<p>Rapunzle,</p>
<p>I was unaware of the ability to be in the honors college after 1 semester. I personally wouldn’t have switched because the honors college requires you to take honors-specific sections for lots of your classes, and there are no “honors” classes in the SPTE major that I’m in, so I would probably have to take some unnecessary honors classes. I think it does sound like a good idea though for other students and if I was in a different major I probably would have done it had I known! </p>
<p>I loved living in capstone it was an absolute blast so congrats you’ll love it! In my room, we had a big mini fridge that we shared—absolutely a necessity. It made life so much easier/convenient having the ability to have groceries in your room/cold water/cold soda etc. We stacked our dressers on top of each other and put the TV on top of it…it was the perfect TV stand and a great height cause we raised our beds to about 4 feet up so we could put plastic storage drawers underneath them. I didn’t personally have a futon because we didn’t want to loft our beds, but I know some boys that did…it isn’t too necessary cause the rooms are rather large and we had beanbag chairs/a rug that was really soft to lay/sit on with tons of floor pillows. I would definitely say bring a mattress pad and feather bed (I put my feather thing and foam egg-crate underneath the mattress pad and it held everything on nicely). The mattresses are those plastic things and they need more to be comfortable in my opinion. They were Xlong beds and we did have curtains. You cannot drill into the wall but we had a magnetic rod that held them up—worked great (bed bath and beyond had it I believe). </p>
<p>I decided to rush and went with the sorority that felt most comfortable to me. I’m very laid back so I felt very at home in my current house—lots of the girls were very similar. As a freshman first semester you’re not allowed to eat at the house except Mondays before chapter meetings. Then second semester they take you off of the university meal plan and you have to have the sorority meal plan from then on. Lunch/dinner at the house is so much fun and there is always lots to talk about! Second semester freshman year I kept a 5 meal plan with the university just incase I couldn’t make it to a meal so I could eat in Capstone. There is (or will be) a rush guide online that tells you what you need to have to wear for each day, and I brought some of my highschool dresses when I moved down so I could have things to wear to semi formal/formal etc. </p>
<p>Hope that answers your questions as much as possible!</p>