Housing

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<p>this is a great thread. bump.</p>

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<p>if freshman year you know someone coming into columbia and want to room with them, can you request them as a roommate? also -- and this is coming from someone who is very shy -- how much would you say john jay or carman bring out one's inner socialite?</p>

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<p>you can put in a request to Housing to have them as a roommate, yes. But I would advise you to not do so - might as well have a second social network to tap into rather than just overlapping. Plus when you live in the same room you might start squabbling over petty stuff and you wouldn't want it to hurt your friendship.</p>

<p>But if you're quite confident that you two are totally compatible to live together, I can see the argument for eliminating the uncertainty of maybe getting a crazy roommate. So it wouldn't be a terrible move.</p>

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<p>Help! I still can't decide if I want a single or double...</p>

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<p>Ehh, don't worry about the housing selection yet.
We have until May, I think - it's at least a few months away...and you might not even get placed in the building of your choice. I really don't feel it's worth the stress - especially if you're unsure. </p>

<p>I'm right there with you - but being unsure about singles or doubles really just means we could find positive and negative attributes about JJ or Carman. No worries. :)</p>

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<p>if i'm not mistaken, you don't have to declare your housing preferences until after Days On Campus, the weekend for admitted students to come and hang out and see what's up. If you can go to that, you can get a chance to see how people are living and what they think of their living situation. That would give you a good perspective.</p>

<p>This thread, I think, also goes pretty well into the debate between single and double, or at least Carman vs JJ. There's no wrong answer.</p>

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<p>How many people typically share a bathroom in JJ?</p>

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<p>the bathrooms in JJ, at least the men's rooms, have 3 urinals, 3 (?) stalls, and a few showers (2-4, i forget how many, haven't used them), per floor. There are corresponding women's rooms. And on a floor there are about 45 people.</p>

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<p>4 showers in JJ</p>

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<p>So that's like 20-25 people who share a bathroom? (Unless the floors either aren't coed or not evenly inhabited by men and women.)</p>

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<p>All JJ floors are coed and any imbalance in the gender distribution is typically negligible. You would think that 20-25 people sharing a bathroom would be a problem but it works out surprisingly well since everyone is on a completely different schedule.</p>

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<p>does carman have carpet flooring</p>

<p>(carpet = highly questionable)</p>

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<p>^no carpetting.</p>

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<p>Is there any benefits from joining the Gateway Residential Initiative?
Does it make much of a difference?</p>

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<p>this is a great thread.</p>

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<p>Iā€™m a current Carman residentā€¦ fire off questions as you wish and Iā€™ll try and answer them</p>

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<p>This is what I put on my housing application:</p>

<p>Preference 1: Carman Double
Preference 2: Furnald Single
Preference 3: Furnald Double
Preference 4: Hartley Single
Preference 5: Hartley Double
Preference 6: John Jay Single
Preference 7: John Jay Double
Preference 8: Wallach Single</p>

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<p>Why Furnald?</p>

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<p>Can a current student comment on the relevance of this thread? Is everything still pretty much accurate?</p>

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<p>obviously most is and some isnā€™t, no-oneā€™s going to sit here are read thru this, just ask specific questions after you read it through.</p>