<p>Has anyone heard anything about these yet?</p>
<p>The official ones haven't been given out, but apparently you can check online. </p>
<p>These are the directions from the Facebook '10 group to find your room assignment. </p>
<p>Log into WIN.
Click the personal tab.
Under online bills click DEAC, it brings up a new window
Click view accounts
There will be a statement and within it will be a charge for a room, and next to it, it should say what hall you are in.</p>
<p>The "official" assignment with your room-mate should be coming soon, the Orientation website says mid-July, so I'm thinking next week sometime.</p>
<p>*I'm in Luter.</p>
<p>My son is in Babcock...anyone have any info. about this dorm?</p>
<p>im in babcock as well</p>
<p>Babcock is actually one of the nicer freshman dorms. I think that the rooms are slightly bigger than the ones in Johnson/Bostwick (which are mirror images of each other), and all the room in Babcock have sinks, too, which is wonderful.</p>
<p>i'm in johnson</p>
<p>My daughter is in Luter. Would love any info on this dorm.</p>
<p>I was in Luter last year, and I really think it is the best freshmen dorm. What makes luter different from the other freshmen dorms is that the rooms are suite style. The rooms are arranged in hallways, but instead of sharing a bathroom with your whole hall, you have your own bathroom in between your room and the room next to you, so you only have four people to a bathroom. The door to the bathroom has two towel bars on the side that is in your room. The rooms have their own sinks, with a cabinet below it. There is a dresser and mirror with medicine cabinet built in the room for each person. The dresser is kind of high, and for anyone who is on the shorter side (like me) might want to get a step stool . The closets are pretty good size (I brought a ton of clothes and was able to fit them all fine), one for each person, a straight bar across with a shelf above that. There is a built in desk that almost takes up one whole wall (opposite the door to the room). It is just a flat surface with a drawer for each person. There is enough room for each person to have their computer, books, and my roomate and I put our tv in the middle too. There are two chairs in the room too for the desk (again if you are short you might want to get a pillow or cushion for the chair). There is enough room to unbunk the beds. The rooms have their own temperature control. There are two hall wings in Luter, A and B, typically with girls on one side (B) and boys on one side (A). However, and I think this is rare, my actual hallway was coed, with girls on one side of the hall and boys on the other. There are lounges on every floor that are pretty nice. I was on A1 and ours had a fridge and stove in it, but they vary from floor to floor. Luter and Babcock face each other and are behind the library. I loved Luter, and I hope your your daughter does too!</p>
<p>Collins, anyone?</p>
<p>I'm an incoming freshman like you but I visited wake and stayed in Collins. The room I stayed in had a sink and two closets MUCH BETTER than whatever rooms they showed us during the tour.</p>
<p>hi - what does anyone know about Bostwick? Thanks....</p>
<p>My friend was in Collins, and the rooms are a good size. The sink is in one corner of the room and has a mirror over it and big cabinet below it. There is a nice amount of counter space around it for some personal things. There is a towel bar next to it. The rooms have the built in desk thing too, like the one i described in luter with the same chairs. Each person gets their own dresser that isnt built in, so you can move it around. The closets are good size too, with a straight bar across and shelf above that. The room came with a full length mirror on the door too. The hall bathrooms have four toilets and four showers I think. The rooms have their own temperature control. There is a big screen TV in the main lounge and a piano too. The laundry room is in the basement (Luter's is too, both of them have at least 6 washers and 6 dryers). You need to use your ID card to get into the laundry room, and your card only works for your dorm. Collins is right by the basketball courts and behind boswick and johnson (those two are the ones that they show on tours since they are closest to the mag quad). Again, I didnt live there so if anything I said was wrong, please feel free to correct me.</p>
<p>i lived in bostwick freshman year, and while it doesn't have the "special" attributes of some other halls (sinks, personal bathrooms, etc), one could argue that it has the most convenient placement (along with johnson), being directly across the street from the mag quad. it might sound silly, but those who find themselves timing their alarm clock for the <em>exact</em> amount of time it takes them to jump out of bed and make it to class--or anyone on days with awful weather--will undoubtedly appreciate the shorter walk to most classes. i've always thought the students who live in bostwick have a sort of... bostwickiness about them (and i think others will agree that after a while you can sometimes tell in what residence hall a person lived freshman year just by their personality), and though a few people have told me that bostwick is generally a "very social dorm," i can't promise you i really know what that means.</p>
