Quick Questions Thread - Page 4

shoebox10 · 07-31-2007, 09:58 AM

Weather in B-burg is off the map, all the time. I remember last year being in shorts/tees mid-october, then heavy stuff through the end of october, then a brief warm spell (shorts) beginning of november, then COLLLDDD. Keep in mind 4/16's troubles began with the weather: it was windy and snowing, thus helicopters could not land on the DF to evacuate people. Slight, public, well-known reminder of the grim reality of the weather down there. Definitely leave a few pairs of pants and a long sleeve shirt or two upon drop off, then bring the rest down over fall break. If you wait till Thanksgiving, it will be too late.

As for slusher, she might want to look into stacking plastic drawers from Steralite or whatever it is from Target/BB&B. They'll be easier to organize and move around and put under the bed if possible.

chuy · 07-31-2007, 10:07 AM

Fun fact about slusher and pritchard: Both are going co-ed this year, apparently. I believe that this means there are only a couple single sex dorms left. Barringer and Vawter are still all guys, Johnson is still all girls, not sure about any others, since I never paid that much attention, but Slusher and Pritchard are two of the biggest dorms on campus so it's sort of a big deal. AJ (split into East and West wings), another of the largest was already co-ed. I know I'm not actually answering a question here but hey, maybe someone was wondering, haha.

shoebox10 · 07-31-2007, 10:55 AM

Pritchard is co-ed? Ugh...No girl will ever want to live there. They should've made Vawter/Barringer co-ed. And Slusher has always been co-ed, it's just the Tower that is all girls.
Main Eggleston is the other all girls dorm. West Egg is co-ed, East Egg is offices.

chuy · 07-31-2007, 10:59 AM

Yes, the first few floors will be co-ed at least. It'll be... interesting. I believe it's part of one of the housing programs but I'm not positive. I just know that when I went to apply to be an RA (decided later not to do it) they mentioned that those dorms were turning co-ed. They may have meant slusher tower was going co-ed, since they probably wouldn't have mentioned it if they were just talking about what had already been co-ed.

co-ed co-ed co-ed. There, out of my system now, I think.

Also, they can pry Barringer out of our cold, dead, masculine hands, haha.

Menehune · 07-31-2007, 08:57 PM

i actually was jus gonna ask about pritchard so it's nice to ssee ur posts. I jus got news that im staying in pritchard (im a guy) so it's nice to here it's goin coed. Not that i'll be changin my room assignment or anything but is pritchard a good residence hall or is it one of the residence halls you cringe to hear your goin into?

thanks for the help

chuy · 07-31-2007, 10:26 PM

Pritchard has been, historically, one of the bad dorms. It's 7 (I think) floors of guys, so you can imagine what the place was like. Since it's co-ed now who knows though.

edit: And don't even try to change assignments. They're over 250 already.

Zimmer07 · 08-01-2007, 04:32 PM

When do you go get your books? Is that something you order before getting to school or do you wait and get them during the first week of classes?

chuy · 08-01-2007, 04:51 PM

I already ordered mine, but all of mine are books that it was pretty obvious I was going to need. Get whatever books you can used through amazon or half.com or something, don't give the VT bookstore one penny that you don't have to. They overprice horribly there. Throughout my freshman year there was only one book that we never used (the expensive english book only available through VT bookstores that they make the english teachers require...) so I ended up needing them anyway.

I guess what I'm saying is it's up to you, but in general you WILL need math, engineering (for problem sets) and science books, and you'll probably need most other ones.

yoda1000 · 08-01-2007, 06:47 PM

Need to get cheap furniture for apt., and a tv set. Car doesn't fit much. Ideas, anyone?

chuy · 08-01-2007, 06:50 PM

craigslist once you get up there, I guess. there won't be as much stuff around but its worth a shot.

tia3 · 08-01-2007, 10:01 PM

Here's a dorm room question. How often do people tend to order carpet? Have you seen a lot of rooms that have it? Also - microwaves. There is a kitchen in Slusher. But do people usually have microwaves in rooms anyway?

morethanever · 08-01-2007, 10:20 PM

chuy,

Would you suggest getting a TI-89 Titanium/TI-89 for an engineering major? Ill be a freshman next year?

chuy · 08-01-2007, 10:51 PM

tia3: I'd get carpet. Those tile floors feel so uncomfortable in the winter, plus your room looks less like a jail cell. I'd also get a cheapo microwave, so you don't have to go down to the kitchen when you want a bag of popcorn or some easy mac.

morethanever: er... I have the regular one and I'm not sure what the titanium does that the regular doesn't. At any rate I highly doubt the things that it does would be useful to you, with the exception of more memory. If the prices are close I guess get the Titanium, but if it's a sizable difference just get the regular one. You won't be using the actual graphing functions much in class anyway.

shoebox10 · 08-02-2007, 11:25 AM

Tia3: carpets are a must. The tile floors get really cold during the winter, and plus, it's nice to have something soft. My roommate and I last year got two smaller ones to fill the room, one darker one for the entry way for muddy feet and a lighter, hawaiian themed one for the back of the room. (**Note: put a carpet or something under the chairs in the rooms. They leave black marks on the floor and they're impossible to get up and we got charged for it)
As for microwave, yes, it's nice to have one, but someone around you usually has one if you don't buy one. Atleast buy a fridge with a seperate freezer. I used my microwave about 3-4 times a week, but I would've died withouta fridge.

Morethanever: I suggest getting an 89, simply because even though you can't use them in most, if not all engineering math classes, they're nice to have in physics and to use to check your work when studying. So, yes, I suggest buying on. Like Chuy, I don't know the difference of the Titanium, but if it has more features you want or is close in price, you might as well.

olivian · 08-02-2007, 03:48 PM

My daughter has been assigned to Monteith. What do you all think? The obvious drawback is that it's far from everything. The 1st 2 floors house cadets.