<p>I'm an incoming freshman who missed the deadline to accept my housing offer cuz I didn't realize that the offer got sent to my berkeley email account. So I signed with Telegraph Commons because it's close to campus. Can anyone tell me about the place? Is it noisy? Is there a lot of rats? (I'm TERRIFIED of them lol)</p>
<p>Hey sea! I too will be dorming at TC. To be honest, from what I saw when I went to open house, the noise level is really that high anywhere in the building. It is being renovated right now (2nd/3rd floor) so depending where you signed up for, you could be ending up with new furniture and such. Since they are switching to new management, I hope there will not be any rat problems as well. (Yes, I am afraid of rats as well, haha.)</p>
<p>wow that’s awsome, hope we’ll get a chance to meet when I move in! I picked the existing floors (floors 4-5) because of the price and because I thought they would be quieter.</p>
<p>Hey! Do you guys know how small the small doubles are? Would it be uncomfortable? Also, do you know how social the house is in general?</p>
<p>I visited Telegraph and looked at a double last week. Also note that it was an existing floor normal double, not a remodeled floor one. </p>
<p>I would say that it is slightly larger than the Unit 3 double I stayed in during CalSO. The desk arrangement is also different. In the Unit 3 double, the desks were placed facing each other in the center of the room sandwiched between the two beds placed on the far sides. This made it a sort of hard to scoot your chair out to get in and out of the desks. I noticed in the Telegraph double, the desks were placed at different corners of the room. The furniture arrangement in the Telegraph room was non-symmetrical; both sides had a slightly different arrangement, unlike the Unit 3 double. I personally prefer that kind of arrangement so I wouldn’t have to face my roommate if I wanted to study in the room at night and the fact that it is easier to get in and out of the desk.</p>
<p>Either way, I thought the Telegraph double looked pretty nice. I’m going to stay in one this fall.</p>
<p>Hi yeggs! I don’t know how small the small doubles are but I picked the regular double myself. It’s only a 200 dollars difference and I’m sure you’ll be more comfortable in a regular double.</p>
<p>I would choose the regular double but there’s only small doubles left on the renovated floor. But there is a regular double left on co-ed floor. Should I live on the coed standard double or new small double? Also, is the existing floor dirty? i heard there was a rat problem…</p>
<p>I’ll be on floor 2!, double here as well. I’ll be sure to stop by to say hello.</p>
<p>Yay! Did you check out any other housing options like westminster?</p>
<p>Yeah I checked out Westminister but it was a little out of my budget. I would rather live in TC and save 4-5K a year.</p>
<p>Hey everybody I’ll be living at TC in a renovated single next year, don’t know what floor though. I heard someone mention something about a co-ed floor. I assumed that all the floors are co-ed. Does anyone have any insight into this?</p>
<p>P.S. should we make a facebook group?</p>
<p>They are somewhat Co-ed but Tiffani told me that it usually ends up being boys on one floor and girls on another. 5th is the one that is somewhat actually co-ed (from last year, but it could be different this year).</p>
<p>yeah, I’m on the 5th floor and Tiffani said it was an all-girl floor.</p>
<p>i just got put in a renovated double on the all girls floor! seee you guys thenn =]</p>
<p>Room 208 here. I asked Tiffani if I could make a Facebook group and have her send the link to all the TCers but I haven’t gotten a response yet.</p>
<p>Lol, I got co-ed floor. This will be interesting.</p>
<p>All the units are co-ed. It’s pretty normal.</p>
<p>Oh, ok. I guess they only do all girls, all guys during CalSo, on special floors, and in Bowles/Stern.</p>
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<p>Not all the units are co-ed, most of them are, but not all.</p>