<p>So, do students who go to pre-orientation get to move in first? I could see some possible conflict arising from that...</p>
<p>It depends on the preorientation, but yes, some of them do (or all of them?). For FIT and IO, where the students are living on campus, it’s kind of necessary.</p>
<p>My D is doing a pre-orientation, and she will be sleeping in her dorm room on the night of 9/1. However, I believe that we do not bring her stuff until move-in day (9/2). So even though technically she will be sleeping in her dorm room one day early, she won’t be moving in until everyone else does.</p>
<p>I meant to say she won’t be moving in early - she will move in when everyone else does.</p>
<p>I know that International Orientation moves in on the 30th (the earliest of all the Pre-orientations).</p>
<p>Oh don’t worry…we IO participants have a diabolical plan to steal the keys of all the rooms and ‘wet’ all the beds (except ours of course)…</p>
<p>Light-- let’s meet up @ IO and I’ll help you out with that plan.</p>
<p>Oh I have lots of plans…check out my post in the IO thread to read the full list…wonder if Tufts will provide financial aid for it…:D</p>
<p>The Wilderness program moves in early, as well.
I’m somewhat sure that FOCUS does too, which would be all the per-orientation programs.</p>
<p>So how common is it for the first arrival to claim the “best” stuff? I suppose it depends on the nature of the person…</p>
<p>Well. . . there isn’t any stuff. There are two identical beds, and two identical dressers. The person who moves in first typically take what they perceive to be the better-positioned bed, but as reasonable people disagree about the optimal placement for a bed, and there’s not a huge difference between the two in the first place, I’ve never heard of this being an issue.</p>
<p>My roommate did a pre-orientation (and I did not) and when I moved in, I found that even though he’d moved into the room a week prior, he had deliberately avoided choosing a bed so that I could pick my favorite. We’ve been friends ever since.</p>
<p>^ Wow, lol, that’s so nice…!</p>
<p>Does that mean he slept on both? Or on the floor?</p>
<p>Or maybe he pitched a tent in the corridor ???</p>
<p>There is an understanding that kids can rearrange their furniture into whatever configuration they want that is safe…So even if one student gets in early, both students can still move things around to their mutual liking once they are moved in together. If anything is broken or in disrepair that should be taken care of by maintenance, and could easily be reported by the early arrival, which could be a benefit. Also, the roommates come together on things like possibly a shared rug and mutual rental of fridge/microwave…not to mention the littany of other new compromises and ways to come together as roommates. If your student is concerned maybe he/she could contact his/her roommate and talk about it? There will be many things for them to work out together…that’s all a part of this new experience!</p>
<p>I had the same thought as 3.7, haha.</p>
<p>He did Wilderness Pre-orientation: he moved stuff into his room and them moved out with his Wilderness group to the Tufts Loj later that same day, and from there into the White Mountains.</p>
<p>Well, it’s definitely my issue more than my D’s (heck, let’s be honest, most things I bring up on CC are my issues, not my kids’, like most parents here, IMO). I never lived in dorms during college- always had an apartment, so it’s all a bit of a mystery to me. I definitely get it that it’s up to her and her new roomie to sort out any issues, which I believe they aer already doing on FB. Thanks for all the input though- CC is great for parents like me who have concerns or questions but who are trying not to nag/bug their kids about them :)</p>