<p>I was just notified that to free up the space in double rooms occupied by a single student, for the 2011-2012 year I have been moved to a different room than the one I had chosen. The room of my choice was on the second floor and now I am to live on the fourth floor where I would have never chosen my room because of the height and location. If in they end up throwing us randomly someplace out of their convenience, why should they even waste our time with all this initial selection process and endless emails?</p>
<p>Life is unfair. Get used to that fact now, while you are still young.</p>
<p>^one should not receive an unfair treatment from people who get 50k per year to render the services that are necessary. We are not asking them for a favor. Uncomplaining people like you is the reason why most residence halls are mice-ridden and falling apart. Should I also learn how to live with the mice while I’m young? Sit there and keep repeating this to myself why they run over my face, back and forth? Should I also count broken heaters as part of life’s unfairness and live with it? I do not see where you get your stupid reasoning. I was just asking for other students’ experience.</p>
<p>Just for clarification, are you concerned because housing is moving you out of a room meant for two people, into a room meant for one person? Or are you concerned because they are moving you into the same kind of room two floors up. I am assuming you are in the south west quad or maybe LXR? If it’s the latter, both do have elevators. If you have an issue with heights, from what I have experienced with housing they are very accommodating, if your request really affects your emotional well-being. If it’s the former, housing is trying to produce the best outcome for the student body as a whole. They do operate on a utilitarian philosophy, if you moving up two floors is going to help house more students or accommodate students with special needs, moving you is a relative inconvenience. Anyway,getting a double all to yourself is a rather serendipitous event. It’s not like they are forcing you to live with a stranger, the room is just smaller. Keep in mind the number of students requiring housing each year is a very fluid number with people going abroad and moving off campus. It would really be unfair if a student expecting to have a place to live on campus next semester couldn’t, because you were entitled to a bigger room. Disregard all that if you do have an extreme fear of heights, which can be accommodated.</p>
<p>If you are getting a single room, you should be very happy. Thousands of college students would kill to get a single room.</p>
<p>Yes, mice inside a building should be addressed. However, they are not that uncommon in many types of buildings. They can enter a building through a very very very small hole and they are hard to completely eliminate during the winter. You can try a cheap plug in device that emits a sound that only mice can hear, that is supposed to keep them out of a room.</p>
<p>God no, they are not moving me to a single room. The move is double to double, with some guy that I have never met. Anyways, I guess I’m gonna have to live with it.</p>
<p>And charlieschm, I have seen a huge mouse/ small rat in the DINING HALL which ran against the wall and disappeared in the corner. That crosses the line. I have lived in other buildings of this type and never had any problems. If these things get through “very very small” holes, I think it is about time that they start filling out those holes, and under the AC’s</p>
<p>Get over yourself.</p>