<p>I received info from an AU vendor showing a bedding set with “Extra Long” sheets. I was under the assumption that the twins were regular length. Does anyone know for sure?
Thanks!</p>
<p>Now I’m really confused. On the AU CD, “What to bring checklist” it states that each double room is equipped with regular twin beds and to bring regular twin sheet sets.</p>
<p>The vendor is incorrect. AU beds use regular twin sized sheets. </p>
<p>However, I happened to have a set of extra long sheets and didn’t feel like buying new ones, and it was fine. I just tucked the extra under the mattress.</p>
<p>When is everyone planning to arrive? We plan to get in to DC on the 13th to spend time with oldest son and his new wife (married July 5; it’s been a busy summer)… We’ll pick up our pack-and-hold from BB&B on the 14th and S wants to be on campus to move in bright and early on the 15th, so he can be free of us sooner, I think. My guess is that he will be unpacked and ready to say goodbye an hour or so after we arrive!</p>
<p>Middle son is coming with us and is flying from DC for his semester abroad on the 16th.</p>
<p>While we have been childless this summer because S1 lives in DC and S2 and S3 worked the summer at different camps, I think the reality of being empty nesters will hit really hard on the way back, when we realize no one is really coming back to live…our home will only be a way station on their journeys for now on.</p>
<p>We will be rising bright and early on the 16th (D is in a theater production that doesn’t close till the night of the 15th) to drive down from New England and move D in to her room by day’s end. Then H and I will stay overnight in a hotel and, believe it or not, bring D back home with us on Monday, so she can finish out her camp job commitment through Thursday afternoon, at which point she’ll take a late train back to DC. Whew! It’s a messy way to start, but since D has to be at AU for a morning program on Friday and can’t just walk away from her job, we couldn’t figure out anything better. I’m not very fond of AU’s schedule. None of D’s friends’ colleges start this early. At least it’s only a freshman phenomenon.</p>
<p>I was a little concerned that D would be missing out on activities and socializing by not being around the first week, but she tells me that a lot of the kids she’s contacted through the AU social networking site aren’t moving in till the last day, so she’s not worried.</p>
<p>I agree that although D has spent her summers away for many years, this empty nest will be a different kind. After S left for college, even when he was home for the summer the dynamics weren’t the same. (Though his first words on arriving home from work at night were still “What’s for dinner?”–some things never change.)</p>
<p>MommaJ,
It’s a good thing the kids are young and run on adrenalin.</p>
<p>My son has been working about 11 hours/day all summer at camp, and they asked him to work the same hours with the day care program after camp ends on July 7. He’d love to do it for the money but he’s glad he is already committed to the FSE at AU with his University College group for that week.</p>
<p>What I think he will miss the most is his soccer. He considered playing in college, and had a good amount of recruiter interest, but decided DI was more of a commitment than he wants to make, and didn’t like his D3 options as much as AU. He’s continuing with soccer, helping coach the high school team at open fields/captains’ practices after camp every day , and also playing in an alumni league. He wants to hook up with the club team at AU as soon as possible.</p>
<p>We haven’t received any info on Welcome week orientation and check in. Has anyone gotten anything yet? I can’t believe my S leaves in about 2 weeks!</p>
<p>Just thought I’d revive this thread a bit and tell those considering AU for next year (and those who haven’t yet moved in this year) that move-in Sunday was a breeze. AU continues to impress. We were directed to park right in front of D’s dorm, lots of handtrucks were available to get her stuff upstairs, the people at the front desk were friendly and competent. I think spreading freshman move-in over 5 or 6 days makes it easier on everyone. D’s only concern now is that one of her three roomies decided not to attend after all–just a few days ago! So the room is set up as a forced triple unnecessarily. She’s hoping they take away the top bunk and de-loft the other bed ASAP, and especially hoping that they don’t find a substitute third roommate. It’s a crowded situation for three people; the top bunk and lofted bed are very hard to get in and out of and with that set-up none of the three beds can be used for sitting and hanging out.</p>
<p>It wasn’t bad moving in although busy busy busy on Saturday when we did it. Not enough hand trucks at all but we managed! Your D is lucky - mine is in the triple and it is, shall we say, cozy…but to detriple either someone has to drop out or if the option to detriple comes up, the students themselves have to decide how to handle it, i.e. who moves out…or not.</p>
