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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]She's giving him a thoughtful gift.  Funny how it's not helicoptering to have your kid on a meal plan but somehow it's a moral imperative that each kid do his or her own laundry.  Both are arrangements that give college students a chance to escape a big part of the overhead of daily living.  
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Dorm rooms don't have kitchens and the school usually requires a meal plan. Dorms rooms DO have washers, and the school DOESN'T require Mommy to pay someone to do your clothes.[/quote]

Most dorms DO have kitchens in them.  At my university, freshman dorms had a common kitchen on each floor, and upperclassmen dorms were set up in suites, each of which had a kitchen.[/quote]

That was my experience too (except Freshman year).  There were also co-op housing options on campus where the kids were (collectively) responsible for doing all their own cooking, cleaning, and shopping.  I've noticed that arrangement on other campuses as well during recent college visits.[/quote]

Freshman dorm kitchens are a little limited since they typically have no actual cooking supplies. One of my DCs lived in on campus apartments for 2 years that similarly didn't have any cooking supplies but in that case we were able to outfit the kitchen with the basics. But the college required all students to be on the meal plan anyway so the students living in the apartments weren't really responsible for providing their own meals. They were responsible for cleaning though. So different colleges may have different arrangements and standards.

OP if you or your DC wants a laundry service, then he should get one. Not sure how posting on DCUM helps though. If you name the college perhaps people with kids at that college can help with names of service but it's probably better for the student to just sign up when he arrives. At one of my DCs college there are multiple laundry services and you can sign up whenever, it doesn't require advance planning. At the other kids college I am not sure there even was a laundry option other than linens. 
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