<p>Single room or Double or triple dorm room?Which one is better?Pros and cons of these choices....</p>
<p>Honestly, it depends on you. Single means no roommate, which means lots of quiet, better sleep, and more privacy, but it can get lonely. Double you’re sharing with one person. Triple means more roommates to hang out with, but depending on your school could mean bunked/lofted beds. There’s usually a price difference between the three as well.</p>
<p>Personally, I’d say the best option is a single, but that’s certainly not true for everyone.</p>
<p>Definitely would not recommend a single. A friend’s dgt is miserable, she has a single - has made very few friends and sleeps in her room much of the time, not doing much of anything. My DD put it to me this way, if you have a dbl you either love your roomie or hate them. If you love them, you hang out, become friends, do things together. If you hate them, then it forces you out of the room where you have the opportunity to meet others. With a triple they seem crowded and there is always that extra person that is on the outs. Just my opinion on any of these.</p>
<p>I’m going with a double next year. I feel with a single, while you do have more privacy etc. I may get a bit lonely since I’m not overtly outgoing. I never thought of a double the way lammb66 described it but given more thought, I could see how that could be true. As for a triple, I often hear that two roommates will become close and one will feel a bit left out. Depending on the school triples aren’t bigger than doubles, so space will likely be an issue. Where I plan to attend triples are a temporary option so you will have to be de-tripled once a space opens up, and I see this as a negative because it’s for the most part random. You have to move mid year after you’ve already become established so if you are leaning towards a triple make sure this is a permanent option for your school.</p>
<p>What about suite style dorms. 4 people sharing suite with common area (living room)?Do they get single bedroom though? Is bathroom attached to the suite in such case?</p>
<p>Suites will differ by school and dorm. Generally speaking, yes, there’s a bathroom attached to the living room. The suites (and mini-suites) here are mostly double and triple rooms. Upsides of suites are not having public bathrooms (hooray!), downside is that floors tend to be quieter and you might not meet as many people, since there’s more doors and people have their own little living space. They also tend to be a bit pricier than normal rooms.</p>
<p>@ coralblue: I lived in a suite style dorm. No, you don’t get a single room, they’re shared (and also, suite-style dorm rooms can have as many as 6 or 9 people. In the case of a 6-person suite, it’s 3 rooms to a suite, and in a 9-person suite, it tends to be 4 rooms to a suite, with one of the rooms being a triple), unless your roommate moves out for any reason and housing doesn’t provide you with another roommate. The bathroom is attached to one of the bedrooms in the suite (often the bigger bedroom) in that people in the bigger bedroom just have to go through a doorway to get to the bathroom, while people in the smaller bedroom not attached to the bathroom have to leave their room entirely to get to the bathroom. The suite-style dorm I lived in was arranged so that I had to go through a door that led to the sinks, and then another door that leads to the toilet and shower.</p>
<p>Single bedroom so no one can assassinate you in your sleep. Also make sure that you have a window that can be covered, and make sure that the ground outside the window is safe for an escape (i.e. not a swamp land infested with alligators) </p>
<p>Get a night vision scope or make sure that you you have ample lighting outside your window at all times, avoid thermal vision goggles for escape applications because they will not detect cold blooded critters such as alligators and pythons, I know because I tried. </p>
<p>Try to get a fire escape ladder in case someone tries to compromise the security of the room, and a door stopper rated for at least 6,000 pounds of force.</p>
<p>If you do decide to live with others, make sure to do a background check on them and their affiliates, make sure you know exactly who you are dealing with. Consider using Microsoft Visio to map out the floor plan and survey which hallways have the most foot traffic and when to avoid illnesses.</p>
<p>What thermal imaging goggles might be useful for in your case is to survey the walls of your room and hallway for any bugs, also get a spectrum analyzer in case someone tries to jam the cell phone signal so you can detect the person and alert the feds.</p>
<p>The suites at the college where I will be attending are solely doubles and triples, 4 people (two bedrooms) share a private bathroom which can only be accessed through one of the two rooms ( so it is not attached to the common area) it’s a small bathroom with only one toilet, one sink, and one shower. there is however a common area and a kitchen on each floor.</p>
<p>All but 1of our dorms have suites. There is 4 rooms in the suite and 2 people in each room. Unless there is a RA in the suite then they get their own. People living in A and B share a bathroom that has a toilet and tub/shower. People living in C and D have a toilet and just a shower but their rooms are bigger than A and B rooms. So their is 7 or 8 people sharing the suite area that has a kitchen area and sofa. The other dorm has single rooms but no one wants to stay in them for a number of reasons. I like suite dorms better then any other except when the whole suite gets fined for one person then that just sucks.</p>
<p>I’m getting a single my first year, it’s already been made up in my mind. I’m not a sharing type of person and I get irritated when things aren’t exactly how I want sometimes; especially in my room. Having a single doesn’t mean you’ll be lonely; TRUST ME! Even if you aren’t sociable you’ll make friends. Whether its from your classes, or just people on your floor. When people find out you have a single they’ll want to stay in your room all the time to get away from THEIR roommate. ALSO, you can have whoever over whenever you want at all times. Just prop your door open the first day you move in, people will drop by to speak all the time.</p>