<p>The oldest dorms used to be Newing and Dickison which were traditional “corridor” style – a long hallway with double rooms sharing a communal bathroom – that’s probably what most people used to think of as “corridor style”. the old Newing has now been replaced by the new Newing which is modified corridor style – 3 double rooms sharing bathrooms as well as a communal bathroom on the floor.
CIW – the hallways go around in a square – double rooms along the outer side of the square, suites in the corners, bathroom in the middle.
In Mountainview, the suites and triples both open onto the hallways. It is different than the traditional corridor style in the sense that everyone’s rooms aren’t open on to the hallway. The suites open onto the hallway, but the individual bedrooms are inside the suite. The triples open directly onto the hallway. So it isn’t as “social” as a traditional hallway where you are walking by everyone’s “bedrooms.”
A designed triple is one big room intended for 3 people to live in – enough room for 3 complete sets of furniture. There can also be “temporay” triples which is when 3 people are assigned to a room that was intended to hold 2 people – this occurs when there are more entering students than there is room for. How “temporary” this is depends on just how crowded things are – sometimes they are detripled fairly quickly, sometimes not at all. (There are usually some students who end up not coming back to school or who leave early in the year which allows for some detripling.)</p>