Maine Hall and Winthrop Hall residents are preparing for the move to the renovated Moore Hall and Coleman Hall, respectively, at the end of the semester.
Director of Residential Life Kim Pacelli said Wednesday that all plans for the move are going well.
Maine and Winthrop residents are looking forward to the move to the renovated dorms.
"Students are kind of excited for the move—to be in a new dorm next semester," said Winthrop Head Proctor Kristen van der Veen '07.
Pacelli said that the inside of the renovated dorms look much like Appleton and Hyde.
"The hall-style layout of Moore and Coleman are intact, but other than that, the buildings are virtually unrecognizable from before," she said. "Most specifically the buildings have elevators, laundry, and better common space than before. The bathroom configurations are virtually identical to Appleton and Hyde."
"In Coleman and Moore the rooms on the end of the building are bigger than the ones in the center," she said, so five rooms will house five students each. Every other room in the dorms will be a quad.
The new arrangement necessitates new roommates, since doubles and triples currently make up Winthrop and Maine.
"Students will keep their same roommates," explained Pacelli. "By and large, students are pairing up with one other room and moving into a new room together."
Not all students are excited about the move, though.
"I really enjoy living in a double, and I think I'd prefer living in a two-room double than a three-room quad," said first-year Bryce Spalding of Maine Hall.
Others worry that the move will interfere with their preparation for finals.
"It's comfortable here," said Shavonne Lord '10 of Maine Hall. "I don't want to pack up all of my stuff."
Residential Life has hired a moving company to move students' belongings to their new residences to alleviate that anxiety.
"Res Life appears to be organized and they are doing a great job with communicating information about the move with us," said Winthrop resident Nate Allukian '10.
Once the exodus is complete, work on Maine and Winthrop will commence. The renovation is scheduled to be finished over the summer, in time for use by the Class of 2011.
Pacelli also addressed another concern regarding spring housing.
"Thankfully the housing situation for spring '07 is not as dire as it was last spring and we have enough housing for students returning," Pacelli said, referencing last year's spring housing crunch, when several returning juniors had to move into open rooms in first-year dorms.
"Students will be scattered throughout campus in rooms that are being vacated by fellow juniors who are departing for a spring semester abroad," she said.
Lydia Deutsch contributed to this report.