If last year was any indication of upcoming trends, it looks like freshmen might have to prepare themselves for some tight living quarters. Over-occupied triples are the university’s solution to too many incoming freshmen.

While dorm life is already a struggle for some students — sharing a relatively small room with one other person — it becomes even more of a problem when three students are expected to inhabit the same-sized space.

Not only do the students have to share their living space, but they also have to share furniture as well. Unlike normal doubles or triples which have a desk, bed and closet for each student, over-occupied rooms may only have two desks.

Victoria Wiley, a sophomore, lived in an over-occupied triple last year and had to manage without her own desk for a semester.

“We had two desks in the beginning of the semester,” Wiley said, “but I was the one with no desk. It seemed to be easier to have everything you could physically fit and just be cramped.”

Wiley said that the best thing to do to save space is to buy things like racks and hooks for the walls and desks. Buying extra storage items is a great idea because the room will not be equipped with storage for all of the personal items of three people.

Wiley said that changing the room around helped to take away from the claustrophobic feel of the room.

“I kept everything fresh when it was a triple. I always moved our furniture around and had space-saving gadgets.”

In the end, Wiley said it was not as bad as some people make it out to be. As long as you make the space your own and keep it interesting you can sometimes forget how crammed in everything really is.

“We decorated stuff — it was homey, which made it not so bad.”