maysixxmom

Short and to the point, but probably NOT what they want to hear. Oh well, at least he was honest!

ebeeeee

I couldn't find the old missives/emails from college thread but this one is worth sharing.

I felt bad for a parent who was trying to get information on her rising freshwoman's dorm for the fall. I emailed DS who is at the same school to ask if he could tell me anything about the dorm and the fact that the girl was placed in a forced triple.

This is the entire extent of the email I received back:

"It's a freshman dorm. Forced triple blows."

Do you think it would be proper etiquette to cut and paste this in reply to every thread about what someone's room for next year will be?

Maybe not...

ebeeeee

I did forewarn that it was a BOY we were dealing with.

RatedPG

Ha ha, ebeeeee, it was me you gave that wonderful reply to ! At least I got an answer in all its brutal honesty. Many thanks.

ebeeeee

I know... I tried. No offense RatedPG, I can TOTALLY understand wanting as much information as possible about the dorm...it's just funny because I have seen soo many posts like yours asking about dorm rooms and it seems that once the kids get there they are very matter of fact about the whole thing.
It's a room...it's tiny....whatever.
Of course, that is probably just the boys. In the fall of 09 when my only precious DD goes off to school I'm sure she will be stressing over the dorm.

katliamom

FYI, my D is at the same school as ebeeeee's son, and she was in a triple her freshman year.

Her experience was actually very good. In her suite there were two bedrooms - a double and a triple. There was also bathroom and a small living room. But the triple was by far the biggest and nicest room in the suite. It had more natural light and space than the other rooms, and one of the girls from the double unsuccessfully lobbied to swap with someone from the triple. (Which was funny, since the triple was cheaper.) The triple, not the living room proved to be the place of choice to hang out in the suite, and the living room was more of the quiteter study area.

This is just my way of saying -- sometimes the triples DON'T have to blow...

mommusic

A forced triple, by definition, is a lousy situation b/c it's 3 living in the space of 2.

But a real triple can be very nice. I was in a triple one year, and it was massive by dorm standards.

The worst dorms I ever saw were at a school that does not need to be named, as it's a fine Flagship U and there are probably similar dorms everywhere, it's just that I haven't seen them. But it was arranged so that 4 kids slept in bunks stacked like cordwood in one area, and then there was a similar tiny area for them ALL to store their clothes and stuff...it looked like an army barracks.

I was privately horrified but DS was fine with staying there for 2 weeks for a summer camp. He didn't know any better, you see...

NorthMinnesota

D1 was very lucky last year to be placed in a triple....but with only one other girl! They were ecstatic!!! The only requirement was they had to host the freshman recruits when they came for overnights. It worked really well.