<p>Temp housing is more annoying than anything else, but it is definitely temporary. In time she’ll be placed into a permanent house, the lurch is that her permanent house may or may not be Morrow and she may have already made friends in Morrow, but first-year is still early enough to make plenty of new friends in her permanent house as well (she’ll automatically have out-of-house friendships, which can be nice). </p>
<p>There’s a lot of anecdotal evidence for why we’re having housing shortages at Smith, the answer I’ve found most plausible is that with the recession, more juniors are choosing not to go abroad, or to go for less time. Might also just be that we’re quite popular with the applicants these days and more students than expected accept their admissions offers. </p>
<p>Anyway, just hang in there, it’ll sort itself out.</p>