<p>hi!
im class of '10 and i have a quad (yes, 4 in one room) in tower court west. i wonder if anybody knows what the room will be/look like. im just curious!!</p>
<p>Do you have access to FirstClass, yet? The floor plans are all available on the housing/transportation conference. That will tell you if you have one enormous room or a suite of smaller rooms. (Quads tend to be suites, but I'm not as familiar with Tower Court.)</p>
<p>I'm assuming you're the quad in the northwest corner of the second floor, no? It is one fairly big room, just slightly larger than two of the coveted closets they call first year doubles in Tower. You have a bathroom, but I can't tell if you have one closet of two based on the little white spot on the floor plan. The one closet I'm sure you do have is at least as twice as big as a closet two people would be expected to share in a Tower double. It looks like a walk-in. Unless you or one of your roomates is a clothes horse, that shouldn't be a problem. There's a Home Depot on Speen Street, which is is just before the Natick Mall (you would turn right heading west) should you need a closet rod (under $10). </p>
<p>Tower has a lot of differenly shaped rooms, so I've never been in that particular quad and that means I can't tell you much as to what it looks like. I think I ran into one of the students who lived there last year in the dining hall. Big Tower rooms net you two window seats (but you seem to have three double windows). You will have the standard Tower furniture, except times four: bed, desk, dresser, desk lamp, bookshelf. I recommend stacking the bookshelves, and I can't see your beds not being bunked.</p>
<p>I lived in a one room triple last year. A quad will be fun if you look at it as one big slumber party. Just remember to make friends with the other people on your floor. The only issue with four to a room is sleeping schedules. And that's all I know.</p>
<p>There are also three other first year rooms on your floor. I</p>
<p>thanks so much wendyMouse, this makes me a little less worried that the room will be really really tiny.
also, ringer05 i dont think i have access to firstClass yet.</p>
<p>Yeah, you would know if you had access to FirstClass. It's your email account extraordinaire. Some incoming students seem to have it, but others don't.</p>
<p>If you don't want to stack the bookshelves on top of each other, you can also stack them on top of the desks. It works to put them on top of the desk shelf or the other way around, but you lose desk space if you put the bookshelf on the bottom.</p>
<p>If you have a cube-sized mini-fridge and can't find a good place for it, it will fit under one of the desks (but that person will lose leg-room).</p>
<p>thanks for the advice...
but, would a one mini fridge work for four people? what do people usually put in them? just drinks?</p>
<p>If you want to buy perishable groceries, then no, one mini-fridge will not suffice. But every floor has its own kitchen, complete with a refrigerator. Some dorms are worse than other when it comes to stolen goods, but you're usually okay if you put your name on it and say, "DON'T EAT THIS." (Or, "Please eat this," if you're trying to get rid of stuff.)</p>
<p>My first-year triple had one cube-sized fridge and did just fine. We rarely put anything in there. Water, the occasional apple, jell-o, take-out leftovers, cups of milk from the dining hall (in the pre-nondisposable days). Not much. My senior year, I used it more as an extra [noisy] shelf than anything else. Many people relied quite heavily on their refrigerators ... it all depends on how much perishable food you think you'll want to have immediately on hand.</p>
<p>Tower dining hall is open 7 days, and the meal plan provides unlimited meals whether you eat there or not.</p>
<p>It really depends on how much perishable food you feel you need to have on hand after hours. The inconvenience store allows you to get this kind of stuff via the meal plan. We stored some of that stuff, along with fruit and takeout leftovers that usually ended up rotting in there because I would just go down to the dining hall for more food. You can get away without one just enough so that four people sharing one should be no big deal. I'd get a larger size though, just because there are four people. During Wintersession/Spring Break you will have to use the common fridge to some degree- but there are fewer people using it.</p>
<p>If you've got the ability to store/transport a fridge over the summer, I would make one of your other roommates buy it. Then you buy your own off of some senior for little money at the end of the year (they don't quite pay you to take it, but close enough). Even buying a used fridge off of "For Sale" at the beginnning of the year is fairly cheap. Fridges make excellent TV stands.</p>