<p>I keep hearing that you’re not supposed to put holes in the walls for hanging things, but I’ve looked all over the housing website and can’t find anyplace that says specifically their policy that you can’t nail into the walls.
I’m planning on bringing curtains for my room–would it be a big deal if I drilled a couple of holes in the wall to hang the curtain rod and then filled them up again at the end of the year?</p>
<p>Well curtains are against the fire code, i’m almost positive. And the walls are a lovely cinderblock so you can’t drill into them like you could a normal wall. I think you would have to have a special bit? Concrete hangers would work to hang stuff, but that doesn’t really help the curtain situation…</p>
<p>Yes, curtains are no-nos when the fire marshalls are around (and okay everytime else). I put nails and such into my walls every year and they don’t care. I know people who use thumbtacks to keep lightweight curtains up in my dorm. Or you could try some of those easy-to-remove command 3m hooks.</p>
<p>Use the 3M hooks, just wait until after the fire marshall has come. </p>
<p>Also, everyone moving into first year dorms, here here early tomorrow.</p>
<p>Does the bookstore sell programs like MathCAD? I also need to buy a few more textbooks tomorrow, and I’m thinking about getting there early. But is it possible that the bookstore has run out of some textbooks if I didn’t previously order them online?</p>
<p>I don’t know if they sell it but it’s available for free on many lab computers: [UVa</a> Labs with ITC-Supported Software](<a href=“ITSWeb Home - UVA ITS”>ITSWeb Home - UVA ITS)</p>
<p>ITC sells a lot of software. And don’t forget about the $10 Word 2007 with student ID at the bookstore.</p>
<p>I don’t think they’d run out, and they would order more for you if they had. But move in day isn’t until tomorrow! So it’s highly unlikely your books are gone already. I’ve had classes where I waited to buy the book and it sold out, but the bookstore ordered more and the professor knew only half of us had books so it didn’t matter.</p>
<p>When you move into your dorm, do an inventory check to make sure nothing’s broken or missing.</p>
<p>The work order crew are amazingly fast. You can file a work order early in the morning and they pop by 2 hours or even 1 hour later to fix whatever’s broken in your room. I just changed a faulty lock this morning.</p>
<p>You also should make friends with your maintenance staff - you’ll see a lot of them (…yeah) and if they like you and you’re pleasant they’ll come to your room first on their list. They’re also cool people in general anyways.</p>
<p>This thread is making me so excited to go to college…i hope i get that “Congratulations!” letter and join you guys next year!</p>
<p>Which dorms are the old dorms and which are the new? As in the names of the dorms? Thanks!</p>
<p>From virginia.edu/housing (great resource - it has pics, etc):
New: The Houses of Alderman Road include: Cauthen, Courtenay, Dunnington, Dunglison, Fitzhugh, Kellogg, Lile, Maupin, Tuttle, Webb, and Woody.
Old: The Houses of McCormick Road include: Bonnycastle, Dabney, Echols, Emmet, Hancock, Humphreys, Kent, Lefevre, Metcalf, and Page.</p>
<p>Question for current/past students:</p>
<p>Which is the best dorms overall (for freshmen)?</p>
<p>As I understand, freshmen have to rank their preferences for dorms, so I’m trying to see what I should rank.</p>
<p>Also, does anyone know if I can visit campus and actually see some of the dorms before sending in my housing app? (I live like 3 hours away 
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<p>thnx for the help!</p>
<p>It’s not a matter of “best dorms” because your only ranking options are residential college or First Year Housing. So it’s really “do you want to fill out an application for a residential college or do you want the typical first year housing?”</p>
<p>You can come take a tour any time, or stay overnight through the Monroe Society if they still exist. Just remember that there are multiple first year housing dorms (old dorms, new dorms, etc) and you can’t rank your preference within those. You might be just as well visiting virginia.edu/housing and looking at the pictures, but really unless you KNOW you want a residential college experience then just put First Year Housing first and they’ll likely put you there.</p>
<p>Thanks for the info about the dorms.</p>
<p>I have another, totally unrelated, question as well:</p>
<p>How is cell reception at campus? Last time I was there my ATT 3G didn’t work throughout all of campus. Tmobile and Sprint reception would be particularly helpful. </p>
<p>thanks.</p>
<p>AT&T 3G works now 
I haven’t had any trouble with it except like in some of the buildings reception can be bad, but that’s probably with anything. And Monroe society does still exist so if you want to stay overnight in a first year dorm you can contact them (of course it’s really busy now, but you still can)</p>
<p>if you want to look at the inside of some dorms rather than just see the buildings, i know that during days on the lawn people from the first year dorms will be showing their rooms to prospective students</p>
<p>Ah, thanks. I’m planning on attending the one next week.</p>
<p>You can also come see a Brown College room in person then too!!!</p>
<p>For incoming first year students like myself, I’d encourage everyone to check out and join [College</a> Roommate Finder | URoomSurf](<a href=“http://www.uroomsurf.com%5DCollege”>http://www.uroomsurf.com) – great way to potentially find a roommate beforehand and/or just get to know some people.</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.uroomsurf.com%5B/url%5D”>www.uroomsurf.com</a></p>
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<p>I have the same question as well for Verizon. When I visited a year ago my phone said that it was on a different network, so the rates for calling and texting were higher. Does UVA support Verizon?</p>