Very trivial question

wish_it_was_april
Sat, 06 May 2006 12:12:59 +0000

My S was not too happy to learn his RM (who by the way left school, giving up a merit scholarship, after the first term because his grades were so bad) was bringing a TV. He would have prefered to talk to the RM first about whether they jointly wanted a TV in the room.

He was afraid it would be on all the time and be too distracting. You might consider waiting til you are told who your RM is and then jointly decide what to make room for - a fridge, a microwave, a TV, a music system, etc. And then see who is bringing what or if it makes sense to shop together during orientation. There are many options and you’ll need to hopefully agree or agree to compromise.

In the end, TV was not on much as RM pledged a frat and spend almost no time in the room at all. And S inherited all the appliances they jointly bought when the kid never returned after winter break. Many kids (dorms friends from before the kid pledged) tried to explain to him that partying, pledging and frats are fine but there must be room in his life for classes and classwork too, but no one got through to him. Last we heard he was living at home again, working part-time and attending at CC. He took his TV home with him.

Now I realize that lots of very successful UM kids bring TVs. The point of this post is really to stress it is a room you will share.