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<p>Ouch, sad but true…</p>
<p>Let the gparents and little sib stay at the hotel in air conditioning (and with a TV) until the OP’s room is set up. That way, they’ll all have more energy for the campus tour.</p>
<p>I just thought: what if, given the cost of university, they figure you actually get a large room to match? NOT. </p>
<p>I recall some grandparents lacing into a dean that the tripled double for their freshman was worse than third-world conditions, and how do they intend to protect the students from infectious diseases when someone sneezes on him.</p>
<p>That was quite a conversation, raised in an ask-the-dean forum for freshman families. THAT was one embarrassed student. </p>
<p>^^Mine is one of those “it could always be worse” posts.</p>
<p>Just moved DD in. I still can’t decide if the family that brought six people and two small dogs was funnier than the family that brought five cases of water for their student. Apparently there is a major shortage of bottled water on campus. Shoot and I didn’t get the memo!</p>
<p>Actually I can kind-of-sort-of see that (even though I doubt I’d do it myself – here’s a Nalgene and a water fountain, you should be all set). It’s not that there’s a shortage of bottled water, but there’s a huge difference in cost between buying it on sale or at Costco versus buying in a place that jacks up the price because you’re a captive audience. My D loves caffeine-free Diet Pepsi, which is hard to find, and I can see bringing a case or two.</p>
<p>We always move S in with sodas and snacks. Costco loves us.</p>
<p>One roommate of D’s had access to a car and a Costco card during the semester. She bought Costco TP–there was so much that they could make a TP Christmas tree during the season.</p>
<p>—If your grandparents live abroad, be prepared for the fact that a modern, American, coed dorm may be very different from what they were imagining. Or better yet, prepare them beforehand.
—Bring along a camera and take a look at your college’s website to pick out a few “locations” in advance. I’ll bet that you and your grandparents would really treasure photos of you on the library steps/by a lake/statue/ ivy covered wall/whatever your campus is known for.</p>
<p>We didn’t schlep water bottles. BUT both kids DID have a Brita water pitcher which they both used…and their Nalgene bottles. We have very clean well water here at home. The city water needed to be filtered for them to “enjoy drinking” it. I understood!!</p>
<p>There are lots of families on move in date. Aunts, sisters, parents, friends of parents. Any one who is part of both sides of the equation. Some people are there to help you move in ; meaning hauling boxes and finding tools, carts etc. Some people are there to assist your parents with their own moving on process and the emptying of the “nest”.
But for most two days is plenty and three if there is long distances involved.</p>
<p>Thanks again everyone, I had a chance to talk it over with my parents and they were actually really understanding about it.</p>
<p>I really want to see them all so everyone is going but we’re going to try and arrange it so that it’s not so stressful on the whole family. Me and my dad will probably do most of the actual move-in work and I liked the suggestion of bringing my family up after most of the work and setting up is completed. So the rest of my family can probably explore the campus or relax somewhere on campus.</p>
<p>Looks like this might work out. :p</p>
<p>woo-hoo! CC success story. I think that done right, this could be a family outing and a personal milestone for you that will be remembered for a long time.</p>
<p>You are lucky to have so people go up with you. I was sad to see some internationals come by themselves with two suitcases. I had to move in by myself many years ago because my parents were busy, and that wasn’t fun.</p>