<p>If that is the case, plan to move in between 11-1, the early rush will be gone and you should be able to find a spot in front of the dorm, plus the elevators will be less crowded. Finally it is lunch time and so that lightens the load. LY they were so crowded we rode one elevator 1-4 floors, dragged our stuff up to 5 to ride it 5-8. Only fresh in special programs come in early…DS is returning scholars and he is sat. I am guessing they have decided to break up the freshmen on 2 days including scholars, gemstone and honors. Then the returning come in later, Honestly it is much smarter. LY they moved Scholars in on 1 day, floors 5-8 moved in 8-12 , 1-4 moved in 1-5. The problem was they had 1 elevator locked in the mode of only going up to 4 and the other going 5-8. Thus leaving us jumping elevators…my guesstimate is on Thursday the elevator will only stop at 2, 4,6, 8 and Friday will be 1,3,5,7.</p>
<p>TIP:</p>
<p>Go to the basement and get on there not the common area where they pick up the keys. You want to start at the lowest level possible, otherwise the doors will open and you will see a packed elevator. If you are in good shape, do the stairs…trust me it was a beaach going up 7 flights, but I took the linens and made the bed before DS and DH made it to the room!</p>
<p>Okay life stinks for us…our move in time is friday at 4… anybody iin the dc area knows that by the time we move him in and leave (6 pm), we will live in a parking lot for 3 hrs to move 5 miles…ARGGGH! Seriously what were they thinking?</p>
<p>Thank you pima for all your tips - I have wondered about the logistics of “move-in” day. </p>
<p>Is there a central office for each residence to pick up keys etc. or will there be staff set up in each building?
We will make sure to be there early and have a list of all the supplies you have suggested.
I do have a really dumb question - how do we know what floor their room is on? Her room lists a 3 digit number but I thought it might be the building number. She then has a two digit number and letter. I just want to know if we will be trucking boxes up 7 flights of stairs - I may pack lighter boxes!!!</p>
<p>Thx Pima…unfortunately DS has NROTC orientation graduation ceremony at 1300 so we can’t get there during the scheduled time. He’s going to call the ResLife office today to find out what they recommend. We will have Friday afternoon DC traffic too, so we are gonna stay overnight.</p>
<p>The keys are handed out at the building that they will be living in. It takes about 2 minutes to get them. One thing to stress to your kids that the loss of a key is very expensive, since they have to buy a new lock for their room, which means a new key for the roommate who did not lose their key.</p>
<p>Maybe it’s a planned triple, Justin…helps just a LITTLE bit! (you still get a rebate for the room credited to your account).</p>
<p>Newterpmom, you can look at the floor plans and figure out where the room is on the floor (and figure out the numbering system). Go to the reslife site, look up the dorm, then go to the bottom of the page… “traditional floor plan” drawing. Click to enlarge, then you can choose the floor # from the drop down…each room # is shown. (Get your magnifying glass!!!) This is easton’s…
[Residence</a> Halls - Denton Community - Easton Hall](<a href=“http://www.resnet.umd.edu/residence_halls/denton/easton/]Residence”>http://www.resnet.umd.edu/residence_halls/denton/easton/)</p>
<p>Thanks for the reply astrophysicsmom but I was not able to access the same information from the Leonardtown Community. I got to “click to enlarge” and instead of looking at the floor plan with the drop down for each floor, it only gave an enlarged plan of a typical appartment. There was no drop down available.</p>
<p>Queen Anne’s will be mostly sophomore Honors students (it’s a top choice for dorm choices after freshman year); in that way, it’s probably “tamer” than Denton (or Ellicott) would be… Maybe not quite as many “group” get-togethers as there would be on an all-freshman floor in a large dorm. </p>
<p>Somebodynew lived there…he’s got the real scoop!</p>
<p>Queen Anne’s was a great place to live. The rooms are spacious, you’re close to the Mall, Stamp, South Campus diner. My RA did a good job of doing programs to make everyone on the floor know each other, which is key in a small building. There are also building wide get togethers now and then. It’s coed by floor, so if you want to meet girls/guys, you have to be proactive about it and go up and down some stairs. But otherwise, the people there are friendly and willing to be social. Large get togethers/parties tend to be on the 3rd floor girls rooms (if they’re into that sort of thing) because the rooms are HUGE.</p>
