College Dorms. . .A Few Questions

[stardusttwin]

School: Penn State Univ

1. Did your school(s) have single sex dorms? co-ed? combo?
I believe there was one co-ed dorm when I was there, probably more now. At the time, most of the dorms were single sex, the apartments (usually jr/seniors) were single sex apts in a co-ed bldg

2. Did you all have a visitation policy? What was it?
I have no idea what the "official" policy was. I lived in a basement room and just opened the side door to let my (or floormates) guests in. I think you had to show ID after hours to say you were a student but if you were with a dorm resident you weren't stopped. Most of the times issues came up if one roommate had a boyfriend who always came over but it was usually up to the RA to mediate.

3. Did you live in SS or Co-ed dorms? Why (if you had a choice)?
Single sex, my mom was not havin it any other way...

4. Did you sneak folks in and out?
Yes, (see #2)..although it was just out of laziness not to go up to the front door...we didn't have dorm checks like my friends told me about at HBCU's or a curfew

5. Did you have roommates? Do you still keep in touch with them?
Keep in touch with roomie from freshman year (she was a Jr), NO to sloppy sue from soph year, after that I lived alone in a single and then off campus. I also keep up with my floor mates...

Reminisce about dorm life. Funny moments? Outrageous moments?
Watching the Mifflin Streak (all the men from this one dorm in the middle of finals week would run through the quad buck naked)....seeing who was creeping with whom when ever there was a fire drill....hiding in the closet when we were too tired to even be bothered (or it was too cold) for a freaking fire drill, being so excited that I won a call in radio contest and sharing the grand prize w/roommate and floor mates (a foot long hoagie ), gearing up for the fight on Thursdays...we had to take shifts in the rec room from early in the afternoon to keep the tv all day so we could watch Cosby/A Different World (I forget what the white girls wanted to watch..but it was one of many things that was divided by race at the time)

[krayziigyrl]

Originally posted by CrimsonTide4
Last night reminded me of dorm life and the rules.

I know we have threads where we identify if we went to a PWI or an HBCU but refresh my memory when you respond.


DORM LIFE:

1. Did your school(s) have single sex dorms? co-ed? combo?
2. Did you all have a visitation policy? What was it?
3. Did you live in SS or Co-ed dorms? Why (if you had a choice)?
4. Did you sneak folks in and out?
5. Did you have roommates? Do you still keep in touch with them?


Reminisce about dorm life. Funny moments? Outrageous moments?

Hampton Universty (The Real HU!!!)

1. When I was there they had a one coed dorm.. The first three floors were male the rest were female.

2. Yep the visitation policy was from 7 to 11 weekdays and I think midnight on weekends.

3. I lived in a single sex dorm because I was too lazy to turn in the early housing lottery application.

4. Of course I did! Junior year I was an RA 24 hour visitation!! and Senior year I stayed in a dorm with no desk sitter!


5. yep, I keep in touch with my roomate from freshman year.

I remember my sophomore year I stayed in a dorm with an intercom system. If someone did not bring their "guest" down in time the Desk person would call the persons full name and room number and tell them it is time to bring their guest downstairs. How embarassing... needless to say I didn't have any guests my sophomore year.

[Honeykiss1974]

Originally posted by krayziigyrl
I remember my sophomore year I stayed in a dorm with an intercom system. If someone did not bring their "guest" down in time the Desk person would call the persons full name and room number and tell them it is time to bring their guest downstairs. How embarassing... needless to say I didn't have any guests my sophomore year.

*LOL* They used to do that in our dorms too!

[Ideal08]

Wittenberg University in Springfield, Ohio
http://www.wittenberg.edu


1. Did your school(s) have single sex dorms? co-ed? combo?

We had one single sex dorm called Hanley, but it was connected to 2 co-ed dorms. The rest of the dorms were all co-ed. Ferncliff was co-ed by floor. The 3rd floor was 1/2 male and 1/2 female.

2. Did you all have a visitation policy? What was it?
Yes. Visitation of opposite sex in your rooms was over at midnight on Mondays - Thursdays or maybe Sundays - Thursdays. Fridays and Saturdays, no opposite sex in your room after 2:00a.m.

We had nightguards where you had to sign your company in and out. Nightguards were on duty from 9 - 4a.m. I worked this job all thru college. LOVED IT!! It's when I did all of my homework and got to see people creepin'.

3. Did you live in SS or Co-ed dorms? Why (if you had a choice)?

Freshman year -- Myers Hall, honors dorm, co-ed
Sophomore -- Ferncliff, co-ed. Why? It was an upperclassmen dorm. Also, my current manfriend lived there that same year. It was cool to be in the same dorm.

