More and more colleges are building dorms with suites that consist of four or five tiny bedrooms and a private bathroom and possibly a kitchenette too. There's something very attractive about this arrangement.
One word of caution: if you live in a suite, you will be the one doing the cleaning.
I think that a kid would be really really lucky if he found himself in one of these suite arrangements and did half the cleaning while the other roommates (all put together) shared the other half of the bathroom cleaning.
It's no big deal to clean up after yourself. It's not even too bad to clean up after your siblings, since you know that they have their own chores where they're cleaning up after you. (Besides, there's this Mom-Ogre who doesn't let anybody give themselves over to utterly gross sloppiness.) But it's harder to clean up after roommates who fully believe in Bathroom Fairies and Kitchenette House-Elves who magically take care of all their messes.
Now, that doesn't mean that suites are a bad idea. There are certain huge benefits to that dorm-arrangement. But those who choose it should not anticipate that others will do their share of cleaning, or even participate in what would normally be considered simply picking up after themselves.
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That's odd. There are people in this house that fervently believe in the Bathroom fairy and Kitchen House-Elf. :p
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