<p>Does anybody know when the housing decisions will be released??</p>
<p>I must have deleted the original email from reslife, but correspondence with my roommates goes back to August 9th, or three weeks before classes began. So, housing decisions will probably arrive in the next few days! [:</p>
<p>Got an email response from res life today. They said that housing assignments will be emailed early next week.</p>
<p>Thanks both of you. Maybe the preliminary email will show up tomorrow…</p>
<p>Nothing yet. Very frustrating.</p>
<p>I dont remember when exactly we got our notice in 2007. I remember it was very late. Part of this is because of the juggling act they have to do, depending on how many people they anticipate will accept offers of admission and how many actually commit and show up, after paying tuition etc.</p>
<p>Its all going to work out. Try to be patient.</p>
<p>My D received an email with her roommates yesterday!! She will be in Queens (which she is excited about), in the St. Johns building. Unfortunately though, she is in a triple. Hopefully it will work out ok. Is there anything in particular that we should bring to make the room as comfortable as possible for 3 girls?</p>
<p>Congrats on Queen’s! Don’t worry too much about tripling. The likelihood of having a great roommate doubles when you double the number of roommates! Also: 2500$ less for housing for the year.</p>
<p>If the top bunk doesn’t have a rail when you move in, make sure to ask for one. Ditto a ladder, but there weren’t enough ladders last year for all the top-bunkers.</p>
<p>Something to discuss with her roommates is the possibility of a shared printer. A cheap B&W laser will print essays more quickly, crisply, and cheaply than will an inkjet, and every other room will have a color printer in case you need to print images. (On that topic, avoid cheap inkjet printers.)</p>
<p>Closetable shelves–and in John’s you will have sizeable closets–are good for shoes and the other bric-a-brac that accumulates.</p>
<p>My daughter received her roommate announcement yesterday. (She’s on the LC campus.) She’ll be in a triple. She’s a bit worried because, according to the facebook community, there is one dresser and one small closet to split between 3 girls. But I think this must be incorrect.</p>
<p>glassharmonica, did you guys ask for a triple? we did and my son was put into a triple–my husband and i are happy because it saves so much money…however the housing booklet mentioned something about de-tripling halfway through the year…I’m hoping there are enough people who want to detriple that they’ll let my son stay in one.</p>
<p>Parent46- my daughter was tripled for the whole year. It never even came up as a choice. They have so many people on the waiting list, when someone in my daughter’s suite moved out, they gave it to someone on the waiting list, rather than moving one of them out of the triple. </p>
<p>glass- in my daughter’s triple, there were three dressers and three desks. Only one closet but it was pretty big. One girl brought a TON of clothes, and most of it was on the floor in front of the closet, so DD kept a lot of her stuff under her bed. (She had the single bed.) You can adjust the height on the bed and she put hers up as high as possible so she could store a lot under there. Once school started, she bought a black top sheet cheap from walmart, and used it like a curtain to cover up what was under her bed.</p>
<p>Anything else you want to know about LC, just ask. I had a million questions last year.</p>
<p>Thanks, Lefty. My daughter did request a triple, to save $$. She is going to Urban Plunge, but so is at least one of her new roomies, so although she hopes to get the single bed, she is not counting on it.</p>
<p>She’s a little worried because she requested a non-smoker, but one of the girls, with whom she’d has some prior FB contact, has told her that she is a smoker trying to quit.</p>
<p>Don’t worry about the bunk beds…I had to share a bunk bed two out of my four years at college. Tiny rooms for the most part, but kids just learn to deal… Worst part was when I fell off the top bunk my first week at school after insisting on getting it! Very embarrassing.</p>
<p>Smoking is NOT allowed in the dorms. New York has very strict anti smoking laws in place. That “roomie trying to quit” would be well advised to do just that: quit. </p>
<p>There are smokers at Fordham, who have to go outside in the cold (and away from the scorn of others) to sneak a smoke. </p>
<p>I wouldnt worry about smoking in the dorms. Its verboten.</p>
<p>Thanks, Sovereign! How fortunate about NYC’s smoking laws. One problem with smokers (speaking as someone with a strong sense of smell) is that they and their possessions smell strongly of smoke. I do hope she quits, for many reasons, including her own health, of course. I would have a hard time sharing a room or even a house with a smoker, even a smoker who smoked only outside.</p>
<p>Some of my daughter’s suitemates were smokers. DD hated it.
One night she called me and she was tired and stressed but had to study. I told her to go outside for a few minutes and get some fresh air. She laughed because there is no fresh air unless she walks away from the building, too many smokers out there. It’s a shame.</p>
<p>Glass, your daughter might want to discuss with the roommates ahead of time, who is getting the single bed. My daughter did that with the roommates, neither of them cared about being in the bunk bed, so they let her have the single and they also decided ahead of time who was on the top and bottom. </p>
<p>We were the first ones there and it was good to know which bed we could start setting up. We were almost done when the next girl arrived which was helpful, not a lot of space.</p>
<p>We screwed up and my son should have taken a triple to save money but he goofed on the form. He tried to call and have it changed but it never was. He is in a double. </p>
<p>Glass…Looks like the kids are both on the same floor. At least that’s what Con reported today. Maybe we will see you on move in day.</p>
<p>kcdunlap-- it will be fun to meet you! I will wear a red carnation so you can recognize me (just kidding!) My daughter is going to Urban Plunge, so she will move in on the 24th. Will your son do Urban Plunge?</p>
<p>Lefty-- good idea, as usual! D3 did that with her freshman year roommate in her tiny tiny dorm room at Juilliard. It turns out that her roommie preferred the top bunk and my daughter preferred the bottom, so all was fine. In D4 (the Fordham daughter)'s case, she has fallen out of top bunks twice in the past (a heavy sleeper who moves around) so she is worried (and so am I) that she not be stuck up there for safety sake. I’ll advise her to contact the roommates (if she hasn’t already.)</p>
<p>I definitely advise that. I remember back in the stone age when I arrived at college. I was in a triple. The girl who arrived first had her bed all set up and clothes put away before I and our third girl got there. No discussion beforehand. She raced in and claimed it, and I thought that was a bit nervy of her.
I ended up on the top bunk but I actually loved it. I felt like I had a bit of privacy. And when people came over to visit, no one ever sat on my bed.</p>
<p>And there is a siderail on the beds at LC. Most nights there were two people sleeping on that top bunk and no one ever fell out. (Yes, a lot went on in that room.)</p>