<p>Any opinions about Lower Centennial?</p>
<p>I think I’m in Dravo as well, but there were housing issues on the portal. </p>
<p>flypilot: They mail the info to us, but on the portal in the search engine if you typed in your name and clicked on it, it showed your dorm and room number for a short while. Now that has changed and they took some of the room numbers down, and for some they took down both the room numbers and dorm, like for me lol, so I guess we will see when they mail it to us, or post it on the portal.</p>
<p>Does anyone know if Dravo is for choice housing or not, there have been rumors that it is, but no one said it was or was not for certain.</p>
<p>Historically freshman CHOICE has been in Dravo. It is a growing program, so sometimes there is overflow into other dorms as well. Because of the size of the program, I would guess it will continue to be in Dravo as it is a large dorm. Not all of the floors are CHOICE as it is felt to be important to meet and get along with a diverse group of people and meet as many people as you can. I think last year CHOICE was about 25% of Dravo.</p>
<p>Richards House for my s.</p>
<p>@johnlg: you can still see what dorm you are in by going onto the Portal, go into the Bursar which is in helpful information and contacts box, click student account suite (left side bar), log in, click view current activity on the bill, then select fall 2011 where it has the dropdown box. It will come up with all your expenses and one of them should be “_______” House/Room!
On facebook we have figured out that the a and b wing of the 3rd and 4th floor of Dravo are choice, probably some other wings too, but there are still plenty of non-choice wings!</p>
<p>any opinions on Richards?</p>
<p>Never been in Richards, but it is in the same vacinity as Dravo and Drinker, a smaller building, but I hear the rooms are a bit larger. </p>
<p>Again, all of the freshman dorms are great, so there is no wrong choice here! According to my son, he has heard Richards is a bit quieter than Dravo and M&M, not sure what that is based on though!</p>
<p>I lived in M&M last year. There is definately not room for a floor lamp in the traditional room set-up (the beds parallel, one on each side). Under-bed drawers for me were a must because I am an organization freak and there isn’t much storage in the room as they do not come with a closet or anything like in Dravo. Half-way through the year, my roommate and I changed the set-up of our room by putting the beds in a L-shape (one bed against the far wall -where the window is - and the other in its normal place against the wall but moved down. It gives much more floorspace. We then could have stackable drawers out in the open instead of under the bed (easier access). We also had room for our microfridge which before was awkwardly in between the two beds, under the window. I highly recommend this layout, unless you bunk the beds which obviously gives even more floorspace. The rooms in M&M were quite small but I loved living there. </p>
<p>Let me know if you have any questions about anything at all. :)</p>
<p>Thank you VClaire.
Is there a Dorm policy against using ‘bed risers’ on the bed posts?</p>
<p>Here is the section on bed risers from the housing contract:</p>
<p>e. BED RISERS: Beds may only be lifted off the ground by bed risers. Cement blocks are
prohibited. The stacking of bed risers, one on top of the other, is also not permitted.</p>
<p>My son’s bed was already pretty high when he moved in - three-four feet or so underbed for storage. You can also loft your bed and they are special regulations for that. That was Dravo however, not sure how the beds are set up at M&M.</p>
<p>You were allowed to use Bed Risers in M&M, but people very rarely did since the beds are already very high (I only saw one person who used bed risers and I’m pretty sure she had to leap onto her bed). I bought bed risers myself but ended up returning them since my bed was high enough.</p>
<p>Thank you phillipb and mum.
Here’s another question-
do students bring their own printers?</p>
<p>My son did bring a printer, mostly because he wanted to be able to print things out right before class, late at night, whenever. He worries about such things like, what if the printer he needs to use is broken, busy, out of ink etc… I think this is one of those personal choice things, but for my son, having his own printer worked.</p>
<p>That is just what we were thinking!
Will be curious to see what other Lehigh members post.
Thank you again!</p>
<p>microfridge vs. bringing your own fridge and microwave? thoughts?</p>
<p>you’re not allowed to bring your own</p>
<p>Both my roommate and I brought our own printers. It’s definitely nice to have but if you can’t afford one or don’t want to use the space needed for a printer then using the library is easy enough.</p>
<p>As for the fridge situation, you’re not allowed to have your own microwave – You can only have one if you rent the microfridge. I did not rent the microfridge because it’s kind of expensive and I never heard great things about them but I know a bunch of people who did. I would suggest only renting one if you want to split the cost with your roommate or if you think you’ll be making a lot of popcorn/oatmeal/ramen in your room.</p>
<p>My son and his roomate split the microfridge. It is very large and they hardly ever used the microwave as there is one in the lounge anyway. I purchased a small fridge for him this year.</p>
<p>do you recommend bringing a brita/other water filtration pitcher?</p>
<p>The brita pitcher makes sense, just make sure you can fit it in your fridge.</p>