Indiana University 2014 Recruitment

[sigmagirl2000]

I still don't understand. Why on earth have a room if you don't sleep in it? How in the world do you sleep in an unheated room in Indiana or anywhere else that gets remotely cold in the winter? This sounds like... I don't know.... girl scout camp in the winter or something.

No lights + no heat = no friggin way.

In my chapter, the members were displeased if they got assigned to one of the two triples in the house, because there were too many people in the room... and those rooms were like 15' by 20'.

Everyone fought for the one tiny single... maybe we New Englanders are just more private people?

[AnchorAlumna]

Originally Posted by sigmagirl2000

I still don't understand. Why on earth have a room if you don't sleep in it? How in the world do you sleep in an unheated room in Indiana or anywhere else that gets remotely cold in the winter? This sounds like... I don't know.... girl scout camp in the winter or something.

No lights + no heat = no friggin way.

You had a room in which to keep your clothes, books and general stuff, in which to dress, study, hang out with your roomies etc. - everything except sleep, and we did that on the sleeping porch.
No heat - I still like a bit of a chilly room to sleep in. You turn on your electric blanket about 30 minutes before you go up to bed. Once you get there, with another blanket and your flannel PJs, you're toasty warm and can sleep SO well. It's not like being outside in the open. It's not nearly as cold inside since you do have walls and bodies around you. Summertime - well, the house was closed in the summer so it wasn't an issue.
And it's not pitch black dark - the exit signs are on 24/7. When the sun came up, it was darkish, but not black-dark.
As far as the alarm issue - we didn't have a schedule, but you could post a note in the main telephone room where people hung out to wake you. Usually the girls would turn their alarm off quickly. And you just kind of train yourself to ignore other people's alarms.

[blueiumom]

Originally Posted by sigmagirl2000

I still don't understand. Why on earth have a room if you don't sleep in it? How in the world do you sleep in an unheated room in Indiana or anywhere else that gets remotely cold in the winter? This sounds like... I don't know.... girl scout camp in the winter or something.

No lights + no heat = no friggin way.

In my chapter, the members were displeased if they got assigned to one of the two triples in the house, because there were too many people in the room... and those rooms were like 15' by 20'.

Everyone fought for the one tiny single... maybe we New Englanders are just more private people?

Still making me smile . . . in Indiana, our "cold dorms" definitely have heat - at least they did by the time I was in school in the eighties. It was radiator heat though, hard to control from room to room. So, we chose our bunks based on what temperature we prefered. The warm dorm was just plain hot and I figured cultivated germs like crazy, then there was an in-between temperature dorm, and the cold dorm usually had the windows open to offset the hot radiator heat! And of course we all slept in those hot Lanz flannel nightgowns! I'm sure the house corp loved our approach. :-)