year.</p>
<p>My D is in Carlyle and thinks it’s fine. Great location.</p>
<p>NotMamaRose: I’m so jealous. Carlyle is awesome. She’ll enjoy it.</p>
<p>I’m either shooting for Carlyle, 2nd street, or Alumni hall. I know the rooms are smaller at 2nd street, but at least the location is better.</p>
<p>if you go for second street, there’s a chance you could be in a room with BUNKED beds. in some of those rooms, there’s absolutely no space to unbunk them and it’s really annoying.</p>
<p>@missamericanpie: Yeah, but I really don’t mind bunked beds. I had bunked beds my first year of college and it really didnt bother me.</p>
<p>Well, nyu, the waiting game begins. Well for you anyway, I should hear back tomorrow or tuesday. I asked for Carlyle, Palladium, and Coral, in that order, knowing the chances are slim, so under “specific preferences” I wrote “anything BUT Laf & Greenwich” just to hedge my bets. I’m hoping the one thing going for me right now is that frat & sorority housing is in Lafayette so they’ll be vacating rooms elsewhere as they move to Laf. At this point, I’ll take anything (including 26th and/or U-Court, there is also 13th st which not many know much about). I just want out. I’m paying the same $13k for a double that someone in a Carlyle double is paying, and I’m getting screwed like this, and that is unforgivable. I don’t take crap like this sitting down. Have I been “spoiled” by living in Carlyle last year? No, I just have STANDARDS.</p>
<p>I was on craigslist a couple hours ago. I was depressed yesterday, now I’m FUMING and SEETHING with anger. I should have gotten an apartment off campus.</p>
<p>However in the meanwhile I’ll have to go swipe away any and all ill feeling towards Lafayette (of which there is a lot) by going shopping. Retail therapy can do amazing things for you.</p>
<p>@futurenyustudent: I agree retail therapy is amazing. Everytime i’m stressed out and I go shopping, i feel so much better. haha</p>
<p>Lol I know. And it keeps me from checking my email every five minutes and purging my inbox of any email not from housing.</p>
<p>As a freshman this year (3N) what would people recommend for next year? Obviously Gramercy is the nicest (or so I’ve heard) but it’s also kind of far – though as a sophomore I’d have a slightly better chance of getting in. I’ve heard good things about Carlyle Court though, and Palladium/U-Hall are all relatively close as well (at least I’m used to the walk from 3N). I haven’t seen the insides of any upperclassmen dorms yet.</p>
<p>I liked Carlyle when I lived there last year. Pretty much all the Union Square dorms are nice. But avoid Lafayette at all costs.</p>
<p>Apparently there’s not a single space anywhere systemwide that isn’t in Laf or Greenwich. Unbelievable. :rolleyes: Screw it, I’m just going to camp out at Bobst. :rolleyes: I’m keeping the request open with the wider “Anything but laf or greenwich” umbrella, but frankly, I’m too depressed to care. I’ll just spend long nights at Bobst. I have more personal space in one of those individual study rooms than in my room.</p>
<p>And now I have to go shopping so I don’t go jump out in front of a bus. Or get bitten by the bed bugs in my closet. No rational person would call that box a room.</p>
<p>@futurenyustudent: You didn’t get the rooms you wanted. I’m sorry.</p>
<p>i don’t understand what’s wrong with Greenwich Hotel. . . yeah it’s a little rundown, but it’s in a nice area and the rooms are larger than your room now.</p>
<p>I thought it was south of Houston. Turns out, it’s not. So there’s nothing wrong with it.</p>
<p>Now this whole thing would be a lot easier if they (Housing) let us room changers see what’s available as far as inventory goes. There’s no point going for Carlyle if it’s full. This way I wouldn’t spend a week chasing after space that doesn’t exist. Even if they let us see the vacancy list, the people who want union square or nothing are still going to say so (or drop out of the process altogether) and the people who’ll switch into anything will tailor their preferences as such. Less time wasted on both ends. </p>
<p>But this would assume that such a bureaucracy thinks rationally.</p>
<p>Well nyu, I hope your room change went more successfully than mine…I may get something, maybe not, who knows, but I REFUSE to subsidize the cost of someone else’s room. I have the crappiest and smallest room on campus in the least desirable building in the entire system (there’s a REASON it fills up last and it’s NOT because people want to live here): yeah, I AM subsidizing someone else’s room.</p>