Horrible dorm assignment!

[Anonymous]

I would have pledged my future first born kid for a single my freshman year. My roommate got mighty tired of coming home on weekend nights and seeing rubber bands on the door handle. IYKYK.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Hm. I grew up in LA, went to USC, and spent the summer at Scripps in the dorms one summer. I think they all had AC but truthfully couldn't swear to it. Maybe Scripps didn't?

Everyone I know in LA does have AC, and the inland valleys get really hot, but they do cool down at night usually. The problem is that sometimes the buildings absorb so much heat during the day that it takes them a while to cool down at night. With the temperatures getting warmer around the globe, Sept. and May are hotter than they used to be.

This! We now live in Southern California a couple miles from the coast. We have to turn on our air conditioning for about 20 minutes in the evenings when it has been a hot day just to cool down the house or it is tough to comfortably fall asleep.

According to a 2017 article in the student newspaper during heatwave in September

"At Claremont McKenna College, 10 of the 14 residence halls are air-conditioned, and seven of Scripps’ nine have AC. All of Harvey Mudd and Pitzer College’s residence halls have air conditioning." The article also clarifies 38% of the 16 dorms at Pomona have air conditioning Norton, Oldenborg, Harwood, Mudd-Blaisdell, Ivon Court, Gibson. 87% of dorms in the other 5Cs have air conditioning, on average. 853 Pomona students live in a dorm with no air conditioning.

You can get used to living without AC but I would be annoyed if I were paying 89K a year to a college for my child to live on campus in an area with extreme heat without AC.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hm. I grew up in LA, went to USC, and spent the summer at Scripps in the dorms one summer. I think they all had AC but truthfully couldn't swear to it. Maybe Scripps didn't?

Everyone I know in LA does have AC, and the inland valleys get really hot, but they do cool down at night usually. The problem is that sometimes the buildings absorb so much heat during the day that it takes them a while to cool down at night. With the temperatures getting warmer around the globe, Sept. and May are hotter than they used to be.

This! We now live in Southern California a couple miles from the coast. We have to turn on our air conditioning for about 20 minutes in the evenings when it has been a hot day just to cool down the house or it is tough to comfortably fall asleep.

According to a 2017 article in the student newspaper during heatwave in September

"At Claremont McKenna College, 10 of the 14 residence halls are air-conditioned, and seven of Scripps’ nine have AC. All of Harvey Mudd and Pitzer College’s residence halls have air conditioning." The article also clarifies 38% of the 16 dorms at Pomona have air conditioning Norton, Oldenborg, Harwood, Mudd-Blaisdell, Ivon Court, Gibson. 87% of dorms in the other 5Cs have air conditioning, on average. 853 Pomona students live in a dorm with no air conditioning.

You can get used to living without AC but I would be annoyed if I were paying 89K a year to a college for my child to live on campus in an area with extreme heat without AC.

It’s interesting the TSL got this so wrong. Hardwood, Gibson, And “Lyon” Court do not have AC, nor do any Clark dorms (including Norton). It’s actually very hard to get a dorm at Pomona WITH AC: Mudd/Blasidell, Sontag/Dialynas (seniors only with a few juniors sprinkled in), Oldenborg (must speak a language and get a rec letter from a language faculty member to get into a language hall). It can kinda suck for the first few week if you're on the second or third floor of the very old south campus dorms and your room is unreasonably hot, but most of the dorms are pretty solid and are aided by the common rooms/lounge having AC. Most of the school year (after the first two or three weeks really), everything is solid.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How does a school like Pomona with a fuggin three BILLION dollar endowment not manage not put AC in all its dorms? High Point has significantly less money and more students to spend its money on, but it makes sure all of its students have comfortable living arrangements.

Priorities. Schools that skimp on actual education have more left over to spend on amenities. Plus High Point is in a mountain of debt.

Their oldest building where admissions sits at has AC and was built in 1888.
Their gifted Carnegie Library, now an economics hall, has AC and was built in 1908.
It’s simply about will to treat your students well.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How does a school like Pomona with a fuggin three BILLION dollar endowment not manage not put AC in all its dorms? High Point has significantly less money and more students to spend its money on, but it makes sure all of its students have comfortable living arrangements.

