<p>Ok so i got my housing contract today. I am in S Quad honors which is good cept i got stuck with an economy triple. I requested a double and to be honest, i am REALLY not happy about paying OOS tuition (40k a year no aid no scholarships) to get crammed into a small room with 2 other people i dont know. I know thats big university college life, but i am still not happy about it.</p>
<p>I am going to call housing tomorrow and see what they can do, but i was wondering if you guys think i'll have success.</p>
<p>Sorry to hear that. When you did apply for housing? I applied 2 weeks after they sent me the email notice. I'm placed in a double room at Baits I . It looks pretty look on the Web site. I am instate btw.</p>
<p>Check out the Room Swap boards, and Room Reassignment bulletin boards on the housing site. As an incoming frosh you are elegible to use both of these if you don't like the housing that you were oringally assigned to.</p>
<p>I was put in this situation. If you don't sign/return your university housing contract, you can do a "contract reassignment". Basically if upperclassmen have university housing contracts and want to move off-campus, they have to reassign their contract to a freshman without a signed housing contract. I did this and was lucky enough to get a double on the 5th floor of South Quad right above the Honors college, and I actually lived next to two guys who were in a bunch of my classes. Although when you do the reassignment, you really only know which dorm and room type (I just got lucky with specific location within SQ).</p>
<p>I did a reassignment a few weeks ago. I got a single in the dorm I wanted (as a freshman). However, I would hop on it fast because a couple of other threads have discussed the same thing.</p>
<p>Don't worry about your room assignments too much. You are only going to sleep in your room. You will do most of your studying in libraries and the rest of the time, you will be hanging out.</p>
<p>For the most part, your roommates are more important than your room type. With two roommates, you've got a better shot at getting along with one of them.</p>
<p>Right, but it's also likely that two roommates will get along better than they do with the other one, creating an unhealthy 2 v 1 situation.</p>
<p>My friends who were in econo triples didn't say it was that bad, but since I personally do all my homework and studying in my room, I really wanted a double over an economy triple.</p>
<p>You may change your mind about studying in the room in South Quad. Need I mention that some of the nation's best quasi-professional athletes live there, and while they by and large are great kids, are not known generally for their quiet introspection? </p>
<p>In my college days, I quickly learned to make office hours at the library, spend high intensity time studying there, and leave the dorm room to just having fun and goofing off. And in the spirit of not offending scholarship athletes, it might be good to know that's exactly what I was - and I knew all too well how noise level and chicanery could accelerate from 0-60 in that kind of environment. I was the cause of some of it. The library in a quiet area in the stacks suited me fine - learned to treat studying like a job with set hours - did me wonders.</p>