<p>Is it true that the earlier you request your roommate, the greater the chance you’ll get your request granted? (whether a non honors person wants to room with a scholars person, a honors wants to room with honors etc.)</p>
<p>An honor with an honor, it is supposedly true. A non honors/gemstone/scholar with an honor/gemstone/scholar, supposedly it goes to the bottom of the pile to see if there is room to honor your request.</p>
<p>Think about it as a jigsaw puzzle, no requests, you are the border and it is easier to fit, b/c there are less demands Honors with another honor…easy as pie! The next would be honors/gemstone/scholars(girl/guy, non-smoking/smoking, late night/early riser), now you are requesting to be roomed with a non-program student, which means they have to fill everyone else and then if there is room they will place you with them. Also add into the fact that UMD has a housing shortage issue.</p>
<p>I have said this before and I mean it in a very loving way, but it is a mistake to request a roommate, esp. if you are in honors/gemstone or scholars and they are not. You will be hanging with the program students, not only in class, but also during seminar. Your roommate will not. Not only will they not be in classes with them, they will be the odd man out in the dorm. There are weekly seminars, it will suck for them on Monday night when the whole floor is at the seminar and they are twiddling their thumbs waiting to hang with somebody. These seminars also have term papers, projects and internships, the gen admission doesn’t, which means you will be in different worlds.</p>
<p>Finally from my OPE, best friends can become dreaded enemies when you live in a 10 X12 room. Quirks become a festering sore, and after a yr many of these friends are no longer friends due to this fact. It is easier to rant at a roommate when you have been thrown together, than someone who was suppose to be your BFF from HS.</p>
<p>Our DS next yr will be living with his best friend from this yr, but there are 6 of them (new leonardtown 4 bdrm) and they were smart enough to split into other bedrooms. </p>
<p>Think of it this way, people will tell you the hardest yr of marriage is the 1st yr. WHY? Because both of you have your own idiocyncrisies, those quirks 24/7 can become nails on a chalkboard, and with everyday that noise becomes louder and more annoying. Where will you go to b*tch about your roommate when your roommate is your BF?</p>
<p>I have also seen with DS this yr, that by the end of the yr, others in the dorm refused to hang in his room. WHY? because the roommate offended people, you might think your BFF is great, but what happens when nobody else does? You will pay the piper, you will be put into their pile and not seen as an individual! They know from day one that this is your friend, thus you will be seen as frick and frack, you have to take both, you can’t offend frick without offending frack! Easiest solution don’t invite frick because of frack! What happens then? You get angry because somebody had enough guts to say we don’t like your roommate so we didn’t invite you! You won’t be angry at them, but you will resent your roommate that you wanted to live with and it will fester. How will you feel when you find out that all of “your friends” left together for the Bball game, but didn’t stop by your room because of them? How about the fact that this group eats dinner together and you walk in the dining hall and realize they didn’t invite you.</p>
<p>DS’s roomie would take every conversation into a political debate and nobody wanted to live with that. His roomie got ticked because he told everybody he was putting his name in for certain dorms and only those dorms, but got upset with everybody on the floor for not asking him to go into the lottery. Had they been best buds it would have hurt their friendship, instead they were roommates that liked each other, but had different social circles so there were no fights between them, except roomie did say he was disappointed that DS didn’t want to re-room again. Luckily DS had a rationale out, by saying you wanted these dorms and I didn’t, thatis why I went with other people.</p>
<p>You may chose to believe this doesn’t happen, but I would bet our DS’s college tuition it is common and not the rarity. I am speaking from my college experience, Bullet’s experience and now DS’s.</p>
<p>Be very very careful in choosing this route. It might be great, but it also can be the death of a friendship.</p>
<p>This doesn’t exactly fit the thread, but I didn’t see the point in making another one for this question:
When/how do you request to have your bed lofted?</p>
<p>It is in your housing info. I think it is 100 a yr</p>
<p>Is it true that if you dont get your request with an honors or scholars person, you will be placed in Easton in a triple or quad?</p>
<p>I have never heard that, but typically Easton is for non-honors/scholars student</p>
<p>o i probably wasnt clear…
if a non honors/scholars person request to be roomates with a scholars/honors person and it doesnt get through will the non honors/non scholars person be placed in a triple or quad at easton?</p>
<p>That I would believe, because they are filling all of the dorms simultaneously. Thus, you put in your first option knowing that it is a low chance of occurring since you are non-honors and willing to take that chance. Meanwhile they will be filling up the other dorms with people that asked to be in those dorms. In the end, you will get whatever is left over. If that means they have overbooked the dorms and now have to make a twin into a triple, than that is what will occur. It might not happen, you might get in the honors dorm, or into a double, but that is why they stress to get your dorm request in early</p>
<p>so how is denton hall overall ?? are the rooms a little more spacey then most underclass residence halls or are they all the same… i went to the open house a couple months ago and i forgot which hall we toured but the rooms were so tiny so i was hoping the honors housing might be a little bigger…</p>
<p>Thank you for all the information. It has been most helpful for those of us new to the university.</p>
<p>My daughter will be a freshman this fall and will be living in New Leonardtown. We would like to ship some items down so they will be there when we arrive - does anyone know the mailing address of the New Leonardtown residences?</p>
<p>You have to wait until she gets her post office box. Even though new leonardtown is apt style, you are not shipping to the apt, but the post office box like the typical dorm. I believe ds has his already, but he is a returning soph. I am surprised she got into new leonardtown since they are more desirable than dorms like Easton, Denton or Cambridge and are filled with people who are returning. I.E. our ds as a freshman did not have a high enough points to get in there, but his 2 other roommates were sophs and high enough to get in. Even then they had to go into a 6 person dorm not the 4. Your box does not match the dorm room number. His room number ended in 23, his box number ended in 119 when he lived in Centreville</p>
<p>How is it confirmed that she’s living in new Leonardtown? I thought our housing wasn’t up until August.</p>
<p>bullet-I’m guessing she requested it, unless she knows something I don’t.</p>
<p>Thanks very much, pima. I was not sure how it worked. We actually found out where my daughter was staying on the web some time ago - we think there must have been a glitch in the system because it was up one day and then down the next.</p>
<p>But we found if you go to Residence Life homepage and click on HOT TOPICS - scroll down to Room Selection 2009 and log in through that link. The assignment is listed there.</p>
<p>I just checked that to see if it was still working, mine has my information, but under address and housing type it’s blank, and the address says “Spring Campus Address” so that’s still from the last school year because I know I’m guaranteed housing.
