Friday, April 8, 2011

Please Housing?


My roommate and I were talking about where we are going to live next year. We decided that we were going to live together again, so that takes out a lot of stress with worrying about who you are living with the next semester. When we went on the housing website to find out where we are living next year, the site had no details. I went to the housing office to see if they could look it up in their system, but they said that they didn’t have that information yet. Why is it that they don’t have that information?

If we had that information now, we could schedule our classes around where we live and work out the timing so that we could have time to go home between classes and be able to schedule them so that we don’t have to wake up too early. For example, if we knew we were living in South, then a class in Thomas at 9:05 wouldn’t seem so bad, because they are practically across the street from each other. We could also prepare ourselves for the 20-minute walk in the cold, if we had a class in the Ford building from South. I feel that I would sleep better knowing where I’m going to be moving my stuff in a few short months.

I miss the days of not having a care in the world. Little details like figuring out where you have to move your stuff for the next semester can be really stressing to an individual. You would think that housing would make the process of figuring out where you are living readily available as soon as they sorted through all of the housing contracts, but I feel that is not the case. I don’t think they find pleasure in delaying the process, but I just wish they could get the information out faster so that my roommate and I didn’t have to wonder every day where we are going to be next year.

4 comments:

  1. I ended up getting a single room, and Housing let me pick where I want to live, which is West. I don't know why they won't let you do the same for doubles.

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  2. Yeah, we all know housing can be a pain. But like Tom pointed out, I also believe that you should have been assigned your residence hall area by the end of January and should have been able to pick a specific room and hall by the end of march?! I'm surprised housing wasn't able to tell you what happened. Anyway good luck! If you need a place, there's still a room in our copper beech townhouse...

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  3. Yeah it can getting annoying when its not 100% yet. My roommate now and I requested on campus and they let us then select which area/building we wanted to live in. It's not official yet that we got our buildings of choice but it would be helpful to find out soon to plan on scheduling classes.

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  4. I agree I picked SOuth and West, I would like an idea of some sort of vicinity.

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