<p>QA is a GREAT place to study during finals week because they have classrooms and a large multipurpose room in the basement.</p>
<p>Yeah I think there are upsides and downsides to QA. </p>
<p>There’s something to be said about missing out on all the crazy freshman antics and bonding in the high rises…but the standard of living is MUCH higher (hands down QA is the best traditional dorm on campus, or tied for the best!) and if your S/D is the type to prefer being introduced to a smaller group of people he/she could prefer it to the high rises.</p>
<p>Thank you umcp11 and somebodynew! DS is really excited to be housed there! I’m guessing from your posts that it is NOT a partying kind of dorm. Am I right? He likes to party, don’t get me wrong, but we on the other hand prefer that he keeps it to a minimum. Your thoughts?</p>
<p>My guess is that it won’t be as loud and crazy as a freshman dorm but, it being college, there will still be plenty of parties/people wanting to party (good for son, bad for mom haha).</p>
<p>On Easton: All of the freshmen high rises are identical. They are gonna be loud on the weekends/on game days but not too dirty because they are cleaned 5 days/wk you know (maybe I shouldn’t reveal this but I lived in the high rises for 2 yrs and excepting the weekends, the bathrooms were always cleaner than the one at my house! how many of you clean your own bathrooms 5 days a week? didn’t think so). But they WILL be hot and cramped and it may even be hard to sleep in the first month or 2 due to the heat (get a good fan…a really good fan). Also it’s mad far from basically any class, shoved off on a fairly ugly corner of the campus. But then so are all the freshmen dorms.</p>
<p>But it’s awesome…you’ll never get another experience like it, having hundreds of people your age, all (well, mostly) strangers, all wanting to get to know each other and make friends.</p>
<p>Justin, check out somebodynew’s post #76 RE: Easton (on previous page). There was an “incident” involving disgustingly filthy and worse-than-childish behavior that got Easton (and UMD)some national attention (um, let’s just say the cleaning staff walked out because it got so bad on one of the floors). Hence, sbn’s discussion of the past year’s improvements.</p>
<p>^actually, the Diamondback ran the story like this…</p>
<p>One floor on Easton had some bad apples that were being gross (throwing food at the walls, etc.). That RA (resident assistant) decided he had to do something about it. So he VOLUNTARILY dismissed the cleaning people and told the residents to clean the floor themselves. NOBODY cleaned, of course, and the one half of one floor on Easton got TRASHED in a matter of days. Because it started to become so disgusting it was a health hazard, the RA eventually told the cleaning people to come back and the poor cleaning people had to clean a week’s (well, I dunno exactly how long it lasted but too long for the resident’s who weren’t at fault…) worth of accumulated filth. </p>
<p>So really it was a combination of a few stupid students and one stupid RA…</p>
<p>Now, I think that is the story you are referring to…the cleaning people never went on strike…</p>
<p>Having had friends that lived in Easton (well, girl’s half of the floors, but still) the past 2 yrs when it had a bad rep, I would say yeah, there was a lot of partying going on on the weekend since it was a non-honors freshman dorm…there was a lot of weed…but it terms of cleanliness it was never disgusting when the cleaning people were allowed to do their jobs (and they always did). I think Easton was a lot of hype and it’s really no different than the other freshman dorms.</p>
<p>Thanks everyone for the inside scoops about Easton. I’m a bit more excited than I was before. At least I know what the atmosphere will be like. </p>
<p>Oh and where is a good library to go to that’s near Easton? I know the rec center and the diner are close so those are covered. But I was wondering about the library…
My friend told me theres a performing arts library near Easton? Would I be ok going there?</p>
(maybe I shouldn’t reveal this but I lived in the high rises for 2 yrs and excepting the weekends, the bathrooms were always cleaner than the one at my house! how many of you clean your own bathrooms 5 days a week? didn’t think so). But they WILL be hot and cramped and it may even be hard to sleep in the first month or 2 due to the heat (get a good fan…a really good fan). Also it’s mad far from basically any class, shoved off on a fairly ugly corner of the campus. But then so are all the freshmen dorms.</p>