It sounds like a glitch, but your daughter’s lucky if it isn’t.</p>
<p>Yes, if we logged in under “check housing status” the room was blank, like you said.</p>
<p>But if we went through “Hot Topics” and Room Selection 2009 we got a different log-in screen and that is where she saw her room number and what I assume is a building number.</p>
<p>Her roommates names are also listed here.</p>
<p>That’s really weird…using that I would be able to pick my dorm room…didn’t know freshmen could do that. Oh well I’m just going to wait and see what I was assigned…</p>
<p>I take it she is not honors/gemstone/scholars. I wonder if her room has sophs and jrs that UMD did not fill it. It is strange that she got New Leonardtown and not Old Leonardtown. DO not worry, other freshman will be jealous because the rooms are bigger, it is apt style, full kitchen, living room and dining room, it has 2 ba for 4-6 people instead of a whole wing. Also when it is Rush they will use her room to crash because it is behind the frats! </p>
<p>Your problem will be figuring out the meal plan. You can buy the full up, but why should you since the dorm is not close the halls and you have a full kitchen including a stove? We opted not to do the dining plan, but give him Terp Bucks to use when he is between classes for lunch. I also have the intention to go after my business meetings from my office every other week with a new supply of Hot Pockets and Frozen Chicken like (buffalo wings, nuggets, etc) since from my office I am only 25 miles away (56 from the house).</p>
<p>I know DS knows his actual room, but he will be a soph. When he was freshmen he knew his roommate (early Aug via email), but did not know his room number until he arrived that day.</p>
<p>New Terp just have her get in contact with her roomies, because the issue of who is bringing a sm fridge and fans are moot, but who is bringing the microwave, coffee maker, blender and dishes are now an issue. It is also an issue of remembering to buy Costco size packages of paper towels, dish detergent and TOILET PAPER! She will be in a 3 or 4 bdrm apt woth 3 or 5 other room mates.</p>
<p>I have a DS, when he got his assignment back in Mar/Apr I told him to tell his roommates I will buy the microwave from Craigslist because I never want it back in my house (unless one of them have a serious gf, because she will clean it out of disgust ;))
He has officially stated that he is taking my summer dishes (outdoor reusable plastic that I got at Target) because you can nuke them with no danger. He is also taking my jug of mismatched silverware, my spare blender, spare coffee maker one of my cookie sheets, one of my 9 X13 pans, and whatever else he can rummage up!. IN other words he is charged of raiding my house and furnishing their kitchen! He is also taking his surround system, his Xbox and the sm futon from our bsmt. This was all stated 3 mos ago. Thank G*D we have a Denali (Suburban) I can guarantee you this year it will not only be totally filled with his normal crap, but now we will have to add the carrier placed off the tow hitch and the roof top! Actually our intention is to have him drive up by himself with the mins so he can go to the football game and not fight the crowds, and we will show up the next morning and bring up the bulk and drive his car back home.</p>
<p>You are lucky she is a girl, I can’t imagime how many hrs our boy and his roomies will have to spend cleaning the kitchen and bathroom. He had 3 giant black garbage bags that he carried out to clear his 10 X 12 dorm in Centreville!
I literally walked in his room to bring him home for spring break and never looked down on the floor out of fear :eek:</p>
<p>TIP: your goodie boxes should always contain one of these:
- Paper towels
- Toilet paper
- Sponges
- Dish detergent
- Paper plates, cups, etc
- Windex…because that cleans everything :)</p>
<p>@new terp-I did go in through hot topics. But it makes sense that she got the names because the other roommates would have gotten her name already.</p>
<p>I just looked for DS, shows his room (apt number for New Leonardtown) and his roommates (no surpise there because they requested it). NO mailbox number though! :(</p>