<p>Just wondered if any students are on here who were tripled. Have they thinned them out? Is it bearable? Thanks.</p>
<p>I do not have a child at GT, but ran into some friends with a freshman son last night. </p>
<p>About 99% of the students requested housing this year. The girls seem to be alright in housing, but their son is in a double room with three other guys! They said the kids are fine and love the school and are not really concerned about the dorm situation. They are native Georgians and said that of his three roommates only one is from Georgia. Of the other two, one was from New York and one was from California. </p>
<p>They have been very pleased with his experience so far.</p>
<p>The quad rooms are actually two connecting rooms that have four people assigned. Only one room has a door to the hall - you go through one room to get to the other. In many cases, kids assigned to these rooms designate the back room for all four to sleep in, and the front room becomes a study / lounge area. Apparently many people want this arrangement since it gives more flexibility in layout, but I personally wouldn't like it.</p>
<p>2sonmama: How was that room designed to be lived in? Two in the back and a study? Or what? Is it a fire hazard?</p>
<p>The quads I saw are all tucked in corners of the older buildings. Each room has at least one window, so you could escape the back room that way as well as via the door.</p>
<p>When the kids arrive, there are two beds and two desks in each room. If all the residents agree, they may move all the beds to one room and all the desks to the other. If someone doesn't want it that way, then it is just like any other double room, except those in the back room must cut through the front room to get to the hall. My son stayed in one of those for one night during FASET (orientation), so they just left them as they were originally set up.</p>
<p>We have something similar to 2sonmama's layout. All of our beds are in the back room, and the front room is a lounge. It works out fairly well.</p>
<p>Quads are awesome! haha, I got one this year and its pretty nice. We have it so all the desks and Beds are in the back room...and two dressers. So the other room could fit a futon and now its just a hangout room...if anyone wants to study or sleep we go in the backroom and shut the door.</p>
<p>The triples arent that bad...we have one triple on our floor, and the room that they are in is actually bigger than a regular double.</p>
<p>Good scoop everybody! Thanks!</p>
<p>I was just at Connect with Tech but they didn't show us the west side dorms that were tripled. They showed us a "sample" east side dorm and also took us into a west side apartment. There is an extensive set of apartment-dorms that were built for the Olympics and they are very nice - Individual private bedrooms with a common living room with full kitchen facilities. We were told these were for JRs and SRs and only rarely did SOs get a GT apartment. The east side dorms seem dark and run down and not that great, but I came away thinking that a triple in what seemed like the nicer part of campus would actually be acceptable. We were told the east side is more social and fun.</p>
<p>My freshman son who is in a west side double is very glad he is not on the east side, particularly during football season. The east side is right by the stadium and is overrun with tailgaters, noise, trash, and general festivities for every home game. While he goes to all the games, he enjoys being able to escape the circus by retreating to the relative quiet of the west side. Of course, diehard fans might really enjoy being in the middle of it all, but living on the west side gives you the choice to get involved or not. If you are on the east, you are in it whether you want to or not.</p>
<p>East is beast. Everything goes on over here...really, if you wanted to get away from everything just go in your dorm...everything is soundproof. Except you can hear the bands play through the windows. It's fun though...def not as bad as most think</p>