Priorities. Schools that skimp on actual education have more left over to spend on amenities. Plus High Point is in a mountain of debt.

Their oldest building where admissions sits at has AC and was built in 1888.
Their gifted Carnegie Library, now an economics hall, has AC and was built in 1908.
It’s simply about will to treat your students well.

Surely you can tell the difference between renovating an academic building with a few classrooms and offices versus a Dorm with a greater power need and many more rooms

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How does a school like Pomona with a fuggin three BILLION dollar endowment not manage not put AC in all its dorms? High Point has significantly less money and more students to spend its money on, but it makes sure all of its students have comfortable living arrangements.

Priorities. Schools that skimp on actual education have more left over to spend on amenities. Plus High Point is in a mountain of debt.

Their oldest building where admissions sits at has AC and was built in 1888.
Their gifted Carnegie Library, now an economics hall, has AC and was built in 1908.
It’s simply about will to treat your students well.

This x 1000! Clearly a priority for the other 5C’s!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hm. I grew up in LA, went to USC, and spent the summer at Scripps in the dorms one summer. I think they all had AC but truthfully couldn't swear to it. Maybe Scripps didn't?

Everyone I know in LA does have AC, and the inland valleys get really hot, but they do cool down at night usually. The problem is that sometimes the buildings absorb so much heat during the day that it takes them a while to cool down at night. With the temperatures getting warmer around the globe, Sept. and May are hotter than they used to be.

This! We now live in Southern California a couple miles from the coast. We have to turn on our air conditioning for about 20 minutes in the evenings when it has been a hot day just to cool down the house or it is tough to comfortably fall asleep.

According to a 2017 article in the student newspaper during heatwave in September

"At Claremont McKenna College, 10 of the 14 residence halls are air-conditioned, and seven of Scripps’ nine have AC. All of Harvey Mudd and Pitzer College’s residence halls have air conditioning." The article also clarifies 38% of the 16 dorms at Pomona have air conditioning Norton, Oldenborg, Harwood, Mudd-Blaisdell, Ivon Court, Gibson. 87% of dorms in the other 5Cs have air conditioning, on average. 853 Pomona students live in a dorm with no air conditioning.

You can get used to living without AC but I would be annoyed if I were paying 89K a year to a college for my child to live on campus in an area with extreme heat without AC.

Especially if you are paying the same rate as someone who gets AC and is in a newer dorm! What the actual f$ck?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hm. I grew up in LA, went to USC, and spent the summer at Scripps in the dorms one summer. I think they all had AC but truthfully couldn't swear to it. Maybe Scripps didn't?

Everyone I know in LA does have AC, and the inland valleys get really hot, but they do cool down at night usually. The problem is that sometimes the buildings absorb so much heat during the day that it takes them a while to cool down at night. With the temperatures getting warmer around the globe, Sept. and May are hotter than they used to be.

This! We now live in Southern California a couple miles from the coast. We have to turn on our air conditioning for about 20 minutes in the evenings when it has been a hot day just to cool down the house or it is tough to comfortably fall asleep.

According to a 2017 article in the student newspaper during heatwave in September

"At Claremont McKenna College, 10 of the 14 residence halls are air-conditioned, and seven of Scripps’ nine have AC. All of Harvey Mudd and Pitzer College’s residence halls have air conditioning." The article also clarifies 38% of the 16 dorms at Pomona have air conditioning Norton, Oldenborg, Harwood, Mudd-Blaisdell, Ivon Court, Gibson. 87% of dorms in the other 5Cs have air conditioning, on average. 853 Pomona students live in a dorm with no air conditioning.

You can get used to living without AC but I would be annoyed if I were paying 89K a year to a college for my child to live on campus in an area with extreme heat without AC.

Especially if you are paying the same rate as someone who gets AC and is in a newer dorm! What the actual f$ck?

The only new dorms are senior dorms. The “newest” dorm after that- Lyon-built in the 1990s- is one of the worst dorms on south campus. New means pretty little.

[Anonymous]

^^^What is bad about it other than no AC?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:^^^What is bad about it other than no AC?

