<p>I don't think there is a thread on this yet but I'm sorry if I'm repeating something...</p>
<p>I read somewhere online and have heard from friends that we find out where we are living and rooming with tonight at 5... does anyone know where we go to find this??</p>
<p>I was guessing I would just check my uva email, but that could be totally wrong.</p>
<p>I think everyone gets notified on their myuva page, where the option to "View Housing Assignment" should appear.</p>
<p>The myUVa booklet says you get roommate contact info at 5...are you suppose to call him or her?</p>
<p>I guess it's up to you, but you're going to live with the person for a year. Wouldn't you like to get to know them?</p>
<p>i think the first thing to do is facebook friend. Me and my roommate then emailed about logistics like whose bringing the tv, fridge, microwave, rug etc and then some calling before moving in</p>
<p>I got into the IRC!</p>
<p>But I didn't even send in the parallel (separate) application? (I thought I was too late, so I never sent it in; I had basically resigned myself to applying next year.)</p>
<p>Well, I suppose this is a nice surprise. :)</p>
<p>Where exactly did you find out your assignment galoisien?</p>
<p>Haha it posted my reply above your post.</p>
<p>Wah unfair. I spent one sleepless night for that, lol. Hmmm so this will be interesting, when we finally get there I wonder whether we'll recognize each other... Hahaha</p>
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<p>I'm guessing your post should appear after mine. This forum software seems to act up sometimes. ;) </p>
<p>I went back to the housing application page, where upon I clicked on "view assignment results".</p>
<p>I wanted to spend a sleepless night too. :p I like application essay-writing. :)</p>
<p>Except I was too busy finishing fourth quarter work and forgot all about deadlines. And then the IRC application's deadline of November 2007 just threw me off. </p>
<p>It'll be refreshing to talk Singlish (in real life) with someone other than my family again. ;)</p>
<p>^You're crazy! I got sick of writing essays after the whole US app process (although yeah... It can be quite fun doing all that soul-searching, lol). </p>
<p>Anw you do know that the Nov deadline is for second-years and above and not us right?? Lol. :D</p>
<p>Oh no I am trying to tone down my Singlish - is it that hard to get rid of it??? Hahahaha :D</p>
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Anw you do know that the Nov deadline is for second-years and above and not us right?? Lol.
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<p>But I found that out in the second week of June -- I was just really confused about the first-year app process.</p>
<p>I don't want to repeat the confusion debacle again next year -- so what's the process for future years at the IRC? Must I expect to send an application November 2008 for my second year, or as a second year student next year I send in my application November 2009? (If they keep it in November). This just confuses me you see. I thought that once you're already living on campus your application deadline would be right before incoming students, to process you first, or something.</p>
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Oh no I am trying to tone down my Singlish - is it that hard to get rid of it???
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<p>Immersion makes it easy not to use it. But I like to use Singlish because it's the one creole-language that touches my heart, you see. Acrolect got no xin one. ;-) (Okay, "xin" isn't really "standard" Singlish, but I meant it in the sense of coeur, heart, etc.) It's not that it's hard to get rid of it -- you find very little opportunity to use it. And that's why it brings me joy if I can get to use it again. :D</p>
<p>Also, where are you posted? We should probably check if we're going to be in the same building first. :p (I'm posted to Gwathmey. It sounds Welsh. Melike.)</p>
<p>I think you send your app on Nov '08 for your 2nd year housing?? But yeah woah that's damn early...</p>
<p>Well well well, you obviously do not know my gender, hahaha, I'm posted to Munford. :D</p>
<p>Singlish isn't even my first language you know (I'm not Singaporean) but it's so deeply ingrained in me hahaha. How long have you been in the States btw??</p>
<p>Oh it's 630 am here, feel like sleeping again...</p>
<p>I forgot your gender lisieux. (Male, I guess, otherwise you would be lisieuse? ;)) But checking</a> the website again I forgot that the only place first-year males can get in is at Gwathmey.</p>
<p>I hope I won't regret the fact that it's not air-conditioned though. (But hey, we are Singaporean. ;)) The housing website isn't clear about this though -- what's the largest fan size that's allowed? I mean, if I bring in an industrial-size fan that's bigger than me (not that I will -- I'm just wondering :p), what would they say?</p>
<p>Oh man, do my posts here in CC sound very masculine?? Lol... </p>
<p>Haha I've been living in an air-conless room for the past 4 years so I'm used to it. I stayed in air-con room for 15 years before that but I remember I had no difficulties adjusting to non-aircon so I think you'd be fine too. Yeah the fan is your best friend. Can Charlottesville get hotter than Singapore??</p>
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Well well well, you obviously do not know my gender, hahaha, I'm posted to Munford.
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<p>Oops, my bad. Well, why aren't you called lisieuse, then? ;)</p>
<p>The fact remains that we both won't have air conditioning though -- what cooling equipment are you planning to bring? </p>
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<p>I've criss-crossed. I first came to the US December 1995 (in the middle of a blizzard!) and I last left Singapore about Tuesday, December 28, 2004. (I remember the date because it was two days after the tsunami and the first thing I remember about the trip is reading the newspaper on the plane.) </p>
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but it's so deeply ingrained in me hahaha.
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<p>Ah yes, and that's something the older generation doesn't seem to get. To them, Singlish is a pidgin -- a motley, rojak-rojak collection of languages and a form of speaking where there are no rules. But to us, it's part of our "language module," to take metaphorical liberalities with linguistic theory; we subconsciously see grammar in it, though many of us do not realise it, having been constantly told off in our youngest days about how it's "ungrammatical". </p>
<p>The older generation (including those non-linguistically-trained infidels behind that damn "Speak Good English Movement :p) doesn't simply get why it's such a pervasive habit with us. ;)</p>
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Haha I've been living in an air-conless room for the past 4 years so I'm used to it. I stayed in air-con room for 15 years before that but I remember I had no difficulties adjusting to non-aircon so I think you'd be fine too. Yeah the fan is your best friend. Can Charlottesville get hotter than Singapore??
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<p>I lived in an HDB flat. ;) We did have an air-con room we shared but we were very sparing with it (for economical and electricity bill reasons) -- what we often did was just start it before an hour before we slept, then timed it to go off in our sleep.</p>
<p>But living high-rise also gives you a breeze -- it's more drafty and the heat doesn't get you as much. </p>
<p>Charlottesville is near a mountainous region though? Maybe that will work in our favour.</p>
<p>Worst-case scenario, I'll get like 3 or 4 mega-huge fans. I've always liked sleeping with the wind (artificial or natural) blowing past my face; it's so relaxing.</p>
<p>Ok I don't know much about French, but a French town where a saint is from, and that saint is my, hmmm, how do you say it, my patron saint (not sure what it's called). </p>
<p>Hahaha. I'm planning to get a fan, but I'm going to get it there. Of course I won't lug it all the way from Singapore. 3-4 big fans!!! You'll catch a cold in no time! Haha usually one powerful fan is enough, really... Hahaha.</p>
<p>Ah, the tsunami, yes I remember that as well.</p>
<p>Wow @ your analysis of Singlish. o.O</p>