<p>I'm a transfer student and I just received my housing. I got SHP 206, which I'm assuming is Shapiro 206. This room is 107 sq ft, and is normally a single. I just received an email from housing giving me my room mate's name. Any thoughts on what to make of all this?</p>
<p>Schapiro 206 is 193 sq ft and is a double. Not really sure which floor plan you are looking at but here is the link: <a href="http://www.columbia.edu/cu/housing/docs/residence-halls/schapiro/index.html%5B/url%5D">http://www.columbia.edu/cu/housing/docs/residence-halls/schapiro/index.html</a></p>
<p>click on Second Floor and take a look. You might have to save the pic on your computer to see it in full size.</p>
<p>it's probably one of Shapiro's walk-through doubles. There are two portions of the room, one part probably being the 107sq that you saw. From what i know, most people share the larger part with their roommates for sleeping and the other area can be used for your desks, tv, etc.</p>
<p>it is not a walk through double</p>
<p>feeling a bit sheepish..the email said 206 but for some reason I was looking at 209 on the map...thanks everyone</p>
<p>Does anyone know about Schapiro 530, its at thye end of the hall and looks pretty big to me, so is it a double cos i havent gotten a roomate assignment yet</p>
<p>Schapiro 530 at 207sq ft is absolutely a double</p>
<p>hehe xtreme, i'm living in one of the quasi walkthroughs on schap 5 next year so see you there!!
also the floor plans are extrmely unclear to see unless you open it up using some other application like paint or something.</p>
<p>Most of the doubles in Schapiro besides the -05 line and 903 are pretty big. Schapiro itself is a great building for a sophomore... air conditioning, a big floor lounge with a kitchen, and absolutely ideal location. You should be happy, Mr. Transfer.</p>
<p>-Steve</p>
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<p>haha, ur just all over the place aren't you?</p>
<p>Don't worry the questions here aren't that hard, a rookie like myself can answer them :-P</p>
<p>I'm in Schapiro 705. Hooray for the 05 line, what an awkward double! But at least Schapiro has air conditioning, carpeting, really nice built in closets and drawers, music practice rooms, and a nice computer lab. I'm very excited for it. We could have done much worse than get put in Schapiro!</p>
<p>Yeah, my girlfriend was a transfer and, hoping for a more social environment, signed up for McBain. She wound up in a puny double on the airshaft (quite possibly some of the worst housing Columbia has to offer). Her life was infinitely better after transferring to Schapiro second semester.</p>
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<p>the closets in schapiro are not built in but are free standing, so it takes out some of your square footage. Other than that though, schap is a nice building reminiscent of John Jay in atmosphere. Also, the sky lounge adds a nice touch but is dwarfed in comparison to the one in Broadway.</p>
<p>It is a 96 sq ft room! Anyone know how to adjust to this living space? Compared to a former bedroom of 135 sq. ft?</p>
<p>when you say double on the airshaft...what do you mean?</p>
<p>I mean it was a double room that faced into the building's airshaft (small courtyard that buildings in New York have to provide light to interior rooms)...in the case of the McBain shaft, the bottom is filled with discarded things kids have thrown from their windows and relatively little light or breeze reaches the bottom. One also must stare at people not very far across the way doing what they will if they've neglected to close their shades. It can get hot, stuffy, smelly, and awkward, and is consequently avoided like the plague.</p>
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<p>my friends who lived in similar rooms usually had their bed lofted and used the space under it for a fridge or for storage.....its true that space does get very tight there....def not a room where you will be moving around and having more than a couple ppl over....but thats why you have the living room area in the suite.</p>
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<p>My mistake, you're right, the closeting is not built in. Yikes, that really cuts down on our square footage.</p>
<p>96 sq feet doesn't sound bad for a single, and if you're a transfer I am so jealous of you. I wanted a single really bad.</p>
<p>Layla, if you find that the living arrangements really are painful, put in for an academic-year transfer. You can usually get placed somewhere else after a month or two - or even at the start of the spring semester.</p>
<p>Or you can convince your roommate to do the same, and end up with a double to yourself =)</p>