<p>at ucla..lounges are housing options? that sucks...</p>
<p>No, they converted a bunch of the lounges as "temporary" housing since Sproul is closed and they ended up not having enough room for everyone. It wasn't an option, people just randomly got placed there.</p>
<p>so its just a big room and people sleep/live in there? i hope they dont have to pay the same as someoen with a room...</p>
<p>They moved the furniture out of the lounges and added 3 bunkbeds and then the closets and stuff. </p>
<p>And yeah, I don't know what they're going to have to pay for that.</p>
<p>I wouldn't!!!! I just looked up UCLA's housing rates out of curiosty That is a lot of money, and it doesn't even include tuition. The lowest rate for a residence hall for the year is more than thr overall cost of my MD instate school. They know that more kids want to go to college now than ever before, so schools have higher admissions standards, meaning fewer kids are turning down offers of admissions at schools like UCLA-which is a great school-because they didn't get as many acceptances in general. They need to send out fewer acceptances this year or find better housing options than the lounges. No school should charge anywhere near that much to someone that isn't even getting four complete walls and a locking door! No way!</p>
<p>:) 10 charac</p>
<p>I'm sure they converted the lounge into a room with walls and a locking door. It would be unethical if they didn't. And with laptops and physical safety--no sane parent would send their child to live somewhere without a lock.</p>
<p>I'm in a converted triple now. Could be worse. I was forewarned that one of the roommates wouldn't get along with the others; definitely the situation here. Waiting to be detripled... the room is very spacious for two people and I am looking forward to that day, haha. In all honesty, though, it's not as cramped as I thought it'd be... and I brought a LOT of stuff. We were lucky enough to get a bathroom with some storage (undersink area, medicine cabinet behind the mirror) and two really, really deep closets. Again... it'd be amazing for two people. A tad uncomfortable for three.</p>
<p>Oh, but get this: there's at least three tripled girls in my dorm and the other day I was wandering down a different girls hall and there was a completely empty room with a sign on it that said 'Harriet Potter." As in... there's an empty room in this building and I'm in a triple. So I'm going to check if it's still empty this weekend and talk to the Resident Director next week.</p>
<p>I wouldn't bet that they would structurally change the lounge with a lock, walls, etc. because then after the "temporary" situation, it wouldn't make as good a lounge for all the rest of the students. Very strange housing situations have been reported for different students at different campuses, when more students are accepted for student housing than projected (or fit into existing spaces).
The other thing is by taking the lounge & making it into student housing, that affects ALL the other folks in the dorm that will not have a place to "hang out" & congregate & meet, as was designed for the dorm. Oh well, everyone does the best they can with the situations they find themselves in.
Hope things work out well for your situation--too bad one of your roommates as having such a tough time. Harriett Potter sounds like a lucky lady, if indeed she is a person.</p>
<p>Well they do add locks. I don't think they change the inside of the room, just remove all the furniture and put bunks and desks in. But you kind of have to put a lock on the door. It's not like they are that hard to remove after the year is up.</p>
<p>And yeah, it will totally suck not having a lounge to hang out in. My guess is that a lot of people will end up still hanging in the lounge anyways, since it'll be the largest room on the floor. As if it isn't hard enough having 5 other roommates...</p>
<p>well, I guess it would be forced instant popularity if everyone was always trying to congregate in your room, but gee, what's personal space?</p>