Has anyone felt disappointed by the dorm?

[Anonymous]

your kid does not need a microwave and a refrigerator….

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:You are not middle class - middle class kids in this area aren't having large bedrooms with a private bath. You are wealthy. Time for them to live in the real world.

Oh stop. Plenty of homes in my older neighborhood have this set up for kids and they are not mansions by any stretch. Mine doesn't but lots of my neighbors do.

And, what are your homes worth. You aren't middle class. Lets be real. You aren't living pay check to pay heck and can afford an expensive college.

Middle class homes in this area are 800-1400 or so square feet. We have 1000 square feet. We have one bathroom for everyone.

Yup i live in MoCo with my daughter in a SFH. It is 900 sq ft. with 3 bedrooms and one bathroom. It is absolutely perfect. I make about 70K.

[Anonymous]

many colleges have dorms like that. it's not great, but it's better than the colleges where rooms vary vastly building by building or even room by room.

[Anonymous]

Crappy dorms are part of the experience. No big deal. However, with climate change, I think more and more buildings are going to need AC.

[Anonymous]

We did not get my kid a fridge or microwave.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:FFS, folks. Grow up.
During my entire freshman year, I lived in a single that was turned into a double. We had bunk beds. It was miserably cramped. The shower was disgusting. It was dark and your feet sunk into the rotting concrete when you stepped inside. It was in the basement of a century old dorm at a very prestigious liberal arts college.

Why do your little snowflakes need their own room, their own bathroom, their nice comfy double bed, all the cozies and tidiness and oomphieness of home when they are in college?? This is real life. Mommy and Daddy are paying now, but not forever (unless you suck at parenting), so start getting used to some deprivations, kiddos.

My kid's dorm room is so small, she is supposed to have bunk beds, but she refuses, so she and her roommate are working out a floor plan so they can squeeze two twin beds in their. One of them is going to put her desk in the hall because she doesn't study at a desk.

Yeah, $80k for this!! Whine away, parents. This is college as it's always been and likely always will be.

It didn't always cost $80K though.

[Anonymous]

My son's freshman dorm last year was truly awful. And he said he would have not traded the experience for anything - he made wonderful friends there and the actual room was irrelevant in the end. The room may seem important on day one, but if you like your roommate and dorm mates, that is what matters. You can have the most luxurious accommodations, but if you are surrounded by people you don't like, that is be far worse.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:many colleges have dorms like that. it's not great, but it's better than the colleges where rooms vary vastly building by building or even room by room.

cough cough Harvard cough cough

[Anonymous]

I didn't even have a sink in my first college dorm room. You had to walk down the hall to the communal bathroom.

We could have a fridge but no microwave. We all secretly had the forbidden little hotpots for making soup and noodles.

If you are worried about lack of sleep then sign up for the quiet floor or quiet dorm. Kinda like the quiet car on Amtrak. It was lifesaver for me because i was not a party-er. But having a hotpot was my rebellion

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We did not get my kid a fridge or microwave.

Red wine does not need refrigeration.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It’s the lack of AC that may make my snowflake melt. How many of our kids don’t have AC before they get to college?

We had no AC growing up and none at college. None in any of the group homes I shared post-college. I just realized I never had AC until I bought my first home at age 30. Lots of fans , though. Guess I didn't think about it until now.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous[b wrote:]literally every persons who has ever lived in a dorm felt disappointed by the room itself[/b]. It builds character. You want nice things? Work hard.
I look forward to the day my kids learn just how cushy they’ve had it here at home! 😂

The key to not being disappointed is to keep expectations low!
Just moved DD into her dorm today. She had very low expectations and ended up pleasantly surprised. She knew there was no AC but found the hallways do have it and her room is actually right by the unit, so just leaving the door open made the room quite cool. More storage than anticipated, she actually had empty drawers. She lucked out with one of the larger rooms on the floor. Other kids walked by and commented on it.

[Anonymous]

Most of the replies on this thread are bonkers.

Just because you lived through it, it doesn't mean it's right, especially at today's exorbitant prices, which, corrected for inflation, are STILL much more expensive than what your college experience cost.

Also, you are all laboring under the delusion that because you had to do it, everyone else has to do it. No. This is how we get generational injustices and discrimination, mostly aimed at women and minorities. To extend this line of thinking to a commercial enterprise is sheer madness.

[Anonymous]

Why everyone here is so mean? OP has a very legitimate complain.
We were very disappointed a year ago when our DC was placed into a double with 2 roommates because the school was overenrolled. He had to sleep on the upper bund bed closer to the ceiling light. No air conditioning. We paid $80K for a LAC in NE.

[Anonymous]

Parents demanding deluxe accommodations is part of why college prices have skyrocketed. The amenities in college campuses are ridiculous. We should be paying for the education primarily not expecting spoiled rich kids to have luxe accommodations and amenities.