<p>Last yr Best Buy is where we found what son needed. I can’t remember the size, but what Costco had was too large. In son’s dorm last yr-electrical products > than allowed seemed to cause power problems.</p>
<p>Ah that explains it…Thanks</p>
<p>We bought the $99 one at Target. It is very nice. The ice cube tray cracks me up…it makes 12 ice cubes that MAY fill up a 12 oz cup.</p>
<p>D2 just got one, the same as her older sister got last year…cost 79.99 at Best Buy…is 2.7 cubic, white. Worked well for other D with one roomie last year. Actually, D2 has a FULL fridge as well as this one in her apt. style space. </p>
<p>I don’t know the size of your car. But your D goes to school in state so it seems to me that if all else fails, you can take fridge on another trip other than the day you take everything else. My kids go to school too far to ever make more than one trip. Last year, the car was jam packed and the fridge was strapped onto the roof of the car. This second child has just as much and in fact, just bought a digital piano she is taking as well, so can’t wait to see how this all makes it. :D</p>
<p>Susan</p>
<p>We are seriously thinking about renting a small trailer to make the six and a half hour trip to school. It’s not so much weight as volume that presents a problem for us. This year’s addtions are a light-as-air, but space-consuming bean bag chair, a five-bulb floor lamp, a small bagless “stick vacuum” and an area rug! I’m tired just thinking about hauling that stuff to her room!</p>
<p>Some people rent minivans for the moveins just for these reasons!</p>
<p>Two years ago I ordered one for my son on line at walmart and shipped directly to him. It arrived very quickly, and the added cost of shipping wasn’t too bad. He has managed to find kids staying over the summer to keep it for him from one year to the next.</p>
<p>I was just thinking of the two trips last night. It would be nice if the fridge was there the first day as they dont offer meals for a day or so after she moves in…
Last year we moved her TV in separately. We managed to get it all home in one trip but had to toss the carpet (which she doesnt need this year) Hated to toss it but we did offer it for free and no one took it.
There was no way we fit it in the car.</p>
<p>Why would students arrive for New Student Orientation and not have meals available? Is is that the meals are a supplemental fee? Are you sure those meals aren’t included in a fee for NSO? I am surprised by this.</p>
<p>Its true. The freshman start moving in on Sat and they dont start meal service till Sunday evening. </p>
<p>Also they dont serve breakfast on any weekend (during the school year) till 11am which I think is ridiculous.</p>
<p>So in addition to not “serving” there is not Grab N Go or continental…nothing for all times…what do diabetic students do at this school?</p>
<p>LOL Hazmat…Grab N Go - you got a way with words I say!</p>
<p>I know the cafeteria is not open. I dont know if anything else is. I was so surprised though. A lot of kids like to eat earlier than 11am. (this is a big school with 25,000 undergraduates!) I think about 14,000 live on campus…not sure. I dont know why they dont have open cafeterias…</p>
<p>The meal plan at UMD does not start until 4PM on Sunday for returning students, but the dining halls open at 11AM on Saturday and freshman have paid a fee to eat there. Returning students and parents can eat there, but have to pay for their meals.</p>
<p>I would contact the head of food service and inquire. Even at my boarding school we could go to the dining hall and access juice/yogurt/fruit. So I guess for you the fridge is a necessity…survival as it were.</p>
<p>One of my daughters is a soph and is moving in five days before classes start. At her school, there was an option for paying a fee for meals for those five days and she did. Freshmen, however, have meals paid from the moment they arrive for the orientation week. She, being a soph, did not HAVE to arrive this soon but the option is there and the food service option is as well. </p>
<p>Angst, from reading emmom’s post, it sounds like returning students like your D CAN eat in the cafeteria on Saturday and pay for the meals. That makes sense cause I cannot imagine dorms being open with no meal services open yet. </p>
<p>Susan</p>