<p>Thanks everyone for your helpful responses. My older two chidlren attend small LAC’s where there is no greek life so this is all new to me! I have to remember that Animal House was just a movie!! Darmoth sound like a wonderful place that anyone would be lucky to attend.</p>
<p>I’m wondering whether or not the students need their own printer? I read about the GreenPrint Public printers but it doesn’t look like every dorm has one. My daughter and I found a wireless HP printer, fax, scan, copy unit at Staples for not much more money than the ink cartridges cost! But, will she have room for a printer, and of course she’d have the expense of additional cartridges, paper, etc. What have previous students done?</p>
<p>S does not have a printer and doesn’t seem to want one.</p>
<p>Let’s see… Quick answer no, she probably does not need her own printer. Now if she wants er own printer, differnet story. She will most likely not be doing work from room all of the time and printers are all around campus. Purchased D a printer for school freshman year, came back home after graduation in the box never used.</p>
<p>I think they don’t need a printer in room.</p>
<p>Depends on the kid and their habits. I have one that is a study-guide fiend and prints and prints and prints. The other, not so much.</p>
<p>Daughter got along just fine without a printer.</p>
<p>DS has no printer and has never even mentioned getting one.</p>
<p>On the social life, whether one joins a fraternity, sorority, coed society, or not, the factor is very large. My son did not join, but it didn’t matter. He was a virtual member at a couple of places, and would have joined but for the added expense. Joining or not joining was not a big deal.
What separates Dartmouth (along with Princeton, and a few other places) among the elites is having large social venues dedicated to students from the school that are largely out of the institutional control of the college or university. The difference is dorm room parties and institutionally controlled venues versus sites capable of handling a hundred or two hundred students (Ivy League students, let’s remember) who control their own environment.
I have a pet theory that alums conflate their social experiences with their identification with their alma maters, and that is why a significantly higher percentage of Dartmouth and Princeton alums contribute to their schools as alums than do former students at Harvard and Yale, and most others. Yes, I know that Dartmouth and Princeton are undergraduate oriented while Harvard and Yale aren’t. But I don’t believe that that alone accounts for the wildly different contribution rates.</p>
<p>I have 2 Dartmouth kids and neither has a printer. Never had a problem. Didn’t want to pay for printing when Dartmouth gives it to you free. Plus, didn’t want to give space to a printer .</p>
<p>Counting down to the big drop off for college kid #2. 5 weeks until the DOC trip! Studying my maps for the most interesting way into Hanover. Thinking of avoiding I-91 and come up from NYC via Taconic Parkway to Route 7 and cut over somewhere in Vermont. Looking forward to it. Anybody know when dorm assignments come out?</p>
<p>How about the summer reading book? Has that been sent out?</p>
<p>I can’t recall the precise roads involved, Magnum, but a way to combine speed with scenic quality might be to take the Taconic up as close to the Albany region as you can, then cut over as if going to Williams and thence to the road that goes through southern VT/NH via Bennington, and then get on 89 up to Hanover. (89 is quite scenic, as is the Taconic.) I should look at a map, but I think you’ll see what I mean if you do look at one! :)</p>
<p>Thanks Consolation, will check the maps, there are several places to cross over from Route 7…we will see how it goes.</p>
<p>Hey just found out the housing assignment, Little in the Choates.</p>
<p>^^Daughter was in Choates last year. She liked it fine.</p>
<p>D just found out she’s in Rauner in the McLaughlin cluster, which she’s happy about, but she got a single, which she did not request. Anyone else have a child who had a single freshman year? Did he/she feel isolated? I think she’ll be fine as she’ll have privacy when she wants it, and she can open her door when she doesn’t. I think she was just looking forward to having a roommate to start, which can always go either way, of course!</p>
<p>Fahey-McLane dorms being converted from doubles to triples to accomodate 49 extra students admitted in the class of 2014:</p>
<p>[TheDartmouth.com</a> | Fahey-McLane dorms will convert to triples](<a href=“http://thedartmouth.com/2010/08/06/news/dorms]TheDartmouth.com”>http://thedartmouth.com/2010/08/06/news/dorms)</p>
<p>Both my kids had singles as freshmen. They LOVED it. The dorm mates/ floor mates will do tons of things together. But it is so nice to have a bit of privacy, sleep when you want to and even be able to study/read in your own room. Plus, you can bring friends, study groups to your room without worrying that you’ll find the room filled with your roommates’ friends. One thing to add to the packing list- a door stop. Keep the door open when you’re receptive to drop in visitors. The passers by WILL stop in.</p>
<p>Well son will be packed into a double with a roommate from Florida. 2 kids from the tropics. We’ll see how long they can go with shorts and sandals in Hanover. Little is supposed to be substance free, so he thought it might be Little. Now he is getting excited and wants to pack his days in here. We went up to visitor’s center at 9,000 feet on Mauna Kea tonight to gaze into the Milky Way and see billions and billions of stars, as well as Mars, Saturn and Venus. check it out here: [Visitor</a> Information Station – Mauna Kea, Hawai’i](<a href=“http://www.ifa.hawaii.edu/info/vis/]Visitor”>http://www.ifa.hawaii.edu/info/vis/) In September we will gaze into the same sky, 6 hours apart and the only difference will be the star Polaris will be higher in the horizon. Amazing.</p>