Dorm room
Overview
Each pair of Missouri Academy students is given a room inside the four-story residential hall Cooper_Hall. The room's dimensions are listed as (fill this in) x (fill this in), but they vary to a sufficient degree that you shouldn't build anything according to those specifications. It is recommend that you call the Academy office and request dimensions for a specific room rather than guessing.
What you get
Every room comes equipped, by default, with the following items:
- One school computer.
- Two beds.
What you should bring
Most people would agree that the following things are necessary:
- A mini-refrigerator - Unless you plan on eating in the Union all of the time, this is essential. The Station, an on-campus convenience store which allows purchases with Aladine, sells many food items that must be refrigerated to be safely eaten. Also consider the problems of storing milk for cereal and chilling sodas.
- A printer - Printing to the school printers costs $0.10 per page, which can become expensive when you're printing multiple drafts of a paper or printing smaller assignments frequently.
- Ethernet cable - If you plan on bringing your own computer and want to connect to the network, bring some cat5.
- A fan - It's uncomfortably hot in the rooms August-October, as they lack air conditioning. Fans don't solve the problem completely, but they helped me (Mpnolan) at least fall asleep.
Issues
Some students find being around another person all of the time very hard to adjust to. The Academy tries to help this problem by giving each student a short interests survey when signing up to make matches more bearable. But even if you admire your roommate, being around them all of the time can be frustrating.
One thing to do is to plan your class schedules so that, as often as possible, when one person is in class the other is out. This should give 3-4 hours of solo time per day. There are also quiet places in Ownes Library and the second and third floors of the Union.