<p>Sosywfu (and shaffer too) thanks for your replies on the dorms. The pictures on the wfu website and any other scant info we've received isn't really enough ... has anyone else noticed that there is precious little mail from Wake? Anyway, some questions, if you don't mind...</p>
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<li>Sosy, I loved your "bostwickiness" comment but can you elaborate? How would you define a "bostwickian"?</li>
<li>I was wondering about the piano... we saw them in some dorms on the tour but now it all blurs together. Is there a piano in Bostwick?</li>
<li>Are the desks movable?</li>
<li>Are the bunks loftable or can/should they be split?</li>
<li>Do most Bostwick people go greek?</li>
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<p>Thanks so much for all your help... Lord knows, we're not getting any "official" information!</p>
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<li>i wish i could accurately elaborate, but i don't think i could do anyone justice! there are just certain attributes i've noticed (and i know many others who agree, so i certainly hope someone here will concur!) that tend to imply someone lived in one hall or another... i'd describe most of my collins friends, for instance, as being kind of goofy and crazy (in a great way, obviously). b-wick students always come off to me as being rather quirky. i'd also venture to say they tend to band together, perhaps because as the rooms aren't the biggest on campus, they have to share sinks and bathrooms with so many people, et cetera, they spend a lot of time out in the lounges instead of in their rooms. but then, i could be imagining all of it.</li>
<li>there is most certainly a piano in bostwick! i believe all the tours stop in either bostwick or johnson which, as someone mentioned, are mirror images of each other. and the piano you saw will still be there in the formal parlor, although other things (specifically, i think they move plants into the parlor for tours or perhaps campus day?) will not.</li>
<li>students can move the desks wherever they want, and i recommend doing so. the setup of the room upon move-in is neither the most flattering nor the most convenient. moving the bed to the wall and configuring the rest of the room from there is probably the most efficient way of doing it. you'll want to make sure the desk is near an outlet so that anything on the desk (including the light that is part of the desk) can be plugged in.</li>
<li>the beds can be lofted, and although i certainly knew people who unbunked without lofting, most of the rooms are too small do to so comfortably without losing a very large amount of space. it's a bit of a sacrifice over whether or not you want space to move and live in or just really want to avoid climbing into bed. in my room we kept the beds bunked, but doing it over again i probably would have unbunked, as my roommate and i didn't spend too much time in our room after the first week or so of freshman year.</li>
<li>i don't know if there are any specific statistics on this out there, but i don't think the percentage of bostwick students who go greek is any different from the average. obviously there will be random fluctuations, and i think a high percentage of girls in collins went greek this past year, but as with a lot of what i'm saying here, that's pure speculation from my own not-so-in-depth observations.</li>
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<p>hopefully at least some of this made sense! i remember my parents and i feeling like i wasn't getting enough information over the summer, either; hopefully that'll be remedied for y'all soon enough. :)</p>
<p>Thanks so much for all the answers. Bostwick sounds like a good place for my son (who will love the roll out of bed with a minute to spare proximity) and who also plays piano. He's already said that he'd rather not climb up to bed so I think he wants to unbunk (debunk?) </p>
<p>Do you remember when you got roommate info?</p>
<p>Wake Forest says mid-July. Judging from the Facebook '09 group it looks like most people heard around the 15th-19th of July last year.</p>
<p>I believe that I am going to be in Piccolo. Anyone else? Is there a former student out there who cares to elaborate on it?</p>
<p>All I know is Piccolo is one of the dorms that is pretty far away from the other ones. It's way out there with Palmer. I've heard the rooms are good sized though. That's all I know. Maybe someone else will have more to say.</p>
<p>I asked someone who went to Wake and he said that, if he had to, he would stay at either Palmer or Piccolo.</p>
<p>For me, its a little far away from where all the action is.</p>