<p>I am a current student at UC Davis who works with housing for transfer students. I transferred to UC Davis last year. I'm trying to figure out how transfers want to live within student housing.</p>
<p>Would like to live in an apartment?
in your own room or share a room?
on or off campus?
How would you feel about having an RA? (not in your apartment, just in the complex)</p>
<p>Have you looked at different forms of transfer housing and thought something was cool?
What do you want from living in student housing as a transfer student?</p>
<p>I am looking at student apartments. UCI has various communities that are for single undergrads. They studio/one bedroom places. I personally am not willing to live anywhere where I have to share an apartment or room especially. I have lived on my own for 4 years (until this last year I moved home for $$ reasons), and I feel like I am beyond the roomie thing. I am looking for a place that offers a flat rate that includes utilities. Some of the apartments I have looked include utilities including internet and are furnished. It would also be nice to be really close to campus.</p>
<p>As for me, I am transferring next Fall and I would like to have my own room but I think sharing would be best for me so I have an excuse to get to know people better. I want to stay in a dorm or on campus because I want the experience and I have never lived on my own yet.</p>
<p>from transfer housing, i would just like to be treated like the adult i am, like no RAs. also, if they did have single rooms available, i would love that. i’ve been in dorms and apartments, and i have to say that apartment style is MUCH better</p>
<p>I would rather be alone because then I don’t have to worry about roommates and their bedtimes and lifestyle not matching mine. If I want to socialize, I can invite people over or go out! :)</p>
<p>Trust me, Roommates are handy to have around sometimes. I don’t know what I would do without mine and its not that bad meeting new people. I mean its college. Cmon.</p>
<p>I’ve actually been in a dorm before and roommates are not for me! Half the time they didn’t clean, they were loud, etc. Meeting new people is fun but you don’t need to live with people to do that! :)</p>
<p>I was actually looking into studio apartments near UCD, with some luck. It’s not that I don’t like other people…but it’s not like I want an additional source of potential stress when I’ll already be dealing with adjusting to a new city and school. There are plenty of ways to meet new people on a college campus without having to share your living space, y’know?</p>
<p>I’d love to have my own room, but have maybe two or three apartment or dorm mates that the school matches me with. I really like the style of the Multifaith community apartments near campus, if you know what that is. I want to have opportunities to meet people but sharing a room would be pretty rough. Close to campus is preferrable, but on campus is fine too. I don’t really mind that part. I would actually prefer an RA in the complex. Apartment managers are much harder to deal with when something breaks and apartment managers don’t organize events.</p>
<p>I currently live in student housing for families at UCD. It is made of single family apartment units complete with kitchen, bathroom, patio, etc. I really like it, actually. We do have a couple of RA’s and they are there to receive our complaints about noise, smoking, suspicious activities, etc. However the best thing about having the RA is he or she is available when you lock yourself out. I never thought it would happen to me but it did. The doors where I live are self-locking. So even though you can come outside without a problem, once the door closes you need a key to get back in. One doesn’t really think about these things right? I went to take the garbage out but sidn’t bring my key Luckily, I had my phone on me and I called the RA and she was there in 15 minutes. </p>
<p>Our community has a lot of social activities so it can be fun. So we live alone but we have ways of socializing. It works. I wish that it was available for more transfer single undergrads though. A lot of them worked really hard while going to school and are probably used to living alone. I see a lot of freshman determined to have a roomate but more experienced, wordly, and older adults would prefer to be by themselves, in my opinion. I have noticed that they are building more dorms near Segundo but the university might take a look into building single room/bathroom/kitchenette areas for single transfer undergrads. They can socialize while having the one thing adults like most. . .privacy.</p>
<p>I am so sorry but christian612’s response is absolutely hilarious
I suppose I would rather live in a car or a closet WITH privacy than a dorm with some stranger snoring while I’m studying or dealing with obnoxious people who’ve never lived on their own.</p>
<p>If I get into UCLA, I wanna share an apartment with my friends already there (= !
If not, then I wanna dorm on campus (= just so I can experience dorm life hehe.
I would love to share a place… triple or double would be fine. I just hope I like my roommates )= and I hope they’re nice and clean… I just cannot have messy roommates T__T.</p>
Luckily, I had my phone on me and I called the RA and she was there in 15 minutes. </p>