4. Did you sneak folks in and out?
No. I snuck in and out of his room.

5. Did you have roommates? Do you still keep in touch with them?

Freshman thru Senior year #1 -- Janae. Yes, she is my spec and I was a bridesmaid in her wedding. We were friends before Witt.
Senior #2 -- Keesha (Beauty08). Yes, she is my LS. Also, Michelle. She is a soror, but we don't keep in touch.

[Mz Destiny]

School: Lincoln University (PA) and Temple University

1. Did your school(s) have single sex dorms? co-ed? combo? All co-ed dorms at Temple. Mostly single-sex at Lincoln.

2. Did you all have a visitation policy? What was it? 24-hour visitation at Temple. SERIOUS visitation policy at Lincoln. The only 2 weekends at Lincoln that were 24 hour visitation were Homecoming (Fall) and Punk Rock (Blue & White weekend-Spring). Any other time, visitation ended at 10 or 11 Sunday-Thursday, and 2am on Friday and Saturday.

3. Did you live in SS or Co-ed dorms? Why (if you had a choice)? Didn't really have a choice at either school. Lincoln-Single sex. Temple-Co-ed dorm, single-sex floors.

4. Did you sneak folks in and out? No need to sneak at Temple. Lincoln? HECK YEAH!!! It got to be a pain in both situations though.

At Temple, there were many times where you may run into a guy in your floor bathroom at 3 in the morning because he was too lazy to go upstairs to the men's floor to use the bathroom. Plus, you would hear doors slamming and people in the halls all times of night. You could never really look bummy because you never knew who you were going to run into on your floor.

At Lincoln, I lived on the ground floor near the back door that was always used as the sneak door! Once in a blue the alarm would be on. If you know anything about Lincoln, it is out in the middle of nowhere, and the dorm that I lived in was right next to the soccer field, so whenever someone would prop open the back door to let people in, all kinds of bugs, worms, mice and whatever would come crawling in the building. It was quite disgusting! I will never forget the "surprise" room checks after curfew. Man! That was always a comedic site! You would see guys falling from the windows in their boxers with their girls throwing their clothes out after them. My roomates had to go through that mess too. I used to go home every weekend, so every Monday morning when I came back, the roommate I had 1st semester would have a new man in her bed. EVERY WEEKEND! And let's not talk about the empty 40 bottles and blunts laying around. Needless to say, I would kick him out and cuss her out as soon as I stepped in the door at 6 in the morning. Let's not even talk about the weekend I came back and she had re-arranged the room with both of our dressers down the middle of the floor serving as the dividing line. Man! I could not wait for 2nd semester! That's when I got a new roommate! She wasn't as trifling, but she had her ways about her too. Ahh...Dear Lincoln...Dear Lincoln...

5. Did you have roommates? Do you still keep in touch with them? I've gone through my share of roommates at Lincoln and at Temple. I had 2 roommates at Lincoln. You can read about
the 1st one in the previous paragraph. Pure drama! She was a spoiled rich chick from New York. Boarding School all her life. So she was probably used to acting out. We actually became friends after I moved across the hall. LOL I left Lincoln after my 1st year, so I wasn't even trying to keep in contact with her. My 2nd roommate was from DC. She was cool. We both sang and we were in the gospel ensemble together. I still see her ex-boyfriend once in a blue-he's here in Philly. We had our issues also, but we got along better. I keep in touch with a few people who know her and I ask how she's doing, but that's the extent.

I lived in the dorms and commuted at Temple. The 1st year I lived in the dorms, my roommate was one of my childhood best friends. It was a good idea at first. We got along, but we learned quickly that we just should have never been roommates. It's like that sometimes. We still see each other on the regular. The 2nd and last semester I ever lived on campus, I was thrown into a suite with the 2 roommates from hell! They were mad that I got placed in their suite 2 weeks before the semester started. We spoke on the phone and it was cool. But once we started living together? Pure hell on earth! I was hardly ever there because I had a work study job, an internship at a local radio station and a full load of classes. Plus, I had a car. However, the time I did spend there was HORRENDOUS! They didn't want me to have any male company in the suite. However, their men took up permanent residence. They would use up all of my toilet paper and never replace it. They even went as far as to hide their silverware in my cabinets and then blame me for stealing it-then reported me to the RA for stealing. I was like why the heck would I steal your Dollar Store crap? I'm never here! I even tried to be nice to them. I would bring them things from the radio station. My granny would send back extra food to share with them. Needless to say, my kindness was look at as a weakness. I just wanted peace in my home. I reported all of this to the RA on my floor and nothing happened. I took it as far as the RD, and all the RD said was, wait it out. WAIT IT OUT MY EYE! They tried to place me in another suite-this time with 5 other girls and I would have had the top bunk! I don't do bunk beds-period. So what did I do? I called my girl, told her to get her mom's truck and hightail it to my dorm. Yup...I sat outside with all of my things. As soon as my girl and her brother got there, I loaded up my car and her truck and home I went. The RD even came outside and asked me where I was going. I told her home. She was like why? I told her because she doesn't care about her residents. That was the end of college campus living for me. I commuted for the rest of my time at Temple. Can you tell I'm still bitter? LOL

