Must've Been a Hiccup

[willowisp]

Nope, not the earthquake which just happened; I'm not in California. However, the USPS came through again and delivered the dorm room deposit check today. Of course it was sent priority and Andy mailed it on Saturday, so there was no chance they would have attempted to deliver it on Saturday.

I'm hoping that everything else can be done online from now on.

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[jayfurr.livejournal.com]

What are the dorms like? When I was a college student we lived two to a room with a bathroom a mile down a hall. Today's students seem to get these cushy suites, four individual living quarters with two bathrooms and a shared living room and mini-kitchenette and stuff.

[willowisp.livejournal.com]

Note that much of this is from memory; things may have changed in the past 20-odd years.

Most of the dorms have standard two-to-a-room (three when there are more students than rooms), with a few actual three people per room (four when students outnumber rooms) with bathrooms shared by the floor. Back then most of the dorms were co-ed, but there was one all-female and all-male. The all-male dorm was made co-ed in my last year there. Since then the all-female dorm has become a freshthing only.

There were a few exceptions. One building had suites, and there was a very small (24 students, 16 rooms) dorm for non-trads, graduates, visiting professors, and the like. I lived in the all-female one and then the super-small one while I was there. The super-small one no longer exists as a dorm, which makes me sad.

There are a few exceptions this time around. The all-suite hall is still around, and suites have their own bathroom. There is dorm made out of an old historic building which, by the virtue of its being a hotel former, has private bathrooms in each room (and drafts, and asbestos, and other fun stuff from being a historic building). Finally, there is a dorm complex for seniors, honors juniors, graduate students, and a few other groups which consists of all single rooms. The last is the one I'm hoping for.

The existence of and hype which surrounds the exceptions make me think that the other dorms are more or less the old style.