<p>Lofting the bed will allow you to get a dresser underneath maximizing remaining floor space. It is hard to plan this all out in advance and it is helpful to plan on doing a run to BBB or Ikea once you see the room. I wished I had brought basic tools with me and ran out to Home Depot to get some stuff which I left for future years. In fact, one of the new high school graduation presents I give is a Home Depot tool kit. Although the dorms have wifi, a 25+ foot Cat5 cable also was something I needed which is dirt cheap if ordered on-line but pricey to buy locally.</p>
<p>Also, there are definitely non-suite rooms on old campus. Sometimes an individual needs to leave a suite situation and they have some flexibility with unoccupied single rooms. How many people fill out their housing forms in such a way that they would start in one of those rooms is unknown to me.</p>
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S was in Farnam his freshman year and I bought those risers at BB&B. We never even opened the box: his bed (he was in a tiny single in a six person suite) was like a captain’s bed, with drawers built in the bottom for storage. So you may want to take them and have the possibility of not using them or wait and buy them once you get there (if you will be going along and have a car.) But if you wait and do want them, you may not find them, so I’d opt for taking them along.
Hooray, I don’t remember if you said which dorm your child will be in, so things vary, but in S’s room there was a built in closet, a shelf running along one wall (about 5’ or so off the floor - kind of at eye level) that was good as a book shelf and storage space/shelf above the door (if that makes any sense…kind of hard to describe.)
Because there’s so much variation between dorms and even within them, it might be better to wait to get stuff once you’ve seen the room (either in person or if you could somehow find info online.)
No matter what, it will all work out 
Good luck!
PS - I share your feelings about lofted beds…my son had that setup in his boarding school and I HATED it. I told him that I wanted to dig out the Fisher-Price bed rail that I used when he first started sleeping in a “big boy bed.” I was kidding (a little bit 
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<p>Hunt, you are correct. I called JE today and confirmed he is in a double with just one other person. They have a room, a bathroom and an anteroom which seems to be a good size. DS is away and I spoke to him briefly on the phone when he had a few minutes of reception and he was disappointed (although he didn’t know about the common room and assumed it was a traditional double like most colleges have). It’s certainly nothing in his application as he emphasized being a sociable person. Both he and his roommate requested the college because of sibling affiliations and I wonder if that’s why they got the double since they are more familiar with the college and chose it. I do think it might be wise for Yale to mention that not everyone will get matched with several people. They promote the experience of community so much that it is disappointing for those who are not assigned to a full suite.</p>
<p>I have noticed among my child’s Yale friends that people who are in a freshman housing situation that is not as sociable as they would like (or perhaps just does not click with them) have no problem being ‘adopted’ by some other more like-minded suite. 2 out of the 4 in her freshman-year suite ended up spending most of their time in other suites. The other 2 had deeply engaging EC’s that occupied a big part of their social lives and time. It (mostly) all works out.</p>
<p>YaleGradandDad, please help, what exactly would the Cat5 cable be used for?</p>
<p>A Cat5 cable is (was) used to connect to the internet via your computer’s ethernet port. Now, Yale’s entire campus is high speed wireless, so there’s no need for one. (My son, nor his roommates, ever never had to use one last year. BTW: New MAC computers don’t even have ethernet ports anymore.)</p>
<p>Thanks, Memake, for sharing that. I will pass it along.</p>
<p>Thanks gibby! Phew! That’s a relief.</p>
<p>Bring a small tool kit is a fab idea! Thanks yalegradanddad</p>
<p>Hi All…</p>
<p>A couple things</p>
<p>On floor plans–last year we scoured the FB etc for floor plans–and hoped it would help…they were not accurate as the renovations had changed configurationl. So for example, what looked like 2 closets, were gone–and the door from the common room to the bedroom was moved. </p>
<p>Bed frames–at least the ones in Vandy–are not only stackable, they are adjustable so the beds could be bunked, or raised/lowered as singles separately.</p>
<p>Of the things we brought from BB&B…the wood block bed risers went back, as did a nice over the door hook for coacts. However, K1s roommate had a hook that fit over a thicker wooden door.</p>
<p>Bingham has the washers/dryers for Old Campus…</p>
<p>Move it goes very smoothly because of all of the student volunteers–who empty cars and haul it all to the freshmens rooms so quickly.</p>
<p>The bathroom on K1s floor/entryway had a couple of showers for something like 14-16…they work it out…kids learn to not hog the bathroom/shower</p>
<p>The furniture included for each student : a single bed/mattress for each, a desk/chair and small file drawer, a chest of drawers each, a SMALL wardrobe with a small amount of hanging space for each. </p>
<p>After seeing the room etc - we made a Walmart run and purchased 2 large rubbermaid bins to go under the bed with the drawers.</p>
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They will be right across the hall from a big suite–they should just be very friendly to those people from the start, and they can probably hang out there. A bathroom for just the two of them? That’s pretty sweet.</p>
<p>I think the person I spoke to said there is a bathroom. I guess there would need to be or what would they use unless there is one in the main hallway? I can’t figure out the anteroom. Someone sent me a floorplan of Lawrence which is supposed to be similar in layout. It appears an anteroom could be more like a long hallway although the woman in JE said there is room for chairs, etc. She said the anteroom is 112 square feet. But, again, that could either be a very nice common area, or a long hallway that takes them to the room.</p>
<p>If it’s the same are the room I’m remembering from 30 years ago, it’s a two-room double with a common room and a bedroom.</p>
<p>Thanks so much to everyone for the input.</p>
<p>my2sunz, that was a funny story about the boarding school loft bed/desire for Fisher Price railing. There was a story on the “move in day faux-pas” thread about a son being embarrassed when his mom produced his teddy bear as he was unpacking in the dorm. I bet a bed-rail wouldn’t be too popular, either. </p>
<p>It seems like lofting is against the rules, anyway. From Yale website: [Dormitory</a> Regulations | Yale College](<a href=“http://yalecollege.yale.edu/content/dormitory-regulations]Dormitory”>http://yalecollege.yale.edu/content/dormitory-regulations) </p>
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<li>Alterations. Students may not make alterations to their rooms. No lofts or partitions of any kind may be constructed.</li>
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<p>FogFog, thanks for sharing your experiences – I’m expecting to adjust, return stuff, and buy stuff for sure. Sorry to hear about those vanishing closets! Interesting about the beds that could be raised and lowered. You say you returned your wood block bed risers. Was that because you found that the beds could be raised so much that you didn’t need them? How high did the bed go, if you don’t mind my asking?</p>
<p>I don’t think raising a bed with commercially available add-ons would be constructing a loft.</p>
<p>Back in the good old days, we used to carry sheetrock and studs up the stairs and construct our own walls to partition a common room into a bedroom. I don’t think wooden blocks, bricks, or PVC bed risers would be an issue :).</p>
<p>In 2009, Yale posted a bunch of “Yale Crib” videos on YouTube. I quickly went through several of them and found the beds. At 3:20 on the below video, you can see the captain style beds, which are lofted waist-high with dresser drawers underneath. My son had this kind of bed last year in Vanderbilt, so there’s really no need for bed risers, wooden blocks, or PVC.</p>
<p>[Durfee</a> E21 - YouTube](<a href=“Durfee E21 - YouTube”>Durfee E21 - YouTube)</p>
<p>Hunt, amazing that you can remember so clearly – were you in that room? That sounds very nice, especially if there is a suite across the way for socialization. I think having a common room would also allow the two people in a double to have others over and allow them to feel more social.</p>
<p>I was in the basement in Farnam, in one of the bigger suites. The two-room double was right across the hall.</p>