<p>ok then tell me, how do i actually find out how many roommates i have??</p>
<p>When you get your official housing from Princeton, you will find out.</p>
<p>then how did everyone else find out??? , sorry…but the wait’s really killing me!!!</p>
<p>your room doesn’t seem too huge. So it’s either a single or a double.</p>
<p>But since I know nothing about floorplans i’m very likely wrong.</p>
<p>How many roommates did you ask for?</p>
<p>I wonder why I can see only part of each floor plan. Hmmm.</p>
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i asked for a quad ( i wanted it soooo much!!!) , but 1942 doesn’t have quads, so it should be a double (i would have preffered a single to a double!!!) …i dont know what the housing people are thinking during the assignment!</p>
<p>I’m in the same boat, adides… I asked for a quad, got a double, and would have preferred a single. But whatever… it is freshman year housing. You almost never get what you want.</p>
<p>Upcampus dorms generally run on the “entryway” system. First digit or digits is the door/stairwell number. Second digit is often the floor, third the room. A classic example is my freshman year room, 215 Joline – second entry, first floor, fifth room. Some upcampus dorms, like Holder and Blair, omit the floor number, and some are totally wacky for basement or top floor rooms (ex. the 300’s in Blair, 001A Campbell). Downcampus dorms with hallways are likely to run in the more standard “hotel” configuration where the first digit is the floor, and the second and third indicate the room number.</p>
<p>Alumother (and Aludaughter) – Bloomberg is where I would live if I didn’t want to keep my semi-private bathroom in Scully. (I’d probably even pick it over Dod, and Dod is considered THE best and only seniors usually stand a chance.) It’s rand-new, going into its second year of occupancy. Lots of study and social space. Furthermore, the basement level has music practice rooms, a dance studio, the radio station, theater practice space, and so on. It’s very well-lighted, and the bamboo floor is beautiful. I lived there for dead week and reunions this year, and it was very pleasant.</p>
<p>Ashley '06</p>
<p>are there music practice rooms, dance studio…etc in the basement of 1915 hall??</p>
<p>adi, I got a single!!! 045 Holder Hall</p>
<p>… and so did my roommate. 045 Holder Hall… Wicked…</p>
<p>Alumother:
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<p>Oh, my… </p>
<p>AFAIK, S wanted a sub-free single somewhere mid-campus - Butler or Wilson, maybe Mathey… He’ll live in a quad in Rockey (which, his friends tell him, is eee… preppiest?). </p>
<p>What are they doing with all those room requests? XOR them to offer exactly the opposite to what was requested??</p>
<p>Ashley,</p>
<p>Thanks so much for the thoughts. I have a question I’d love to hear more thoughts on. Aludaughter has a single on a hallway. The hallways are pretty long. I understand that it’s one wing of the dorm that’s been allocated to Butler. So I would assume that means that the hallway on her floor and the other floors in the wing she is living in will be populated with Butler freshman and sophomores. So - will the environment be conducive to kids getting to know their hallmates? Will it feel like living in isolation or more like living in a very large suite? Is there common room space on the upper floors or only in the basement? Kitchens?</p>
<p>I truly appreciate the info.</p>
<p>Alu</p>
<p>marmat - I am beginning to wonder if in fact they do put kids where they think they can be challenged, or else moderate their environment…Maybe they put Aludaughter down at the absolute bottom of the hill surrounded by upperclassmen precisely because they figure she is the type who will make friends come hell or high water. Maybe they figure an introvert would sink down there and spend all their time meditating on the lovely hardwood bamboo floors…</p>
<p>My only real concern is that she can be shy at first, so the first few months may be a trial.</p>
<p>Who knows? I only hope it will seem funny in a few years. Perhaps your son wants to change with my daughter:)?</p>
<p>Errr… do you mean, exchange the living quarters?</p>
<p>I’m pretty sure he’d love to… But I don’t think your daughter will be happy to live with 3 male roommates :)</p>
<p>I know, I was kidding, but you know she might prefer the 3 male roommates…JK.</p>
<p>I got exactly what I wanted - I even, in a brainfart moment, put “short” down as one of the 6 perfect words to describe my roommate, and guess what? I got an Asian! ;)</p>
<p>Also, I’m a math major, my roomie is a computer science, across the hall is a math and a mechanical engineering, and kitty corner is a chemical engineer. Crazy</p>
<p>so u r saying asians are short?? wth…</p>
<p>“What are they doing with all those room requests? XOR them to offer exactly the opposite to what was requested??”</p>
<p>I certainly thought that for a while… I requested a single, and got a quad. However, I adapted, and in the end I think living in a quad was a relatively good thing. It’s not that I would have isolated myself in a single, but having people around who were in many ways not at all like me tended to make me more adventurous – always good. My theory (echoing someone a few posts back) is that they match people in order to challenge them as much as possible, and to avert absolute disasters. (It’s very difficult to get your housing assignment changed; it almost has to be a health hazard or something.)</p>
<p>“Will the environment [in Bloomberg] be conducive to kids getting to know their hallmates? Will it feel like living in isolation or more like living in a very large suite? Is there common room space on the upper floors or only in the basement? Kitchens?”</p>
<p>I have a little experience with this because its sister dorm Scully (upperclass) is quite similar, just a bit older. It won’t be at all like living in a very large suite, unless your hallmates are the most social people on the planet. Living in a single does put the burden on you to get out and do things. My advice (even though it’s against fire code) is to prop your door open when you’re in your room for the first week or so, and write a welcoming message on your whiteboard. If you’re feeling extra-adventurous, wander around the halls and introduce yourself to anything that moves. While it may seem awkward to just approach people at random, Princeton is small enough that you WILL see them again, somewhere – you might as well have met each other, right? It never gets easier to meet people than freshman year, before people are cemented in their ways… except perhaps right after Bicker/Sign-In, the Great Reshuffling. During the magical time that is Freshman Week, stating your name, res college, and serial number over and over like a broken record to any and all is considered par for the course. Take advantage of it. This goes for all of you, not just the Ellipsoids.</p>
<p>Just realized that Ellipse is no longer Ellipse, and I’m too lazy to go back and edit. For those I’ve confused, Ellipse was the tentative name for Bloomberg. Personally, I think it should have been Mulder, but that’s a different story…</p>
<p>Most of Ellipse’s common space is on the second and third floors; the basement areas are mostly for individuals and student groups, not socialization/studying. I’m not sure how much common space there is in the rest of Butler, but I’d venture a guess that Ellipse has more. Also, don’t be afraid to venture out of your dorm… go to Frist, Wu Cafe, or wherever.</p>
<p>BTW, how the heck do you quote someone on this message board? I’m too lazy to figure it out right now, so the old quotes’ll just have to do.</p>
<p>Ashley '06 (is lazier than the five paragraphs make her out to be)</p>
<p>[ quote] BLAH BLAH <a href=“take%20out%20the%20spaces”>/ quote</a>
That one would look like:
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<p>If you want to quote someone specifically,
[ quote=Ashley ]Hiii[/ quote]
So that would look like:
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