If you managed to snag a housing contract through the lottery, you now need to worry about fighting the masses to pick a place to call your own for next year.
“Squatting”
Squatting is an upper-class privilege allowing students to return to the same room the next year. To be eligible to squat this year, you must be entering your Junior or Senior year and living in Townhouses or Eickhoff. (Note: if you currently live in West and are on probation you cannot squat.)
To squat, simply return your completed housing contract to the Townhouses South Office on Wednesday, March 23rd. When you go to turn in your contract, you will be told if there are any restrictions on your room, and possibly re-assigned. (i.e. Some townhouses will be designated as wellness for next year. Students wishing to squat in these buildings will be permitted to squat elsewhere on campus.)
Room Selection
Room sign-up times are posted along with lottery numbers. Be sure to have your housing contract completely filled out prior to the day you can sign up, and get to your sign up time early. It’s a good idea to know who you want to room with (if you want to room with anyone) and what buildings you would like to live in before going. ResLife suggests having 3 options – here at the Jolt we suggest you make a list of all possible options and rank them because housing fills up very quickly.
Sign ups take place in the TW Main Lounge. You must enter through the Wolfe side. Here, you’re asked to do a few things. There are a few small forms to fill out (survey and meal plan) before picking housing. Once you’ve filled them out, they call numbers in order. When you’re number is called you go in and sign up for the building you want.
The system allows people to be “pulled in”. If you know who you want to room with, you can sign up at the same time. For this, you always go at the earliest scheduled time. (If you are number 5 and your roommate is number 3005, you can both sign up when it’s your turn.) To sign up, you both must have made the housing lottery cut-off, and have your housing contracts completely filled out. In every building, you can pull in a roommate (or, in the case of townhouses, a floor mate), unless it is a single outside of townhouses. Other buildings allow you to pull in varying numbers. In Decker, you can pull in 1, 3, or 4 other people depending on the suite. In Cromwell, 1 or 5. In townhouses, 1 or 3. These numbers do not include yourself.
If your whole group cannot be housed together and must split up, you may not all be able to sign up at the same time. For example, if you have a group of 4 that are trying to sign up for Decker and Decker is full when you go to sign up, you must break into 2 groups of 2. If the next highest lottery number of the group does not fall in the same time slot, that 2 must wait until their scheduled time to sign up.
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