<p>does rice (jones) have any limitations on the size of the mini fridge you can have in your room? I know my brother was limited to 4 cu ft at a&m dorms last yr.
also, whats the deal with the phone jack? should I bother bringing a phone for my dorm, and will I have a land line phone # there?</p>
<p>I think there is a size limit but no one checks so it really doesn’t matter. It just depends on how much space you have in your room and how you fix it up. </p>
<p>Some people have phones but most people are fine with just cell phones. Every room has its own number.</p>
<p>The land line can only call 713 and 281 numbers, so dont bother.</p>
<p>The size limitation is 3 cu ft. Try to keep it within that. With more and more tripped breakers they are starting to get serious</p>
<p>Antarius is right. You are allowed one 3.6 cubic foot or smaller refrigerator in your room. </p>
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<p>My son got one that’s 33" high. It takes up the same floor area as the smaller cube types but it has a small freezer compartment,too. It’s a Sanyo 3.7 cu. ft. model, sold on costco.com.</p>
<p>He brought a landline phone in freshman year but never used it. Unfortunately, Rice still charges a telecommunications fee of $48/year, whether you use the phone line or not.</p>
<p>patsmom - we are working (as a member of the H&D team) to estimate real usage of this service and either make it optional or discontinue it entirely</p>
<p>When my s and his roomies moved back onto campus after getting jacked off for soph yr, they brought their fullsize fridge with them, and kept it in their suite for their jr and sr yrs! I think they used it in a house one was staying in over the summer between jr/sr year, but they somehow managed to have it in their suite for their last 2 yrs and no one bothered them about it. I didnt ask…</p>
<p>Ditto about the phone line. DS brought a landline his fresh yr. Didnt use it, and they managed to lose the handheld extension for it (not sure how that happened-- the room wasnt very big…) Glad to hear they are revisiting the telecomm fee. I think he might… <em>might</em> have faxed something to/from the room once with his printer/fax, but come to think of it, it probably had a scanner too, and he’d have probably scanned it and sent it as an email attachment.</p>
<p>Antarius, that’s great to hear. I’ll bet not even 10% of the rooms use the landlines. In the days before cellphones were so predominant, it would have been great to have a phone line but I don’t see any reason for it nowadays.</p>
<p>By the way, just to give you kids some idea of what dorms were like in the olden days, we used to have a pay phone booth at the end of the hall on each floor to make and receive calls. We used to stand in line for it on Sundays, which was the usual time we used to call home (rates were cheapest then). In my senior year (1971) they finally started installing phone lines in the individual rooms, but only if you paid extra to have one. :)</p>
<p>patsmom - yeah. thats why we instigated a review into usage. especially since no one can call people like me on my cell (have a Boston number) you cant really call half of Rice.</p>
<p>jym -
while it is possible to have such a fridge (and a microwave) in your room, meaning that no one checks, too many such fridges are not recommended. especially in older dorms, the breakers arent designed for such high loads.</p>
<p>so its advised to keep the fridges smaller. a microwave if you need one (even though it technically isnt allowed). avoid stuff like toasters etc. because thats how fires start</p>