<p>SDRL,
I just picked up on your comment that you are sometimes too depressed to go to the dining hall? Is your depression the reason that you want a medical single? do you make it to your classes/work study,etc.? In that event you should be able to bring food back to your single from dining facilities as long as you are out and about any way, even if you are not in the frame of mind to contemplate eating in the dining hall. And, as others noted, you can always keep a supply of basics in your room.</p>
<p>Also, don’t i recall that you joined a sorority a while ago? Are any of your sorority sisters able to help you? Is there any sorority housing available?</p>
<p>I dunno how you’ll function after graduating with this entitlement complex. You’re not any better than the freshmen, just older. Get a small fridge/microwave and consider in the future to rent a single apartment from a landlord if you really can’t stand living with someone.</p>
<p>I didn’t end up joining the sorority. And even if I had, they don’t have a house/</p>
<p>My school doesn’t allow you to live off campus unless you live at home. Not that it matters anyway since there’s no safe housing nearby.</p>
<p>My school also doesn’t allow you to “buy out” a double. All rooms in all dorms cost the same, and all rooms in all apartments cost the same.</p>
<p>I am bipolar, and not yet stable…so living with someone is quite hard for me because I have a lot of ups and downs.</p>
<p>Oh, and bipolar is covered under the ADA, so once I enter the “real world” I will still be able to get accommodations because it’s required by law!!</p>
<p>But you ARE getting accommodations. Accommodations means they do the best they can for you within the confines of their rules. Accommodations does NOT mean bending to your every whim.</p>
<p>romani – I was responding to this: “You are graduating in a year, into the cold, cruel world where you will not always get accommodations for your emotional illness” NOT you. Did you even actually read the thread, or did you just respond to what you wanted to respond to?</p>
<p>Even if you are entitled to accommodations under the ADA, they may not be what you think they are. You’re entitled to potentially alter your break or work schedule (work later in the day or earlier in the morning, take 2 short breaks versus 1 long one), potentially take LOAs during months you are depressed, or have a desk that is dark/quiet or near a window. </p>
<p>You’re not entitled to getting hired, keeping your job, or getting promoted. If you express the attitude from this during the interview process or at our job, you will have a hard time keeping it because you will create a toxic work environment. Even if you say you cannot be fired for your disorder, you can be let go due to ‘poor work performance.’ The real world isn’t as black and white as you seem to think it is</p>
<p>Even with whatever accommodations you are given as far as work environment, you are still expected to complete your workload on time and at a certain standard; for example, if you are a nurse or a teacher or an engineer, you are still expected to perform at the same level as your peers.</p>
<p>Get whatever help you can–therapy as well as medication–to help you learn to cope and function in a full immersion environment.</p>
<p>Employers’ accommodations won’t extend to making sure you eat, and they won’t make an exception for you if some days you can’t get out of bed/go out in the world and go to work, because if you aren’t there, your job is not going to get done.</p>
<p>Please don’t take this as my not being sympathetic-- I am–but you also need to get beyond thinking that you will be as protected in real life as you will while you are in school.</p>
<p>It is the job or residential life to “put heads in beds”. While they would like to make everyone as happy as possible, sometimes it is not always possible. They have a placement for you. While it is not ideal for your personally, it is a placement and placement equals “heads in beds”.</p>
<p>"Oh, and bipolar is covered under the ADA, so once I enter the “real world” I will still be able to get accommodations because it’s required by law!! "</p>
<p>Yeah, and age discrimination is illegal by law too, yet happening constantly to workers who are just shy of being ready to retire… Employers have very clever ways of working juuust inside of “legal” but still get what they want…</p>