[Mick]

[quote author=FarmBoy link=topic=12000.msg116325#msg116325 date=1428502144]Hasn't it improved?

Maybe since I graduated, but from 05-09 it was pretty bad. Of course, it varied a lot depending on where you were, and I such royally shitty draw luck (I think my combined numbers were in the 6000's, it was at least very high 5000's) that I never lived anywhere nice. The only place I ever ate regularly that had consistently very good food was Yost, which had a private chef and I believe no longer does, I think that happened around the same time the eating clubs got killed. Lag was okay, and GovCo was consistently at least tolerable, but Wilber and the one for Castano/Latana/that-other-one (clearly I'm blanking on some names here) was mostly miserable.

But what really pisses me off is living arrangements. I just don't get why there are so many 2-room doubles when you could just switch that door and have singles. I get that a lot of people want social lives and they're arguably better than that, but given the insane demand for singles there should be more of them. I just don't think adults should be forced to live with other people (or be obscenely rich and live off-campus). Given that Stanford has more than enough money to house undergraduates in reasonable quarters, they should just do it.

Again, I may have just gotten totally screwed (mean number of roommates was 2), but I think that someone who just wants a quiet place to come home to should be able to get it without having to get stupidly lucky in both draws.
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I remember my first semester junior year was utter bliss because my roommate to be transferred to UCLA a week before school started.  I had the room to myself (ecstasy).  Then, I found out the type of guy who has to wait a semester to get into the dorms.  I literally never saw him eat anything other than nacho cheese Doritos or drink anything other than Coca Cola.  He was not, shall we say, the most popular guy around the dorm.

[Mick]

[quote author=FarmBoy link=topic=12000.msg116325#msg116325 date=1428502144]Hasn't it improved?

Maybe since I graduated, but from 05-09 it was pretty bad. Of course, it varied a lot depending on where you were, and I such royally shitty draw luck (I think my combined numbers were in the 6000's, it was at least very high 5000's) that I never lived anywhere nice. The only place I ever ate regularly that had consistently very good food was Yost, which had a private chef and I believe no longer does, I think that happened around the same time the eating clubs got killed. Lag was okay, and GovCo was consistently at least tolerable, but Wilber and the one for Castano/Latana/that-other-one (clearly I'm blanking on some names here) was mostly miserable.

But what really pisses me off is living arrangements. I just don't get why there are so many 2-room doubles when you could just switch that door and have singles. I get that a lot of people want social lives and they're arguably better than that, but given the insane demand for singles there should be more of them. I just don't think adults should be forced to live with other people (or be obscenely rich and live off-campus). Given that Stanford has more than enough money to house undergraduates in reasonable quarters, they should just do it.

Again, I may have just gotten totally screwed (mean number of roommates was 2), but I think that someone who just wants a quiet place to come home to should be able to get it without having to get stupidly lucky in both draws.
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I remember my first semester junior year was utter bliss because my roommate to be transferred to UCLA a week before school started.  I had the room to myself (ecstasy).  Then, I found out the type of guy who has to wait a semester to get into the dorms.  I literally never saw him eat anything other than nacho cheese Doritos or drink anything other than Coca Cola.  He was not, shall we say, the most popular guy around the dorm.