Reminisce about dorm life. Funny moments? Outrageous moments? I think I covered the outrageous moments in the above-mentioned paragraphs. Funny moments? Too many to recall. Dorm life was a trip.

[tld221]

Yes indeedie on the visitation policy and we had a CURFEW freshman year. Freshman curfew was 12 midnght Sunday - Thursday and 2:00 a.m. on Friday and Saturday nights first semester. 2nd semester there was no weekend curfew but still the weekday curfew. Visitation was something like 6 p.m. -10 p.m Monday through Friday and longer on the weekend. Can't remember. There wa no visitation until after Labor Day. (Most folks were on campus about 2 weeks earlier) That first day visitation was like a HOLIDAY! Folks were happy!! LOL We had to do that whole, sign a guy in, announce "man on the hall" when they came down a hall. WE were also supposed to leave our doors open when we had visitors.

see this is why im gonna be hating when (if) i attend spelman next semester.

school: NYU

1. Did your school(s) have single sex dorms? co-ed? combo? nah. its mixed in all the dorms, and all the floors. of course more girls than guys (its like 60:40 female:male here). i've always lived next door to guys, and not an issue. theyre actually talking about having coed rooms--i draw the line there!

2. Did you all have a visitation policy? What was it? just sign the person in. if you were signing in another nyu student, they can sign themselves out when they leave. RAs have priveleges to walk through any dorm (we have 16 dorms i think) b/c they have special IRHC housing stickers. we can have overnight guests up to 6 nites a semester, but they really dont count like that, since theyres like 1100 residents. can sign in 3 ppl at a time.

3. Did you live in SS or Co-ed dorms? Why (if you had a choice)?this wuestion doesnt apply, b/c we dont have SS dorms. we've got traditional and apartment style. singles, doubles, quads, quints combinations, and penthouses (11 ppl in one place, but its 2 floors. its like real world style in them pieces!)

4. Did you sneak folks in and out? only if you were over the sign in limit, but you could always find someone to sign others in for you. and NYU security are tight, so we dont play.

5. Did you have roommates? Do you still keep in touch with them? i have 2 roommates now (im surviving!) and 2 roommates last year. i keep in touch with one of them, we're really cool.

p.s.: (+) personal bathrooms! another thing ill miss when i head south...communal bathrooms! lemme grab my flipflops and towel.

[brickhouse492]

Howard University DORM LIFE:

1. Did your school(s) have single sex dorms? co-ed? combo?
Slow hall was co-ed. I think the atheletic dorms were co-ed too. The freshman dorms were single sex. But I stayed in this dorm called Meridian. It was co-ed and it was so much fun. Fun, fun, fun. It was fun because having visitors wasn't a problem.

2. Did you all have a visitation policy? What was it?
All visitors had to have identification. Visitation was over at certain hours. Can't remember times.

3. Did you live in SS or Co-ed dorms? Why (if you had a choice)?
After freshman year I lived in a co-ed dorm (by choice) because I wanted to live like normal folk. After Meridian, I found an apartment off campus.

4. Did you sneak folks in and out?
In and out.

5. Did you have roommates? Do you still keep in touch with them?
I had a roommate freshman year and that was it. Not even the whole freshman year because the girl left. I was very fortunate.


I do remember hogging the hallway payphone.
The kitchen was filthy. Oodles of noodles was typically on the dinner menu because I couldn't cook. I ate so much of it. Today I won't touch the stuff. I don't know, college life was fantastic.

Edited to add an outrageous moment: Freshman Year (living in the quad), I made my boyfriend, who came all the way from NY, wear a wig in order to sneak him in. It was very cold out. He stayed in my room the entire week. That was totally outrageous.

[brickhouse492]

Originally posted by krayziigyrl
Hampton Universty (The Real HU!!!)

