<p>this is a great thread. bump.</p>
<p>if freshman year you know someone coming into columbia and want to room with them, can you request them as a roommate? also ā and this is coming from someone who is very shy ā how much would you say john jay or carman bring out oneās inner socialite?</p>
<p>you can put in a request to Housing to have them as a roommate, yes. But I would advise you to not do so - might as well have a second social network to tap into rather than just overlapping. Plus when you live in the same room you might start squabbling over petty stuff and you wouldnāt want it to hurt your friendship.</p>
<p>But if youāre quite confident that you two are totally compatible to live together, I can see the argument for eliminating the uncertainty of maybe getting a crazy roommate. So it wouldnāt be a terrible move.</p>
<p>Help! I still canāt decide if I want a single or doubleā¦</p>
<p>Ehh, donāt worry about the housing selection yet.
We have until May, I think - itās at least a few months awayā¦and you might not even get placed in the building of your choice. I really donāt feel itās worth the stress - especially if youāre unsure. </p>
<p>Iām right there with you - but being unsure about singles or doubles really just means we could find positive and negative attributes about JJ or Carman. No worries. :)</p>
<p>if iām not mistaken, you donāt have to declare your housing preferences until after Days On Campus, the weekend for admitted students to come and hang out and see whatās up. If you can go to that, you can get a chance to see how people are living and what they think of their living situation. That would give you a good perspective.</p>
<p>This thread, I think, also goes pretty well into the debate between single and double, or at least Carman vs JJ. Thereās no wrong answer.</p>
<p>How many people typically share a bathroom in JJ?</p>
<p>the bathrooms in JJ, at least the menās rooms, have 3 urinals, 3 (?) stalls, and a few showers (2-4, i forget how many, havenāt used them), per floor. There are corresponding womenās rooms. And on a floor there are about 45 people.</p>
<p>4 showers in JJ</p>
<p>So thatās like 20-25 people who share a bathroom? (Unless the floors either arenāt coed or not evenly inhabited by men and women.)</p>
<p>All JJ floors are coed and any imbalance in the gender distribution is typically negligible. You would think that 20-25 people sharing a bathroom would be a problem but it works out surprisingly well since everyone is on a completely different schedule.</p>
<p>does carman have carpet flooring</p>
<p>(carpet = highly questionable)</p>
<p>^no carpetting.</p>
<p>Is there any benefits from joining the Gateway Residential Initiative?
Does it make much of a difference?</p>
<p>this is a great thread.</p>
<p>Iām a current Carman residentā¦ fire off questions as you wish and Iāll try and answer them</p>
<p>This is what I put on my housing application:</p>
<p>Preference 1: Carman Double
Preference 2: Furnald Single
Preference 3: Furnald Double
Preference 4: Hartley Single
Preference 5: Hartley Double
Preference 6: John Jay Single
Preference 7: John Jay Double
Preference 8: Wallach Single</p>
<p>Why Furnald?</p>
<p>Can a current student comment on the relevance of this thread? Is everything still pretty much accurate?</p>
<p>obviously most is and some isnāt, no-oneās going to sit here are read thru this, just ask specific questions after you read it through.</p>