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?”