With all due respect Ms. Kraysiigyrl, you can't be serious?! I remember ThunderMachine (our drum section) blew Hampton away at their homecoming and a fight broke out. Pathetic.

No but really, are you serious With all due respect ma'am.

[MeezDiscreet]

Originally posted by CrimsonTide4
Last night reminded me of dorm life and the rules.

I know we have threads where we identify if we went to a PWI or an HBCU but refresh my memory when you respond.


DORM LIFE:

1. Did your school(s) have single sex dorms? co-ed? combo?
2. Did you all have a visitation policy? What was it?
3. Did you live in SS or Co-ed dorms? Why (if you had a choice)?
4. Did you sneak folks in and out?
5. Did you have roommates? Do you still keep in touch with them?


Reminisce about dorm life. Funny moments? Outrageous moments?

1. our dorms are co-ed. the dorms i lived in freshman year (the towers a.k.a. soddom and gomorrah) had a girls floor and a boys floor and in the other dorms, your neighbor might be of the opposite sex but not your suite mate.

2. we had 24-hour visitation. in the towers, we had to sign our guests in but not in the other dorms.

3. see q#1

4. there was no need to sneak since we had 24-hour visitation

5. i'm still cool with my roommate from freshman year but we don't really keep in touch since we graduated. we had kinda lost touch when she pledged a.k.a. and i pledged delta. but we're still cool. sophomore year, my roommate was my best friend from high school and we still keep in touch. my roommate from my junior year--nah, we don't keep in touch. then my roommate from my senior year is my line sister (my #4) so we still keep in touch.


my roommate from my junior year was quite an experience. she was a freshman and although her house was 15 minutes away, her parents were unable to let her go. she had to check in with them for EVERYTHING!! one friday she decided to go out with her best friend and spend the night at her house. she asked me to lie to her mother when she called. not wanting to do that, i just didn't answer the phone while i was there. of course it kept ringing so i turned the ringer off when i went to sleep.

i awoke at 7 a.m. the next monday (saturday) by someone bamming on my door. when i went to answer the door, i noticed that there were 14 messages on the answering machine. who was at the door? her father!! he had been all around the campus looking for her. he went to her on-campus job looking for her. he had been checking trash cans for her body. i could tell that he was an emotional wreck and i was pissed because it was 7 in the morning!! i told him i didn't know where she was. he left me his number if i heard from her. i went back to bed.

about 2 hours later, someone is barging through my door. who the hayle is running up in my room? an r.a. and a campus police officer!! he's questioning me like i did something to the girl. i was like "look, i don't know where the hell she is but i don't appreciate ya'll barging in here like ya'll crazy." they leave.

now the phone is ringing off the hook. her mother keeps calling. i left for 5 minutes and she had called 7 times!! then another call comes in and i thought it was my roommate from the voice. i was like "you need to call home because your people keep calling here." well, it was her cousin and when she realized i thought she was my roommate, she played along to get the info. then she tells me that it isn't her, she's on her way to the school to check the library and in the meanwhile, she wants me to call the police. then i had to go ahead and tell them, "don't do all that. i don't know where she is but she went out last night with her best friend." you know that they didn't believe me because "that isn't the type of thing she would do."

when the girl finally got to her parents house, all of her relatives were there praying and burning candles. when she came back to the room, i cursed her out and told her not to ever pull that mess again because her family is nuts!!!!

[CrimsonTide4]

Originally posted by MeezDiscreet
then my roommate from my senior year is my line sister (my #4) so we still keep in touch.

I bet she is ALLA DAT!!!

Originally posted by MeezDiscreet
when the girl finally got to her parents house, all of her relatives were there praying and burning candles.

LMAO LMAO LMAO. . .dang.

[MeezDiscreet]

Originally posted by CrimsonTide4


I bet she is ALLA DAT!!! [/b]

yep! she sure is! well, she's my line sister so expect nothing less!!

LMAO LMAO LMAO. . .dang. [/B]

o.m.g. yes!! no lie!

[CrimsonTide4]

Originally posted by krayziigyrl
I remember my sophomore year I stayed in a dorm with an intercom system. If someone did not bring their "guest" down in time the Desk person would call the persons full name and room number and tell them it is time to bring their guest downstairs. How embarassing... needless to say I didn't have any guests my sophomore year.

WOW!!!

Originally posted by brickhouse492

Edited to add an outrageous moment: Freshman Year (living in the quad), I made my boyfriend, who came all the way from NY, wear a wig in order to sneak him in. It was very cold out. He stayed in my room the entire week. That was totally outrageous.

Oh my lawd.


