If you know your VM #, that stays with the room… so if you look at last year’s facebook, scan for your VM # you can find what room you have this year based on who had that VM# last year.
Drury if a fine dorm but each has different benefits and personalities.<br>
I have Never heard of a new student being given an existing student as a roommate
Advisors are assigned to dorms, but they move around, so chances are you will change advisors (My son will have his 4th different one this year).<br>
The housing system after your first year is a real art and science, but much better than when I was there! (we found out the day you showed up and you were given no choices. Sort of a Harry Potter Sorting Hat). </p>
<p>If you have Q’s about your dorm or advisor ask or PM people here, BUT realize everyone has wildly different views on what dorm, location or type of room they like. So every year different students request every dorm. The school tries to match people up but there are always some that are unhappy the first year. Just be positive and go with it. Things will work out! It’s a Great Adventure. Enjoy it.</p>
<p>I was on campus today. Had lunch in the Upper. Saw the building they are moving (amazing!) and it really will be nice (see the photos). Opens new views and lots more lawn. ASP is in full swing and occupying half the dorms with the other half getting spruced up and ready for the fall.</p>
<p>Sarum - Mr. Colbert is known to be a great guy. Very well liked by the students. He coaches lacrosse. Drury is nicknamed Dreary. Not the best aesthetically but its all about the mix of kids in the house more than the looks that make a dorm successful.</p>
<p>Really? When I visited all the buildings looked the same, but I was amazed by the place in general so I probably didn’t look very close. The rooms in every dorm are pretty much the same size right?</p>
<p>Sarum: I PMed you. Know one of the prefects there quite well (not my son) he and your son share Colbert as an advisor. A prefect from the dorm should call each student before school starts to answer questions and give them one more contact before they start.</p>
<p>MPIZ The rooms vary. Generally, existing students tend to get the nicer rooms, but not always. Tenure has it’s advantages. Personalities, common rooms and convenience to different parts of campus all vary. Luckily people want different things so no dorms are disliked universally.</p>
<p>1v1: You need a printed version of last year’s book. For new students it would be meanlingless to know who lived in the room last year, but for returning students they can determine their actual room. All of this is ‘gaming’ the official notifications of roommates and rooms. But why not.
The house moving is on the ‘News and Events’ tab (here: <a href=“https://www.sps.edu/podium/default.aspx?t=6183[/url]”>https://www.sps.edu/podium/default.aspx?t=6183</a>). It is a 440 ton brick house built in 1895. Moving it allows room for the new science center to be built. But for now it opens up some new space.</p>
<p>emdee - your advisor does not necessarily change every year, if you stay in the same dorm and your advisor does not move dorms than you can request to have them for another year. In addition, if a loved advisor switches to another dorm sometimes students will switch dorms with their advisor so that they can stay with them. However honestly I don’t really think it really matters who your advisor is because if you like a faculty member you will still visit them and talk to them often even if they are not your advisor.</p>
<p>On a side note, I’ve never heard Drury be called Dreary, but maybe that’s just me. Also that dorm seems like it’s going to be totally different from how it was last year because a lot of different types of people are moving into it.</p>
<p>-drury, okay dorm not the greastest but at this point your son won’t know any different so I wouldn’t worry about it. All of the dorms are certaiy reasonable. Mr. Colbert really a fantastic guy, as posted above he is the lax coach so I know him quite well. He’s young and his wife is a great cook so I’m sure your adviser dinners will be a ball.</p>
<p>Generally (almost always) returners will get better rooms than newbs but almost everybody is okay with this.( certanly is the natural order of things.) I would be pretty upset if a
newb got a better room then me. The rooms actually can very tremendously once you get outside of third form year</p>
<p>this might be just me, but how exactly do you join the sps network on facebook now that we have our emails? I’m having some issues haha. are other people joining the network now or waiting? I know its not a big deal…</p>
<p>You can’t join the sps network until you have access to your email and you learn how to do it when school starts, so you just have to wait. But for now you can just put SPS class of '13 or whatever on your schools so that when people use the classmate finder you show up</p>
<p>Not except in triples. There are always some rooms they can free up. It will be fine, but I am sure not as much flexibility as they would like to have. Hakuna matata.</p>
<p>Middle House is considered desirable. Good location - near chapel and classroom buildings. Seems like it will have a really great group of girls there this year. Knowing a couple of the prefects, they are fun, outgoing students and good role models.</p>
<p>Guys are you sure returners can see their advisor and vm? I just went to the
parents portal facebook and it’s not giving me any of that info. Ideas?</p>