Three weeks into the semester, nearly all of the students who were placed with resident assistants because of the housing shortage have moved into new rooms.

But about 800 students remain in supplemental housing, Associate Housing Director Lynn Dubois said.

Two of the 43 RAs who had freshman roommates three weeks ago still live with them, she said.

"All of the freshmen with RA roommates have been offered new rooms, and two just haven't moved out yet," Dubois said.

Brittany Malcolm (freshman-division of undergraduate studies), who lived in East Halls with a roommate who was an RA, said she just moved out last weekend.

"I just moved across the hall with a girl who didn't have a roommate," Malcolm said, adding that she is happy to be living with another first-year student now.

"I'm relieved to know that I won't have to move again," she said. "I feel more relaxed about everything."

Carrie Adams (freshman-education), who still lives in a supplemental room in Pollock Halls with seven roommates, said that she is content living there but might want to move to a regular room eventually.

"We still get along pretty well," she said. "But it's tough working around each other's schedules and people sleeping at different times."

Dubois said a survey would be sent out this week to students currently living in supplemental to find out which students want to move into a double room.

"We're finding that some of the students want to stay in their supplemental rooms," she said.

She added that Housing could begin to move students out of supplemental next week.

"As soon as students get the survey back to us, we'll be able to start moving students based on the replies we get," she said.

"Probably by next Wednesday, we'll start to be able to move people who want to move," she added.

Adams said that when she gets the survey, she will probably prefer to stay in her current room.

"For the most part, I did get really lucky for who I'm rooming with," she said.

But Adams said she would probably want to move into a double room in the spring.

"Just to get the feel of what a two-person room is like," she said. "But I don't want to get stuck over in East Halls now that I've been in Pollock."

Dubois said that all of the students who lived with RAs would be moved into double rooms with other first-year students.

"Everybody can't be moved out of supplemental, but this will give us the opportunity to move as many persons as we can who want to move," Dubois said.

Brandon Armstrong (sophomore-food science) said that he was moved out of his supplemental room two weeks ago.

"I just got a thing in the mail," Armstrong said. "They shut off my Internet and everything, so I had to move."

Armstrong said he was happy to move into a double room.

"Privacy is amazing," he said. "It was really awkward in the old room during the morning -- guys with no shirts on just walking around the room."

Penn State spokesman Bill Mahon said the process was completed very quickly, as was anticipated by the university.

The university has a good formula to determine how many students are going to live on campus, he said. Mahon said the university overbooks rooms so more students are able to get on-campus housing.

"We've been through this every year," Mahon said. "The rooms are overbooked with the idea that it won't be that way for very long."

Dubois said students who came to University Park from colleges and universities affected by Hurricane Katrina were placed at the end of the list of students to be moved out of supplemental housing.