Mostly rich kid issues. The other, older dorms are prettier and Harwood, for example, is a south campus gem with many balconies, personal patios, and even a few dorms with sun rooms. There’s also an amazing balcony dorm in the front that’s massive and just gorg.

Meanwhile, Lyon is pretty ugly and there are few facing the beaches (just patches of grass with different amenities) and more facing the softball field which is A) Loud and B) not very aesthetic

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:^^^What is bad about it other than no AC?

Mostly rich kid issues. The other, older dorms are prettier and Harwood, for example, is a south campus gem with many balconies, personal patios, and even a few dorms with sun rooms. There’s also an amazing balcony dorm in the front that’s massive and just gorg.

Meanwhile, Lyon is pretty ugly and there are few facing the beaches (just patches of grass with different amenities) and more facing the softball field which is A) Loud and B) not very aesthetic

Sounds like the housing is pretty damned good. Sunrooms and Balconies?! We got prison cell windows at my state university.

[Anonymous]

You’d think a ritzy woke school would try to level “inequities” by providing one of its biggest issues that causes poor academic performance: access to adequate housing.

[Anonymous]

There has to be some Pomona basher lurking around DCUM pushing up as many Pomona/CMC posts as possible. There’s a disproportionate amount of threads about it when it’s a super small school and accepts like 5 kids from DC every year. Many schools have 10 times the housing issues, CS department issues, and whatever other issue this poster wants to conjure up for discussion.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hm. I grew up in LA, went to USC, and spent the summer at Scripps in the dorms one summer. I think they all had AC but truthfully couldn't swear to it. Maybe Scripps didn't?

Everyone I know in LA does have AC, and the inland valleys get really hot, but they do cool down at night usually. The problem is that sometimes the buildings absorb so much heat during the day that it takes them a while to cool down at night. With the temperatures getting warmer around the globe, Sept. and May are hotter than they used to be.

This! We now live in Southern California a couple miles from the coast. We have to turn on our air conditioning for about 20 minutes in the evenings when it has been a hot day just to cool down the house or it is tough to comfortably fall asleep.

According to a 2017 article in the student newspaper during heatwave in September

"At Claremont McKenna College, 10 of the 14 residence halls are air-conditioned, and seven of Scripps’ nine have AC. All of Harvey Mudd and Pitzer College’s residence halls have air conditioning." The article also clarifies 38% of the 16 dorms at Pomona have air conditioning Norton, Oldenborg, Harwood, Mudd-Blaisdell, Ivon Court, Gibson. 87% of dorms in the other 5Cs have air conditioning, on average. 853 Pomona students live in a dorm with no air conditioning.

You can get used to living without AC but I would be annoyed if I were paying 89K a year to a college for my child to live on campus in an area with extreme heat without AC.

Yeah there like 1,100 undergrads so 853 w/out is most everyone.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hm. I grew up in LA, went to USC, and spent the summer at Scripps in the dorms one summer. I think they all had AC but truthfully couldn't swear to it. Maybe Scripps didn't?

Everyone I know in LA does have AC, and the inland valleys get really hot, but they do cool down at night usually. The problem is that sometimes the buildings absorb so much heat during the day that it takes them a while to cool down at night. With the temperatures getting warmer around the globe, Sept. and May are hotter than they used to be.

This! We now live in Southern California a couple miles from the coast. We have to turn on our air conditioning for about 20 minutes in the evenings when it has been a hot day just to cool down the house or it is tough to comfortably fall asleep.

According to a 2017 article in the student newspaper during heatwave in September

"At Claremont McKenna College, 10 of the 14 residence halls are air-conditioned, and seven of Scripps’ nine have AC. All of Harvey Mudd and Pitzer College’s residence halls have air conditioning." The article also clarifies 38% of the 16 dorms at Pomona have air conditioning Norton, Oldenborg, Harwood, Mudd-Blaisdell, Ivon Court, Gibson. 87% of dorms in the other 5Cs have air conditioning, on average. 853 Pomona students live in a dorm with no air conditioning.

You can get used to living without AC but I would be annoyed if I were paying 89K a year to a college for my child to live on campus in an area with extreme heat without AC.

Yeah there like 1,100 undergrads so 853 w/out is most everyone.

There’s like 1800… 1/2 sucks but it’s not everyone