<p>Not so lucky after all khsstiches–Housing has magically come up with a replacement third roommate. I guess they figured since all the furniture was there, they might as well keep it a triple. Meanwhile the girl across the hall has no roommate assigned at all. Curious. Apart from the “coziness” and unpleasant beds, the challenge is how to divide up two closets and two sets of drawers among three people. Luckily, roommate #1 brought very little and seems fairly ascetic–no photos, posters or other personal items, not even a comforter or bedspread. Hopefully #2 won’t arrive with 2 trunks and 20 pairs of shoes.</p>
<p>My son is one of the lucky ones–a very nice double, a very nice roommate. My son didn’t bring too much–he didn’t even fill his drawers and closet although he does have a few stackable drawers under his bed because he likes to keep things separated. His dorm opened at 9 on Saturday and he was done arranging and unpacking by 11! Spent the rest of the time helping female floormates–rearranging furniture, shlepping heavy stuff etc.</p>
<p>I thought maybe he got a double because he is in a UC but the boys in the room next to his are tripled and they are in his UC as well. He thinks he lucked out because his housing deposit was sent in early in January as he was accepted ED.</p>
<p>He still has some issues to work out with respect to his schedule–his Wednesday labs all overlap time wise.</p>
<p>MommaJ, the triple my son is in has three dressers and three desks (although only 2 wardrobes). All in a room about half the size of his bedroom at home. But, all three boys seemed to have packed lightly, there are several cabinets on the storage wall with nothing yet in them. I am sure your offspring could request a third dresser for the room, if there is room.</p>
<p>We were also pleased with the ease of move in and the charm of the staffers we met. There was some talk of a parent who slept over with their child on Saturday night, my son looked horrified just hearing about it!</p>
<p>My son too is in a triple with 3 dressers and plenty of storage. There was room in the closet for the extra student (but I think girls are more likely to bring more clothes than boys). We had to rearrange the beds/loft for optimum floor space, but everything is apparently going smoothly.
We heard from my S yesterday and it seems that his experiences this first week have been great, and AU so far, is everything he has hoped it would be.</p>
<p>My son is in a triple with three dressers but two closets. Luckily, both his roomates didn’t bring as much as my son did so it is managable. I spoke to my son yesterday and he says his room is party central, so my husband is worried that he won’t buckle down and study.</p>
<p>I agree move in was smooth, although we had to wait an hour to pull up to the dorm (got there at 9am almost exactly).</p>
<p>He seems to be having a great time, posting stuff on Facebook that I haven’t seen but my husband has described.</p>
<p>Having sent both species to college, I can vouch for the fact that boys bring far less. Just think of the variety of toiletries and cosmetics girls use, the different types of clothing, jewelry, shoes. S took three sets of footwear-one pair of sneakers, one pair of sandals and one pair of decent loafers in the unlikely event he had to dress up; D has more than 3 pairs of flip flips alone! It would make sense, though not be politically correct, to give all the triples to the boys. I’m just hoping one of D’s roommates is compulsively neat and keeps the place in order; otherwise my disorganized ADHD child will spend most of her freshman year searching for her possessions amid the chaos.</p>
<p>D heard that there are open spaces in other dorms (Anderson being one) and that kids who have had to live in the lounge’s are being moved into rooms first which does make sense. I would have hated that for her. Then they basically see who doesn’t bother to show up and sort of let it all settle, then they work on undoing the triples. My D #1 started in a triple at CMU and in about 3 weeks it was back to a double. And yes, boys don’t bring anywhere near the stuff. The boys were done in a flash. The girls? All day. And 2 more runs to the Container Store and Target. And I thought we had it all done… I mean really, the girl went to boarding school and we already had a lot!! Sigh. No new running shoes for me, yet.</p>
<p>Are there really students who simply no show after paying the deposit and tuition???</p>
<p>One of D’s roommates bailed just last weekend. I assume she hadn’t paid the tuition yet, because she told D it was a financial issue. I can’t imagine how that manifested itself so late in the game unless the poor kid was a pawn in some parental game of chicken.</p>
<p>Any news from any offspring? I think mine has disappeared off the face of the earth. Which, i assume, means everything is just fine. I’m afraid he’s having way too much fun, but I’m hoping he will get it out of his system and settle down next week.</p>
<p>I talked to my S tonight. He was fine, but a bit bored, not that impressed with UC and Discover DC, so far and ready to start classes Monday.</p>