<p>Hi Paladindave,</p>
<p>Once you get the room and your roommates, how you configure out the living space is entirely up to you. I do suggest contacting your roommates before arriving see who is arriving when (as those on the late DOC may be moving in before you arrive on move in day.</p>
<p>We live in NYC and roommate was from Ma. So they were both moving in on move in day. Before moving in they had blitzed each other, had a few IM chats and some live phone calls. They found that they had a lot in common (she really hit the jackpot in the roommate department because roommate is just amazing and they did become good friends) . We arrived first and D decided to wait for her roommate before staking out space. They were also able to contact (via Facebook) a person who lived in their dorm last year. What she told them they did was move all of the desk into the common area and used it as a study area. They also kept the refrigerator(s) the common room in order to free up space in the actual bedroom.</p>
<p>Once they both arrived on move in day, they decided to move the desks in the common area. This immediately freed up space in the bedroom. (Furniture for each student consists of bed, night table, desk, wardrobe). They moved each bed against its respective wall, opening up the floor space to walk. They sat the 2 night tables side by side in between the 2 beds. They raised the mattresses (from the beds I saw you do not have to purchase risers from the outside) to create storage space under the bed for their luggage etc. Everything worked out well for them.</p>
<p>In the 2nd bedroom in their suite roommate #1 moved in during the DOC trip. So when roommate #2 arrived move in day roommate #1 had all of her stuff set up (printer and the works) and was not amenable to moving her desk into the common room. The situation did create a power play between the 2 of them and not be outdone, roommate # 2 also wanted to keep her desk in the bedroom which really made the space tight. What ended up happening was roommate #2 kept the desk in the room, raised her mattress to the top position, but the mattress on the floor and slept under the bed. On the top spring, she sat her night table and miscellaneous stuff. The tone had been set and the roommates really are not close.</p>
<p>Ds friend lives in the River dorm in Hinman (see floor configuration)</p>
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<p>They ended up in a 2 room double where one room is 9.8 x 11.4 and the other room was 9.8 x 6.5. The roommate moved in during the DOC and took the bigger room instead of trying to work something out when other roommate arrives. Needless to say the relationship started out on a win-lose footing and the roommates merely spent the whole year just co-existing with each other.</p>
<p>My suggestion would be when you find out your room/roommate situation look up your room configuration and talk to your roommmate.</p>
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