<p>It seems they are very reluctant to divulge these!
Can anyone share with me his/her experience in dealing with Uparents.com, the so-called "California Institute of Technology
Residence Hall Linens Program, Specially-sized linens guaranteed to fit and guaranteed til graduation."</p>
<p>Thanks.</p>
<p>My understanding is that as long as you buy "extra long" twin sheets, they'll fit the beds at CalTech. You don't need to buy from that program.</p>
<p>Actually, even normal-sized fitted (or unfitted!) sheets work <em>gasp</em>.</p>
<p>Well-kept secret.</p>
<p>Thanks, Ben! That sure makes shopping easier!</p>
<p>Thank you all for the info.
My mom wants to hand-make the sheets for me. Anyone willing to take the trouble of measuring it for me please?</p>
<p>Sheets? You guys sleep with sheets? It's California! :)</p>
<p>hey, r the mattresses comfy there or do students get padding to put on them or something? ben, do twin fitted sheets fit? i wanna kno the measurements too, so i can make sure evrything fits.</p>
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<p>Well-kept secret.
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<p>O_O!</p>
<p>So why all the claims to the contrary?</p>
<p>Hmm, I only had a short ruler to work with, but I got:</p>
<p>6'5" x 3'2"</p>
<p>Give it plus or minus 10% uncertainty on each value. ;)</p>
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I hope you propagated your error correctly!</p>
<p>silver-yms, thanks for the numbers. I have every faith in them!</p>
<p>Have you ever been to summer camp? That's what the mattresses are like. Personally, I like putting a foam mattress pad on top to make it more comfortable. As Ben said, the normal twin fitted sheets fit. </p>
<p>(By the way, this is a public forum, not an IM chat -- please use correct spelling. It makes it so much harder when messages have to be interpreted rather than read.)</p>
<p>my apologies, alleya. but i have to say in my defense that ppl always use such abbreviations in these forums. so, i thought it was perfectly acceptable to use them in posting. </p>
<p>i would have thought that students, especially Caltech ones who are purported to have such logic-oriented minds, would be able to quickly decipher what was being said.</p>
<p>um alleya u dun no wat u r talkin bout dis be im chat wat is currekt spellin</p>
<p>jus cuz u go to tek u thinkz u is smart but u aint dun messs wid mee</p>
<p>P.S. Alleya come check out the aimchat caltech10 sometime... it's like an IM chat WITH correct spelling :P</p>
<p>thanks a lot, silver!! i can go shopping with ease now :)</p>
<p>GirlCalais, don't worry. I would assume Alleya was simply intending to help you, although I will admit that it sounded a little... not nice? I mean I can't say for sure, but in other posts Alleya seems nice. :) I do agree with Alleya that properly formatted text is much nicer to read, but I'm not the internet police so feel free to do whatever you wish.</p>
<p>My sheets aren't good enough for Caltech? ArghhhhhScrewItI'llFindANOTHERSCHOOL!!!!</p>
<p>Oh, I definitely didn't mean to be rude -- that's just the downfall of online posts, you can't tell someone's tone. I also wasn't trying to insult your intelligence (though apparently, you decided it was necessary to insult mine) -- I just assumed that you didn't realize the audience for your post. </p>
<p>This forum is read by high school students, college students, and parents. I think if you look around this forum, you'll notice very few people use abbreviated spelling, and those that do are easily identifiable as high-school students and not regular posters.</p>
<p>alleya, you didnt mean to be rude but, you just were.
Be reasonable: the number of people doing it or not doing it has no bearing on its rightness or wrongness. I certainly respect your entitlement to express your view. However, please refrain from being authoritative by picking on a pre-frosh. Make an effort to go over your subconscious supremacy; you have an important role to play. </p>
<p>Karen</p>
<p>alleya's original message: "By the way, this is a public forum, not an IM chat -- please use correct spelling. It makes it so much harder when messages have to be interpreted rather than read."</p>
<p>That hardly seems like an unreasonable request, especially considering the subsequent explanation for it. It's ridiculous to assume the worst of someone (or the ambiguous tone of a message)- all the more so when that someone has contributed as much to these forums as alleya.
Perhaps I just can't understand what's so offensive about asking someone to not mutilate the English language in their posts...</p>