<p>IBP: people will be available curbside to lug all your boxes and stuff to the student’s room. Some parents then stay to help assemble the room, unpack, etc. They look around and then head off to Ikea or wherever to buy last minute items.</p>
<p>But there are tons of students who just get into town w/o any relatives and make it happen by themselves.</p>
<p>As the parent of a rising sophomore, I know that I will REALLY miss those move-in helpers this year!!!</p>
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<p>We are like your family–arriving by plane, rental car etc. Not bringing tons of stuff
We are hoping that our student gets more info in the mail etc…as a room number and one name leave us with questions like…?? Is it a double??? Because a parent of another 2015 said their students info had the name of the roommate and then the names of the others in the suite…</p>
<p>We plan to attend the move in stuff for parents/Saturday and then make ourselves scarce.</p>
<p>fogfog- Look on the screen that gave your son his residential college assignment. Look to the left margin where it says Room Assignment and it will say (letter)(number)(number)(letter). The last letter is your son’s actual room. Then look below the Room Assignment and see the Suitemates and their rooms listed (also in the left margin) if no one else in the suite has that letter then he is in a single within that suite, if someone else in the suite shares that last letter he is in a double with the person who shares his last letter. Trying to decode the rest of the room thing I think the first letter is the entryway he uses to access his room in his particular residential college and I (think) the first number is the floor and the second number is the actual suite.</p>
<p>At least I think this is how it works, anyone who knows more feel free to correct me.</p>
<p>I just found a folder with some info we got last year as S was incoming freshman. One letter is dated July 20 and apparently came with info on his freshman counselor, dean, master etc. It also said that the calendar for opening days will be mailed in early August and the course catalog (Blue Book) will be mailed August 1 (these were the dates from last year; this year would likely be similar.)
Make sure that you attend the Freshman Assembly (Saturday morning)…when they sing “Bright College Years”…wow :)</p>
<p>fogdog - as far as the bathrooms go. My son’s was an in suite bathroom. It was clean when we got there but the wife cleaned it again. By mid year, I didn’t want to use it. I tried to get them to assign someone each week to clean it but it fell on deaf ears.</p>
<p>splat11: We had exactly the same experience. It was horrendous. We lobbied the administration to change their policy about not having in-suite bathrooms cleaned, but no go. (They said they would take it under advisement, then we never heard about it again.) Yale states that it’s a privacy issue, but when the school needs access to the suite for a maintenance issue or an IT issue, they just come on in, so I don’t think that’s a valid reason.</p>
<p>The “assignments” usually don’t work well for long from what I hear. One student told me some more affluent students never cleaned anything in their homes, “help” always did. Some found the whole thing disgusting. Well, that is part of life, there isn’t always someone to do it for you. Mine weren’t that priviliged but still don’t like to do it, but will. The outright refusal to do it causes issues.</p>
<p>Found a floor plan of Vanderbilt hall—our student is in a double, not a quad…so the common room will be furnished by 2 families…and being in B entryway–ther are 14 for that bath…omg!
I am hoping that with that many parents–we can get people to step up and help pay for those shower cleaner things, and a bunch of mats to be replaced…
I hear the cleaning crews are students work assignments and come every 2 weeks…
14 kids … one bathroom–the floorplan looks like its not very big–not lots of showers/toilets/sinks.</p>
<p>Speaking off bathrooms, anyone know if the ones in Durfee need shower curtains or do they have shower doors?</p>
<p>I know we didn’t need to supply anything for that…she might have had a door.
I supplied windex, mildew spray, p.towels, lysol…but I can’t say they ran out very soon.</p>
<p>Target and Ikea
We will not be driving up for freshman move in, but flying. Someone told us you could shop for larger items other than linens (bookcase, sofa/chair, etc.) in a store where we live in Texas, then pick up items in Connecticut. We went to Target and Ikea, and both said they don’t have such a program. Any suggestions ? Thanks for any input.</p>
<p>^^^BB&B does this, or at least they did 4 yrs ago. The Ikea is very close to Y, so you should be able to pick up what you need there easily.</p>
<p>IvyBoundParent, We were flying also. The headache we found out is that if the furniture is too large to be picked up by yourself, you need to wait there – it could be quite a hassle as the parents may not have too much time staying there and the student may be too busy for waiting for the delivery.</p>
<p>We ended up driving to a Target store at North Haven, and purchased all that he needed at Target. It took several trips because of the size of our rental car. (The small shopping center at North Haven has some nearby furniture stores (and a Home Depot as well) – somewhat high-end furniture stores though. There is a nice restaurant chain (called Friendly?) there, where you can eat brunch while shopping there.)</p>
<p>I know the “pain” of flying from Texas, especially if your city does not have a direct flight to BDL. Being in a big city like Dallas or Houston would be better if flying back and forth is what your child needs to do for the next 4 years. (I think DS has had 16 round-trips in 4 years, piling up a lot of frequent flier miles.)</p>
<p>There is also, a bit closer, in Hamden, a BBB, a Walmart, Staples, Stop & Shop, dollar stores, Gap, Kohl’s, all in 2 plazas next to each other. To eat in those plazas are Friday’s and IHOP along with Chili’s.</p>
<p>^ Isn’t there an all-you-can-eat Sushi Palace near where you were talking about? When DS was a freshman, we dared not travel toward that direction. (We had unjustified New Haven phobia at that time due to our unfamiliarity with the city initially.) When DS took a standardized test around that area many years later, we found it is a quite convenient and nice area.</p>
<p>Yes, that’s it.
[Sushi</a> Palace - Hamden, CT](<a href=“http://www.yelp.com/biz/sushi-palace-hamden]Sushi”>http://www.yelp.com/biz/sushi-palace-hamden)</p>
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<p>Good to know. </p>
<p>How do they handle the car traffic in front of the dorms…is it a swuing through, unload the pile onto the curb kinda thing? Then move the car away to the parking?</p>
<p>It was very busy for freshman move in day. You drove up to your area on old campus and the kids from his college jump in and move all the stuff to the dorm room. It was qiuck. I think they emptied the van in under a minute. You then moved along to park the car. There were lots available in the city. We were early, I think around 9:30-10</p>
<p>It did go very quickly, but it was very organized and we didn’t have to jockey for a spot at the curb. A small swarm of kids from your student’s residential college (each RC has their own unique/funny t-shirt “uniform”) comes over, empties your car/van, and either loads it into a cart or carries the stuff right up to their room. Then you go off and park. There are signs at the curb for each RC, so you’ll know where you should park.
You shouldn’t have a problem.</p>