[OT] Freshman room assignments

[Killer]

[Q]billhoward Wrote:

Hey - make sure the entering freshman knows the basics of laundry. A lot of freshmen think white underwear plus their new red Cornell tees (never washed) plus hot water plus bleach will make the white stuff whiter and the red stuff redder. [/q]

LOL.  I accidentally did that my freshman year.  One of my track t-shirts went unnoticed into the underwear load.  Turned about 2 weeks worth of whites into pinks.  Good thing Mom was smart enough to send me off with about 6 weeks worth.

On a related note, I don't know if they still do it, but a couple of times the guys who did the laundry for the athletic teams used to throw red dye in for Valentine's Day and green dye in for St. Patrick's.  We'd come in to get our socks, t-shirts and jock straps only to find the baskets full of colored goods.  I'm sure they had a good chuckle knowing the teams were running around in red or green jocks.  Then, when the usual white stuff was back, there were always a bunch of the colored ones still mixed in.  For whatever reason, guys avoided them.  Since those didn't get worn day-after-day, the easiest way to make sure you had one that was in good shape was to simply grab for red or green in the basket.

[krodh293]

Well...actually, there's one half of one floor (where I live) that is really active and noisy.  I have no idea how I get any work done with so much distraction.

[billhoward]

In all back and forth about working mothers (when mom is hope, it nurtures the kid vs. when mom is working, the kid learns independence) one positive attribute of both parents coming home dead tired from work was they were in no mood to wash that very special pair of jeans you just had to wear the next day ... so you learned to do laundry on your own and thus didn't have the problem of the whites becoming pink from being washed with your red Cornell T-shirt.

[Molly]

All I can say is that writing more on that housing sheet seems to help:  My freshman year roommate checked off all the boxes and wrote "clarifying" notes in the margins to make sure she got a good housing assignment.  We ended up paired in Donlon (great dorm), and it turned out eveyrthing we had matched:  everything was blue, shoes were similar, clothing looked the same, we kept the same hours, etc.  Things worked out so well, we lived together sophmore and senior year as well.  :-)   So maybe the housing office does pay attention to those sheets.

Then again, they also put two girls--both named Rebecca K.--in the same room.  Asking for my friend, Becca, on the phone was a real pain in the butt that year.  :-P