Oh and to edit my own response to #4. . .I only snuck in one person, my ex who was a Marine and it wasn't really sneaking. The person who had nightguard duty that night was cool peeps and she knew that I never walked people out the front door because our dorm (Ferncliff) had other doors.

I don't want you all to think that CT4 got down like that. I was in the library most nights til it closed.

[1browngirl]

Originally posted by CrimsonTide4
Last night reminded me of dorm life and the rules.

I know we have threads where we identify if we went to a PWI or an HBCU but refresh my memory when you respond.


DORM LIFE:

1. Did your school(s) have single sex dorms? co-ed? combo?
2. Did you all have a visitation policy? What was it?
3. Did you live in SS or Co-ed dorms? Why (if you had a choice)?
4. Did you sneak folks in and out?
5. Did you have roommates? Do you still keep in touch with them?


Reminisce about dorm life. Funny moments? Outrageous moments?

NC State University - Raleigh, NC

1. We had SS and co-ed dorms
2. You had to sign your visitors in, escort them if they went anywhere other than to your room or suite and escort them out.
3. Fresh yr: single sex, Moma Brown was not having me in a co-ed dorm. But that was cool because the guys dorm was a hop/skip/jump away
Soph yr: Crazy roommate (didn't know it at the time) and I wanted to live in a co-ed dorm but we had a lottery type system and we didn't get picked to live there. So, single sex
Junior/Senior yr: I moved off campus to avoid crazy roommate problems.
4. No, I was too scared of getting caught!
5. Fresh yr: roommate was my best friend middle school-high school. BIG MISTAKE... we are cool with each other when we run into each other.
Soph yr: We Dont keep in touch.
Junior yr: I moved off campus thinking things would be better. I moved into a private residence hall, 3 melanin challenged girls and me. I was friends with one of the girls but the other had serious issues....she was in love with her 2nd cousin. We don't keep in touch.
Senior yr: moved into off campus student apartments.

I do better living on my own, much less drama.

Only thing about dorm life, think someone mentioned it before.... fire drills and having to go outside in the middle of the night during one or hiding in the closet until the drill was over then acting like nothing happened. Seeing who was with who during the drills....making sure you combed your hair and looked half decent before going outside because you never knew who you'd run into.

[RedefinedDiva]

1. Did your school(s) have single sex dorms? co-ed? combo?
My school had only single sex dorms.

2. Did you all have a visitation policy? What was it?
Yes. The "Open House" policy was something ridiculous like 6-10 p.m. on Thurs., 6-11 p.m. on Sat., and 6-8 p.m. on Sun. Last I heard (about two+ yrs ago), Open House had been extended to every night.

3. Did you live in SS or Co-ed dorms? Why (if you had a choice)?
Single sex--No choice

4. Did you sneak folks in and out?
I never did sneak anyone in. The girls' dorms were like Fort Knox. We had around the clock security and overnight desk attendents. All the doors had alarms and the rooms on the first floors had little windows (that no human could reach or fit through without getting caught) or they were rigged to only open enough that they wouldn't get sited for a fire hazard.

On the other hand, I did sneak into the boys' dorms on occasion. No one cared what they did. You would have to sneak into the dorm and break up some stairs (like "No Drawers" was talking about). The disgusting part was if you had a friend that lived on the fourth floor or above. You would be panting like a dog once you reached the room.

5. Did you have roommates? Do you still keep in touch with them?
I had a roommate for two semesters. After that, I had private rooms for the rest of my stay.

[My_Legacy]

Hey everyone! I have one year yet to go, but I had to get in on this one!

Fisk University and Chestnut Hill College

1. Fisk was single sexed ( when I attended) and CHC is still single sexed (we recently went co-ed)

2. Fisk-vistation policy---HA! The only vistation we had was in the lounge on the 1st floor and you were WATCHED!
CHC-pretty lenient policy: 3pm-3am

3. I lived in a single-sexed dorm-had no choice!

4. @ Fisk- Did we sneak folks in and out.....DID WE? YEEEEES! My RA's room was right next door; we would hold our fingers to the peep hole and sneak the guys in. Some girls had men over for weekends, sneaking them in and out! I also did my fare share of sneaking into the guy dorms...12mid, out by 5am! We got fined if we were caught!

My roommate and best friend was bold enough to go earlier-she would wear big sweats, a baseball cap, and stroll like a dude....she pulled it off! I was too small and prissy to act like a dude..lol


5. After I transferred from Fisk-my roommate and I have still remained the best of friends. I still visit Fisk (I am a true FISKITE!),a nd we are planning to go to Germany this summer!

Geez..i miss those days......