Daughter with cold feet. Please help

frazzled1
Mon, 15 Oct 2007 07:53:14 +0000

Agreed that a prospective student should have a bed to sleep in - but in our experience, they often don’t! When my oldest did a sleepover at Cornell some years ago, she was told to bring a sleeping bag. My middle d hosted a number of prospective students during her first two years at Vanderbilt, including when she was in a small single. If the kid wasn’t such a space management goddess, the visitors would have had to be on the floor. As it was, she fit a futon into her floorplan, so the visitors were as comfortable as someone could be on a $90 piece of Wal-Mart furniture. As a sophomore, she’d ask her roommate to sleep in a friend’s room when she was hosting, but that wasn’t always possible. So some of her guests did indeed sleep on the floor!