<p>My D will be in a 4 person suite. The welcome letter says average room size is 7 x 11 bedrooms and 12x 13 common rooms. "closet space is limited" Are any suites larger?</p>
<p>Does each student get a closet or is one shared?</p>
<p>Those bedrooms sound so small - how does that work out?</p>
<p>Are the bunks the typical twin XL that most colleges have??</p>
<p>My other two kids went off to college with a trunk for clothing. Could that even be an option in LW?
What is the bathroom situation there?</p>
<p>I don't see much online describing the floorplans, etc hence all my quesions!
Thanks for any/all input!</p>
<p>As I recall, there was one closet per bedroom (so, one for every two students). Each student also has their own dresser. It was enough space for clothes for my roommate and I, but I don’t require a lot of closet space.</p>
<p>The way my bedroom was arranged (and the way it will probably be set up when you arrived) - was one set of bunked beds (all beds at Yale are extra-long twin) with one desk and the two dressers, as well as a closet at the end of the room. There were also two desks in the common room (i.e. one from each bedroom), though some suites chose to put all 4 desks in the common room. There was not much space to maneuver in the bedroom - I was only in there when either sleeping or working at my desk (as I had the desk in the bedroom - normally the person who is likely to go to sleep earlier should take that one).</p>
<p>As I remember, common rooms were 11x17, not 12x13, but perhaps that is different in the Pierson side of L-Dub (I was in Saybrook) - is your daughter in Pierson or Saybrook?</p>
<p>You can fit a trunk in the bedroom, but it will be tight, and you’re already space-limited, so I’d probably recommend against.</p>
<p>Thanks for your reply. You were very informative. My daughter will be in Pierson.
Re:bathrooms, where are they? Shared by how many students?
Re: trunk- maybe could use as a coffee table in common area?
Well, this should all be interesting!!!
Thanks.</p>
<p>Bathrooms are out in the hall of each floor of each entryway, which means a few feet away from the door to each suite. Depending on what entryway your daughter is in, there are either 2 or 3 suites on each floor. My bathroom was shared by 11 people - it had 2 showers, 2 toilets, and 2 sinks. </p>
<p>Using the trunk as a coffee table in the common room should certainly work - there’s certainly enough space for that if the girls in the suite want to use it that way.</p>
<p>yes, the fifth floor has no common rooms. the people up there usually just hang out in their rooms, one or two rooms usually become the hangout spot.</p>
<p>There’s plenty of room for a small chair. The 5th floor doubles are substantially bigger than the bedrooms on the lower floors (to make up for the lack of common rooms).</p>
<p>Looking for a little more info on the fifth floor rooms if anybody is still reading this thread. I know that the beds are not usually bunked so they can provide seating. How is storage? Looks like the closets are low and small so we’re thinking about underbed storage boxes. Is storage tight enough to encourage raising the bed or would the usual underbed boxes provide sufficient space?</p>
<p>desiw, do you mean if the bunks are left stacked, can you get anything under the lower bunk? If that’s the question, then yes, you can get large, flat plastic boxes underneath. Maybe 6 inches high would slide under? I don’t think it would be a good idea to raise the beds while they’re bunked because of the risk of toppling. </p>
<p>If I were you I’d wait to see if you can unbunk, then use riser to get more space underneath. PM me if you want to share a room number, and if I’m familiar with that room configuration, maybe I can help. D was L-Dub last year, so I can also ask her…</p>
<p>Thanks riverrunner - was your D in Saybrook L-Dub? That’s where my S is. I was under the impression that the room is so small that no one debunks the beds. So I was asking about storage space under the lower bed of the stacked bunks. 6 inches is not much height for storage though.</p>
<p>When I was in L-Dub, my roommate and I shoved our empty luggage under the lower bunk and that was about all that could fit - 2 people going away to college have a fairly large amount of it. It would have been basically impossible to de-bunk, and I think that’s the case for most L-Dub bedrooms.</p>
<p>Thanks for the info. I know that they have to share 1 closet. I hope their dressers have enough room. Probably not…It will be interesting to say the least…</p>
<p>desiw, she wasn’t in the Saybrook side, so maybe the rooms were larger than Saybrook’s. </p>
<p>While they were able to unbunk the beds (debunk has an entirely different meaning, of course) it was crowded! They fit end to end on one wall, and their dressers fit side by side on the opposite wall. They could walk down the aisle in between, but it was definitely narrow. The unbunking itself was quite a feat. Don’t move anything into the bedroom until you’ve rearranged the furniture!</p>
<p>Wow, the rooms really are small. I’ll bet L-Dub has the smallest rooms on Old Campus. Was there room for the stackable drawers or anything like that? Cause I’m guessing that there isn’t much space in the dressers for all the clothes.</p>
<p>desw, they were able to fit a storage piece between the dressers along that wall. With the beds end to end, the usable wall space on the opposite side was also about 12 feet. Two dressers equals about 6 feet, so they had room for something on the order of 4-6 feet in length. </p>
<p>Don’t buy anything until you get a good look. Bring a measuring tape. Make sure the roommate is OK with the plan. It should be worked out by the students, and not something driven by the parent, although as time runs out, many of us had to take the wheel, and in our case, I think there was relief all around when some action was taken.</p>
<p>Hang in there. It was a very busy, stressful but fun weekend.</p>