<p>To calm peoples' fears, know this. In general, your suites and bedrooms and housing in general is typically miles above what your peers are going to experience. If you have older siblings in college, forget what their shoe-box room looks like. Your HS buddies who will be visiting you at New Haven? They'll hate you because even the worst Yale freshman rooms are luxurious when compared to other colleges. </p>
<p>Resident Advisor? What's that? You have Freshmen counselors -- not people checking your ID or monitoring you. You're treated as adults with adult responsibilities -- not reams of rules and regulations.</p>
<p>While you might bore of the food, again -- it's miles ahead of many other colleges' fare.</p>
<p>I find the comments by T26E4 a bit off the mark, you may be disappointed with the size at first. What I discovered myself was that Yale freshman suites differ from college to college. Most rooms are smaller than those of other universities because other colleges tend to not have ‘suites’ and instead have a hall, so they accommodate for the lack of a common room with a larger room. </p>
<p>In the end, if the rooms in your suite are tiny, the common room will be more than satisfactory, with the converse being true as well. At the end of the year, you won’t be complaining about a lack of space, believe me. You’ll be satisfied. It works great.</p>
<p>Ha, L-Dub’s rooms are horrible. Very small, but most take their desks out of the room and place them in the common room, making for more of a social atmosphere in your suite. Common rooms aren’t bad there, not huge but it makes up for the small rooms.</p>
<p>But it’s true–compared to many other colleges (especially state universities), the Old Campus dorms are palatial. The bedroom may be small, but there will be at most two people sleeping in it, and you’ll have a common room that you’ll share with, at most, five other people. You won’t have to walk down the hall to a communal bathroom shared with 40 people.</p>
<p>Hey, I was in “L-Dub” 35 years ago, and I thought it was great. We tried to keep our desks OUT of the common room, so the common room was pure social space. The bedrooms were like sardine tins, but all anyone did in there was work or sleep. (Or . . . occasionally . . . other bedroom-type stuff, but not so much that it caused tension among the roommates.) And today, with laptops, there wouldn’t even have been a huge need to have a desk in your room for your typewriter (the only kind of work that really needed to be done in the room back then).</p>
<p>It was much nicer than my friends’ rooms that I saw elsewhere. I thought the common room (with a fireplace, albeit nonworking) was the bomb.</p>
<p>While it’s true that other schools do have bigger “rooms,” I love the suite configuration. More people in one room? AMAZING. Not only do you get to meet more people, but when they have friends over, you make friends with them. And then it cascades. Plus, you really get to make your suite feel like home because you have more space for couches/futons, fridge, TV, entertainment stuff, etc. My friends, while not particularly impressed with my single, loved my common room and the whole concept of it (compared, of course, w/ LW. Plus, once you move into the colleges, it’ll be GREAT 'cause you’ll most likely have a lot of space.</p>