<p>Hello Everyone,
I'm a incoming sophomore transfer and I got assigned a triple.
I'm really nervous because at my previous institution I was assigned a triple as well and though my roommates where nice it really filled me with a lot of anxiety due to lack of privacy and space. </p>
<p>Does anyone have any options or good advice on how I can cope with the idea of a triple [again]. Thanks :)</p>
<p>I’m a freshman and was also assigned a triple. My roommates and I were thinking of lofting a bed so there’s more floor space. Also at Maryland there’s a chance you could get a big, roomy triple, but you might also end up in a converted large double. Good luck! Hope everything works out for you</p>
<p>Yeah! The good news is that I found my room and its supposed to be a triple room. Also too, I think the beds in any triple room are: one bunk bed and one lofted bed. I was briefly in a triple before and found it really strange. It was also a converted double. I am hoping for a better experience!</p>
<p>I would definitely recommend lofting one or more of your beds. Some triples will be “forced triples” which are rooms in between doubles and triples and they only have 2 partitions for closet space.</p>
<p>Several years ago, my D was in a triple in Denton. Tho there was more floor space than a double, there still were only 2 closet spaces, so they had to divide it up between 3 people…I suspect Ellicott room will be similar. Pack lightly…it gets cramped with 3 girls, especially. She put a 2-drawer file cabinet under her desk space, they stacked 2 refrigerators on top of each other and had stuff stacked on their dressers. D had the lower bunk and was able to fill the area under the top bunk with posters and personalize it without taking over the room…She liked being able to crawl into her “space”. She did not study in her room, however.</p>
<p>I knew a lot of people in triples last year. One perk is that you do get a small discount in room charges to make up for having a triple. Another unadvertised one is that more often than not, one of your roommates (or yourself) ends up moving out after first semester. If that happens, you have an extra bed in your room that Reslife may or may not choose to fill with a transfer student next semester, but usually triples are the last rooms they fill. So by second semester you could be living in a triple sized room with only one roommate!</p>