<p>JHS:</p>
<p>But what happens if you don’t get along with your roommate at Yale? S’s freshman suite included one person who did not get along with the rest, though on paper he had a lot of things in common with other members of the group. To everyone’s delight, he became part of another blocking group.</p>
<p>If you don’t get along with your roommate, you don’t room with him/her next year. The rooms aren’t set in stone, just the college. (That’s not set in stone, either, but transfers are minimal.) </p>
<p>I actually didn’t like one of my roommates – the one I shared a bedroom with – very much at all, although we never fought or anything. He wound up rooming with other people I didn’t like so much, and we all stayed frenemies. One of our roommates transferred colleges (and then dropped out); the fourth and I joined up with two guys from right below us (who were happy to split up with their prep-school drug-dealer other roommates). </p>
<p>There was lots of slicing and dicing of rooming groups, but not all that much angst about it, because there was a pretty wide variety of housing in the college. I don’t remember anyone getting hosed or forced to live with people they didn’t like, unless they took a term off. I got a lifelong friend from the suite where I was dumped when I returned from a fall internship, and I really liked the transfer student that got foisted on my suite senior year when one of my roommates withdrew. But apart from those situations, everyone I ever roomed with had been in the same entryway freshman year. And my best friend’s freshman room (sharing a floor with mine) reconstituted itself for senior year (sharing a floor with my room), so that 7 out of 8 came from adjacent freshman rooms (and it would have been 8 of 8 but for the stop-out). We never would have formed a blocking group at the end of freshman year, though.</p>
<p>JHS:
Your experience does not sound all that different from S’s experience. The angst did not last all that long! I put it down to teenage drama.</p>
<p>i’m not a parent, but i sure got pretty stressed out about blocking this year. still sorta am stressed about it, since housing assignments aren’t out yet, and I’m sorta considering transferring if I get into a house I really don’t like. [I was also considering going solo as a floater before.]</p>
<p>as for Yale’s housing drama: I talked to a Yale grad before, and he seemed pretty unhappy about his whole Yale experience because he felt that most of his friends were in another college and he was stuck in a college that he didn’t have many friends in.</p>
<p>^^</p>
<p>Good luck tomorrow - I’ll be the one in the tuxedo screaming that Adams is the best.</p>
<p>Well my son just texted us… It’s Quincy House for him. He seems very happy. Any word on Quincy for us? Thanks!</p>
<p>Guitars101, Its a river house so its got to be good- right??? D got Leverett she is happy but the angst and hard feelings caused by blocking group drama has been stressing her out. I think that Yale’s system may have been better, no one “left out” or hard choices being made, realize its part of life but there were some tears along the way that I wish could have been avoided. Good lessons that were learned… unfortunately the hard way…That being said we had no drama the first semester so it is probably just my turn!!! Glad thats over whats next!!!</p>
<p>Just got word my D is in the Quad, Currier House. Some dissapointment from the blocking group to be in Quad, but they hear the rooms are spacious and dining hall very good. Any additional info?</p>
<p>Dear Beach02,</p>
<p>Tell your daughter not to worry about the Quad. My son lives in Phofo (50 feet from Currier) and wouldn’t want to live anywhere else.</p>
<p>Check out Currier’s wikipedia page at [Currier</a> House - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Currier_House]Currier”>Currier House - Wikipedia)</p>
<p>Hey, Bill Gates and Steve Balmer supposedly met and started the idea for Microsoft in Currier House…Caroine Kennedy and Yo-Yo Ma lived there too.</p>
<p>No blocking group angst reported by my kid, who will be in Mather – and seems quite happy about it. Anyone know much about that house?</p>
<p>Thanks Onedown!
She was the most excited of the group because she’s been to Currier for some things so I am sure it will all work out. Impressive group of former residents!</p>
<p>Dear Whatever4,</p>
<p>Mather has a wikipedia page at <a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mather_House_(Harvard_University[/url])”>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mather_House_(Harvard_University)</a> with a link to the offical Mather House page.</p>
<p>Conan O’Brien lived in Mather.</p>
<p>If I remember correctly Mather is one of the most distant river houses so it is probably no closer to the classroom buildings than the Quad area. Also Mather is a relatively modern highrise buidling</p>
<p>Currier for my freshman daughter too. She was thinking she wanted a river house, but her older sister is next door in Pfoho and she does tae kwon do at the QRAC, also next door, so she seems pretty stoked. There are lots of single rooms within suites in the Quad houses.</p>
<p>This past year my son met his Christian Impact group at Mather and he said it was great. They ate their a few times with the group leaders and food was very good. </p>
<p>My son was very impressed by Currier and said that if he was placed in the quad he would want to live in Currier. Very Very nice inside. Awesome alum… Michael Chertoff, Bill Gates, Yo-Yo Ma, Caroline Kennedy etc.</p>
<p>Everyone will love where they end up. My son first had apprehensions about living in Matthews his first year, but it turns out that he LOVED it and couldn’t imagine living any place else. </p>
<p>Has anyone checked out the personal websites to the individual houses? Quincy’s mascot are the Penquins :)</p>
<p>Mather ftw =D
(ironic since they were one of the houses I burned…but o well)</p>
<p>MY HOUSE…</p>
<p>Thanks, Onedown. As I said, he was happy with Mather, but he probably would have been happy with where ever he ended up.</p>
<p>“D got Leverett”</p>
<p>Woohoo! She’s very lucky. And our list of alumni is not too shabby, especially in my field: Larry Tribe and Chief Justice Roberts were both Leverites. (Pete Seeger and Cornel West, too.)</p>
<p>Guitars, Congrats on having a Penguin. S is in Quincy (“The People’s House”). There is a chance he will spend sophomore year in DeWolfe, which serves as overflow housing for, I think, three of the houses. These are very nice two bedroom suites, complete with full kitchens. After sophomore year, S’s foursome added fifth so they could move into one of the two floor suites in New Quincy. (Quincy residents are actually spread over three buildings-- DeWolfe, Old and New Quincy.)</p>
<p>[i</a> was quadded](<a href=“http://darthno.ytmnd.com/]i”>http://darthno.ytmnd.com/)</p>
<p>Gadad,</p>
<p>So Currier it is!! Great!! Actually as the day has gone on my D has found more and more of her friends in the Quad…hummm…maybe it’s now the place to be!!</p>
<p>She’s on her flight home for Spring Break :-))))))))</p>