So, you’ve been placed in a traditional suite. The world is over. You can feel the panic creeping in, and your roommates are random, so you don’t know who you’ll spend the next nine months with. Well, two random suitemates turned friends are writing this for you, so know it’s not all catastrophic.

Every tour of Washington University finds its way to the South 40. Prospective students stop at the Clocktower, are shown a modern double, and likely — if you are like either of us — admire how new and nice it is.

However, hidden from every prospective student — and even from some less adventurous first-years — are the traditional dorms.

Residential Life announced that it would convert approximately 75 percent of its six-person suites on the South 40 into four-person suites Jan. 30.

It wasn’t the food, the academics or the beautiful campus that sold me first; it was the appeal of “modern dorms.”

You got a traditional double? You panic. “I—I didn’t even tour a traditional! It was my fourth choice after all of the moderns! Why do bad things only happen to me?”