<p>I'm sure this is stated somewhere official, but CC has the quickest response...
Can we rent mini-refrigerators from the school or do we need to buy them?</p>
<p>By the way, I just talked to a young lady who finished her freshman year and she told me that curtains make the room much cozier. There is carpet in the rooms, apparently, but it is nasty. She suggested a rug to put over the carpet. This was regarding Monroe dorm.</p>
<p>Sounds like good advice.</p>
<p>The fridge answer is…neither. You can rent them, but not from the school. Tulane will send you the name of a company it recommends for the fridge or fridge/microwave combo. They deliver during move-in and pick up at the end of the year. If you don’t care about the microwave, buying is much cheaper.</p>
<p>My d brought her own refridgerator and used the microwave from the kitchen on their floor.</p>
<p>I thought that microwaves were not allowed in the rooms (Sharp/Monroe). Is ths true and if so do a lot of people have them anyway? Does anyone know how much the refrigerstor rental is or where you can buy one cheaper nearby? Thanks</p>
<p>The appliance most kids rent is a combo microwave-refrigerator.</p>
<p>Correct. Individual microwaves are not allowed, which is why the school approves the vendor for the combo. Any stand-alone fridge is allowed, though. So you can buy a WalMart or Target fridge and have that in the dorm room, no rules violated. Not true of a stand-alone microwave or an independently purchased fridge/microwave combo.</p>
<p>Are there microwaves available in a lounge on every floor?</p>
<p>Not sure about that one. Might be dorm dependent. Current students, can you help??</p>
<p>Can’t recall if the microwaves were in the lounges on every floor, but they are pretty accessible. Thats what DS did. That said, sometimes they were a little… um… not clean. He and his roommate had a fridge in their room freshman year (that we bought for less than the cost of the microfridge rental), but in retrospect he says he might have preferred the microfridge just for convenience sake.</p>
<p>As for the carpeting. I agree about getting a rug. The carpet is kinda yukky and they tried to charge me $100 at the end of the year to clean a stain on the rug. They adjusted it down to $40 but it was still a ridiculous charge, IMO, for a rug they were cleaning anyway. That said, sophomore yr, DS bought a black rug. He said it started to show every piece of dirt and he quickly gave it away. Grrr…</p>
<p>This is where that Freshman Target trip during the first week comes in handy. Roommates can agree on which rug to buy, etc. Or maybe I’m just talking about girls!</p>
<p>in sharp there were only 2 kitchens i believe amongst 7 floors (in monroe, i think, there are a few more kitchens because it is a larger building). If you use a microwave a lot, as i did, it is so convenient having it in your room rather than going to the kitchen to use that microwave.</p>
<p>Does anyone know about how much it costs to rent the microwave/refrigerator? The rooms in Sharp and Monroe are so small - where do you put it?</p>
<p>I asked my DS about the layout in Monroe. He said that the pattern, starting with the second floor, was like “no lounge or kitchen, lounge, kitchen” and this pattern repeated every 3 floors. He was on a floor with a lounge and he really liked that. He said if you are on a floor with no lounge or kitchen you could go up or down a floor to get to a lounge or to a microwave. He said he preferred the lounge to the kitchen, and when I asked why, he alluded to things that freshman might choose to do behind the closed doors of a kitchen, suggesting that the food was not the only thing heating up. Ewwww. TMI.</p>
<p>As for the microfridges, I just looked up last year’s registation forms, and rental is not cheap. It was $230. We bought a fridge for a lot less than that, bet that meant DS and roommate had to go tot he lounge to microwave stuff. Was not a big deal for the mostpart.</p>
<p>The put their fridge between their desks.</p>
<p>Here’s a thread about this from last year <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/tulane-university/946346-microfridge.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/tulane-university/946346-microfridge.html</a></p>