<p>While on a campus tour at Flagship State U. where DD is headed one of the OLD dorms (since renovated) was built for the football team (as triples) era 1930’s or so. The rooms were monstrous huge for 2 people… Unfortunately one has to be in a certain college (Nursing) to live there otherwise it was a no brainer (they’re across the College of Nursing). </p>
<p>From my own experience at Directional State U the old dorms were vastly larger than the pet carrier sized new dorms… </p>
<p>But then, ‘luxury’ dorms like the new one at Purdue are not selling very well ($16k a year single, brrr).</p>
<p>thank you for this post. You are 100% correct and I have to simmer down and stay positive. My son will be fine and will do what he has to do to make it work. He is very tuned in to how I feel and what I think and my attitude toward the situation could really sway things one way or another. I really appreciate all the feedback I’ve gotten here (except for one ridiculous post, lol)</p>
<p>Yes, I agree with the others. Take it in stride and treat it as an adventure. I positively could not tolerate such an arrangement now, but at 18 it’s very doable. Some of the most valuable life lessons from my youth were learning what things I never wanted to do again lol. This included summer jobs that were mind-numbingly boring (all the more incentive to do well in college) and learning I didn’t like living in a small room with a stranger. Makes you appreciate it more when you move on to something better.</p>
<p>(But I don’t blame you for being anxious and annoyed.)</p>
<p>You can always pick up a set of those plastic drawers from target or something for about 20 bucks. He should be able to fit some clothes in there and they don’t take up too much space. Do college boys put their clothes away anyway??? :)</p>
Sounds exactly like my son’s situation last year: forced triple and every room in an all male dorm contained tripled freshmen. They loved it. Considered it like a fraternity house (on a campus with no residential fraternities) and they had many winning intramural athletic teams. He did luck out in that one roommate went home a lot and also spent most time elsewhere studying. And we lucked out with a $1050 discount each semester.</p>
<p>Though there is some truth to this, I’ve been astounded by how much stuff undergrads of both genders…especially those at more mainstream colleges like Columbia, NYU, NEU, BU, BC, Tufts, and Harvard brought each year. </p>
<p>Then again, part of that was a combination of the fact I had to manage move-ins/outs myself due to distance, having lots of stuff was considered “too bourgeois” at my LAC’s campus in the '90s, and I didn’t have much stuff to begin with due to financial circumstances back then. </p>
<p>Still, learned a lot about how to pack and travel light which benefited me on a recent week-long trip to the Pacific NW for a friend’s wedding. He was stunned that I only packed one totecase which was small enough to qualify as a carry-on and nothing else.<br>
He said he expected me to bring at least two pieces of luggage considering I’d be staying for a week and packing a suit for the wedding. Was happy to not have to deal with baggage claim and the hassles of keeping track of more than one small totecase worth of stuff.</p>
<p>In 1976 when I went to college, my best friend was in a triple because she sent her paperwork in late. I felt so sorry for her. She loved it. I had sent my paperwork in early, got my dorm of choice (the newest ones that had AC), and got assigned a real dud for a roommate. SHE was a senior who couldn’t talk anyone else into rooming with her.</p>
<p>My S got assigned to his dorm of choice, belatedly, over the summer. The email lists 4 room-mates, not 3 as we expected. Now we don’t know if they put 5 in a suite for 4, or what. We joked that he’d be sleeping on the sofa in the lounge! </p>