Although the results of the fourth and final housing lottery were met with varying degrees of satisfaction, every student on campus found a bed for the upcoming school year in the end.
Juniors Kathleen Blue and Morgane Richert, who received the first pick in Wednesday night's doubles and open rooms lottery, chose to live in the three-room double of Osher Hall.
"We'll have two singles and a common room," said Blue. "I'm so excited, I didn't even know [the room] existed."
"We got really lucky for once," said Richert, who added that she has "had some trouble [with the lottery] the past two years."
Juniors Sean Bishop and Aaron O'Callahan drew the fifth pick in the lottery and chose to live in Brunswick K. Brunswick doubles were extremely popular this year and had all been snapped up before the lottery was even halfway through.
"We heard it was recently renovated, so it seemed like a good choice," said O'Callahan.
Bishop and O'Callahan noted that the lottery seemed to be running smoothly, and said that the students who were helping to run the process were "really helpful" and quick to volunteer information about the rooms. The pair also observed that the organizers seemed concerned with how long the selection process was taking, as the lottery ran nearly three hours.
"We were getting rushed by [Associate Director of Housing Operations] Lisa Rendall," O'Callahan said. "We heard that other people were getting rushed, too."
As the night progressed, fewer and fewer students left the lottery pleased with their housing arrangements for next year.
Sophomores Daniel Dickstein and Peter Woods received lottery number 50 and chose to live on the fifth floor of Osher, returning to the building where they spent their first year at the College.
"I just can't believe I'm living in a freshman dorm as a junior," said Dickstein. "I'm going to be 21, I won't be able to throw parties—not that I was really planning on throwing parties."
Dickstein also stated that unsatifactory outcomes—such as his own situation—ought to prompt a reconsideration of the way in which the Office of Residential Life prioritizes housing for students who plan to spend their entire junior year on campus.
"It's hard because I'm not going to be studying abroad; I'm here for the whole year and I just think there should be some kind of system that helps out students who don't study abroad versus students who do study abroad," he said. "At the same time though, I understand that they don't want to discourage people from studying abroad."
"We're just looking forward to re-living the freshman dream," Woods said.
First year Mitchell Fabricant—who had lottery pick number 69—will be living with three other students in what is typically a Stowe Inn quint. Fabricant said that he and his block got housing that was "lucky relative to our pick, but not to the general lottery."
"We got lucky because Lisa Rendall said there is an 85 percent chance that we won't get another roommate because she would feel bad sticking one person into a quad," he said.
Ultimately, though, Fabricant said he was generally dissatisfied with the lottery process.
"I had to wait way too long," he said. "They should have it online."
The doubles and open rooms lottery on Wednesday was the culmination of yet another year of housing selection. On Monday evening, 156 students attended the triples and singles lottery, at which 189 beds were made available. Any spots that went unselected were then placed into the open rooms lottery.
First year Erik Bertin, who managed to secure a triple in Brunswick Apartments P, said he was pleased with the overall process.
"I am very happy," he said. "It was our first choice because we have a lot of friends who are also in Brunswick [Apartments] and we had always wanted to live near them."
"I have no complaints as to the system as a whole," Bertin added. "I went to a boarding school...and this system is a lot more fair than the system I am used to."
-Sarah Levin contributed to this report.