| guitars101, I will use my DD's room as an example: There are a total of 5 people in her room (suite). The suite has three bedrooms, a common area, and the bathroom is outside - down the hall. The bedrooms are fairly small and can only comfortably accommodate bunk beds. Hence, she sleeps on the bottom bunk and her roomie on the top bunk. Of the five roomies, four sleep using this arrangement, and the other one has a room to herself - they decided this at the beginning of the year. Incidentally, each student has a dresser, chest of drawers, desk and bookcase. The arrangement that DD and her roomies use is that the desks and bookcases are situated in the common area, and the drawers and dressers are in the bedrooms. Needless to say, there is not a lot of room left for other things - they did manage, though, to put a futon in the common area. From what I understand, what I have described is not atypical for frosh housing at H.
Contrary to others on CC who rave about frosh housing at H, I have to tell you that I was taken aback by how small the rooms were. Other colleges that we visited have larger rooms. Before I get flamed, I will acknowledge that the dorms have a lot of "character" - nice wooden floors - and history - JFK lived in DD's dorm.
Please let me know if you have any other questions, and congrats on your son's acceptance to H. |