<p>I have a single room and it's a little depressing that I won't have the experience of a roommate. Can anyone shed some light who had a single room? Do you feel like you missed out? A single room would have it's perks but it is more expensive so idk basically I'm deciding if I want to appeal.</p>
<p>I had a single room for the first quarter of my freshman year and it was great. I still made plenty of friends, but unlike a lot of them who had at least minor problems with their roommates, I got to go back to my room in peace. I definitely don’t feel like I missed out on anything.</p>
<p>BUT, I also enjoy alone time a lot more than most people. I guess it depends on your personality.</p>
<p>Why didn’t you stay in a single room after the first quarter?
Thanks for the reply.
I do enjoy a lot of alone time but once I start college it’d be nice to have someone always there if I had a roommate.</p>
<p>Well I was technically in a double room, but didn’t have a roommate (she never showed up at move-in). So I was in what they called a “super single”. One perk was that I was still paying the lower double room rate. About midway through winter quarter though, they assigned me a roommate.</p>
<p>I wouldn’t know what it’s like to start out with a roommate, but I can tell you that once I had a taste for living alone, it really sucked to adjust to living with another person. I just liked that if I needed distance or quiet time to study (or sleep haha), I could do it without thinking of anyone else. </p>
<p>However, if the price is taken into consideration, and you really want that roommate experience (I must admit that it was a valuable experience, even if I hated it), then I would consider trying to switch. I’m just saying that if you can’t switch rooms for whatever reason, I wouldn’t be too disappointed. I’m sure you’ll still be able to make friends. Keep your door open, talk to people in your hall and you shouldn’t have that much trouble :)</p>
<p>Honestly, a Single Room is sooooooooooooooo nice! It’s completely worth the higher price not having to worry about roommate problems AND have privacy. After hearing so many stories from friends about problems with their roommate(s), I only preferred a single or a double if I had a good friend that was my roommate. Plus, if you ever get a Girlfriend, she’ll appreciate the fact that you have a single.</p>
<p>I really wish if my parents would have agreed to let me have a single room. A roommate is only cool if you get really lucky. My roommate was crazy and wouldn’t wake up when her alarms (yes that’s plural!!!) went off every morning, so I had to yell at her to wake up, only to have her turn it off, fall asleep again, and 5 minutes later go through the whole process again. The total time this took every morning was like half on hour and I couldn’t sleep when she had 20 alarms to wake up for her 8 am and I had a 12:30 that day. It seriously was the worst thing ever. Some people get really lucky and love their roommates, some hate their roommates and switch into a room with friends. Personally, I wish I could have just avoided the drama and gotten a single. You’ll still meet plenty of people and you have the privacy to change/ come out of the shower without being awk. You have a whole room to yourself whenever you need it and you never know when you may. That’s just my point of view! </p>
<p>ps: my roommate would also leave the liquid from cup noodles in the cup around the room because she was too lazy to throw it away and it would like…ferment and the room smelled like rotten food. I WISH my parents would have let me had a single. Not everyone has such bad roommate experiences as mine, a lot of people love or at least get along with their roommates. But from my experience, if I could have gotten a single, knowing what I know now, I would.</p>
<p>I had a double and a pretty bad “roommate experience.” Sometimes people become best friends with their roommates, sometimes people hate them forever. I didn’t like my roommate very much, but I made friends with a lot of people on my floor. One of my best friends lived in a single. The trick is to keep your door open a lot, do something interesting like play music (softly) or be eating candy or something. People will wander the halls and come into your room when they’re bored or when they want to rant about homework/exams or when they want someone to go to the dining hall with them. I know some people in singles who rarely emerged, but as long as you make an effort to socialize, you’ll make friends and you’ll enjoy the privacy of your single when you’re sick of people. Oh, and if you’re keeping your door open, decorate your room nicely. (: One of the girls on my floor had a single and she would leave her door cracked and you could see she had all these little origami butterflies stuck on her walls. It was so cool</p>
<p>I agree with juliejuu I lived in a double for two years and I never became friends with my roommates as long as u keep your door open especially for the first couple of weeks you’ll be able to make friends</p>
<p>Why didn’t any of you say something to your roommates? I think its worse to not say anything and talk bad about them behind their back than address the problem. I plan to do that with whomever rooms with me… get to know them and let them know right away what ****es me off, and hopefully they’d be honest and do the same which would be easier to avoid having a long, drawn out quarter of secretly being mad about the things your roommate does. I do this with my boyfriend, and boy does that work!</p>
<p>Poor boyfriend! Hahahaha :P</p>
<p>I’m kiddin’, I think that’s actually really good. I thought I was getting along with my roommate first quarter, then with each progressive month it just got worse. It reached a point where I wanted to throw his ass out the window (I put one guy through a window but that wasn’t out of a roommate issue XD) but even after talking to him he just responded with his usual disrespectful “deal with it” attitude. Eventually though he actually moved out into another building that he was going to be in the next year, so I had the room to myself for the last month or so of school.</p>
<p>AMAZING feeling.</p>
<p>I have a double mainly because of the price and the opportunities to meet more people, but that’s about it. I ain’t worrying about bringing a girl to my room. We have the forest for that, hahahaha!</p>
<p>PhantomBMAN:
Hey!! lol 
Your room mate was that bad to you??? How rude!!! I am hoping I do not get a room mate like that… Your lucky he moved out of the building! must have been a great last month! I think you can talk to the RA’s and have the roommates relocated?</p>
<p>I kind of think the talking to your roommate should go both ways… like they should be able to talk to you about things you do that irritates them. I am hoping they would, instead of talking crap lol Its much easier to fix if you know what your doing rather than hearing it</p>
<p>The thing is is that people tend to be passive aggressive when they have problems with their roommates. My roommates never brought anything to my attention, so if they were having problems with what I was doing, they would just act cold and we ended up giving each other the silent treatment. Dealing with another person who may have a completely different attitude or personality isn’t always as simple as “just talk it out”.
I had friends down the hall from me who had the most stubborn roommate ever. They would talk to her and bring up problems and solutions, but all she would ever do was say “too bad” and make up excuses as to why she was right and they were wrong.</p>
<p>My point is: you never know what kind of person you’ll end up with. Sure, they could be nice and understanding. Or they could be hard-headed and rude…</p>
<p>At which point you bash their head into the wa–I mean…uh…</p>
<p>Well I hate to bring up past memories :P</p>
<p>Regardless of who you get missy you’ll be fine. Though I know full well how vicious ladies can be ^_^</p>