<p>Are you concerned about housing?
Worried about potential roommate conflicts?
Scared silly at the thought of sharing living space with complete strangers? </p>
<p>Share your worst fears and concerns here!</p>
<p>(You'll feel better, trust me.)</p>
<p>lol DEF angst here...</p>
<p>I'm sure I'll get a great roomate...Princeton seems to be quite adept at picking incredible people to attend (so far everyone I've spoken to has been unbelievably friendly).</p>
<p>The issue is more what to actually put on the housing form for me. I have 10 days (and some of you less) to decide how many roomates I want, what my ideal roomate would be like, etc...I must admit it's somewhat stressful.</p>
<p>(on a more random note...you can see I'm a huge fan of elipses)</p>
<p>I still haven't gotten my forms yet :(
The angst is building...
My main concern (don't laugh) is bunk beds: I hate 'em. Is there a check box for that? How can I avoid them? Is there any hope? Maybe a doctor's note certifying both claustrophobia (bottom) and fear of heights (top). :)</p>
<p>Lol no there's no checkbox, but the bunk beds are easily disassembled (I'll help ya if ya need it). The freshmen I stayed with during april hosting took their bunk bed apart and created two elevated beds - one on each side of the room.</p>
<p>My brother and his roomate had two elevated beds too. He and his roommate got along fine, even though they aren't good friends and my brother now rooms with other kids. I hope I'll be more lucky ... or at least AS lucky ...</p>
<p>just a warning, certain rooms NEED bunkbeds, theres literally no other way to fit two beds into the room. The most common of these rooms are the quads in Witherspoon, although lots of the other rocky/mathey quads have the same problem</p>
<p>Bentley - If in fact this is a condition that a doctor can certify you should get a letter and send it in. Princeton may be able to accomodate you. There are, for example, some singles for freshmen etc.</p>
<p>hm.. I haven't even gotten my housing form yet. I'm not too worried about roommates and stuff - I've roomed away from home before, and I figure there's a greater chance of a good one than an awful one. I'm a little afraid I'll get a totally incompatible roommate, but I'll deal with that if it happens, lol. I do hope I get a room that is big enough to disassemble bunk beds though.</p>
<p>what do ya all think is more ideal: a double (one roomate) or a quad? I'm having quite a hard time deciding...</p>
<p>hmmm... what were the three criteria about our roommates that we had to rank? I already sent it in and can't remember... wasn't it substance-free, number of roommates, and...?</p>
<p>and.... single sex.</p>
<p>I'm definately getting angsty about the rooming. I'm an only child and really used to a lot of space and silence. So I checked both sub free and single sex, since I figure girls are quieter than guys and sober people are quiter than drunk ones. What do you guys think... double or quad? I'm leaning towards quad, actually, since I heard it's more living space per capita because of the common room and I figure that since sleeping space and study space is separated into bedroom/commonroom, I can go to my bed when I need to be alone. What do you think?</p>
<p>you can share a room with a girl?</p>
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<p>well, ill proly do a quad. I think we're all in the same boat in terms of sharing space with people... I'm used to having a ton of space, too. but, we'll see.the last thing i want is to live in a single.</p>
<p>Oh, I would heart a single, but I wouldn't be likely to get one so I'm not checking that box.</p>
<p>And no, you can't live in a room with someone of the opposite sex, just on a floor or hall with them. So single sex means you live with all your room neighbors being of your sex.</p>
<p>I personally am thinking either quad or more. Not a double just in case I get that horror-story roommate (and not one of the fine CC people :p).<br>
I wouldn't mind a single terribly much, but eh, I think part of the college experience is learning to live with other people.</p>
<p>Current Princeton students/other people who know: Do you know of any advantages of picking a quad over an even bigger room? Picking a bigger room over a quad?</p>
<p>I think I'm going to request a quad.
I've been switching back and forth lately between quad and double though. I really don't know.</p>
<p>I'm with Cautious: there's gotta be at least one roommate that loves me. XP</p>
<p>I'm almost certainly not going for single-sex, primarily because my (prospective) major happens to be a bit more popular among guys, and I'll definitely need someone close by for help w/ problem sets or something. XD As for sub-free... I really don't know... it'll be nice to live quiet and clean, but going by the previous argument, probably not.</p>
<p>As for singles.... my interviewer told me her wonderful story: she and her friends took over an entire row (floor?) of singles. Sure hope I get to do that sometime. ;)</p>
<p>quirkily: I'm in the same boat. I'll probably end up opting for the quad though...having a common area is definitely a plus.</p>
<p>Cautious: True, in a double you could get stuck with the nightmare roomate, but in a quad, you're increasing your chances of sharing space with that nightmare roomate. THERE'S NO ESCAPE...hehe</p>
<p>jaskid: actually, I'd disagree. If you decide not to go for the common/bed rooms setup, then you get at least two alternatives as to whom to stick with... and if you do go for that setup, you've got at least two people who'll suffer with you (share the suffering! Make it better!) ;)</p>
<p>you can request a single, lots of freshman esp in wilson/butler/forbes get singles. Several in mathey do as well, although rocky singles are hard to come by for anyone. As for single sex/sub free, I don;t think that any of the single sex areas are subfree (i know 1915 isnt), also just because its subfree doesnt mean quieter. I know that 1939 this year has a bunch of ppl who are in a capella groups who sing in their rooms a lot, as well as someone who plays a string instrument and practices. Also subfree just means that there can't be any parties IN the dorm, but people are free to drink and come home late drunk as long as they dont throw up in the bathrooms.</p>
<p>99.9% of the quads at princeton are a common room and 2 doubles, there are maybe one or two which only have 2 rooms (a bed room and a common room) and a handful that either have 4 bedrooms and no common room or 4 bedrooms and a common room... If you don't like one of youre roomies, a quad is a much better place to be</p>
<p>sky: fair enough. In truth, I opted for the quad for similar reasons (my post was more of a jab at the idea of roomate anxiety in general - though I understand it totally and feel some myself, rather than a reasoned argument).</p>