<p>Very important. I think I’m aiming for a single next year.</p>
<p>That was interesting to see how many/most of you wanted singles. </p>
<p>Don’t get me wrong, having personal space is really important–but I don’t want to force my parents to their financial limits. Luckily, my roommate is nearly always out and about so I do get quiet time. We also happen to get along really well. I’m glad it works out for me. </p>
<p>The best part is that the double we had soph year was the cheapest place on campus! It also included ALL the utilities! But for this year we’re actually paying 50$ MORE (not including utilities) We also get a MUCH smaller room…I wish I got off the housing waitlist, 3rd years don’t have guaranteed housing. </p>
<p>I’m just gonna try and stay optimistic for this year!</p>
<p>I don’t understand the whole need for single. I kind of like hustle and bustle that comes with roommates. And there is absolutely no way I’m paying a few hundred bucks more a month for a place to retreat. I have my car if I need something.</p>
<p>My roommate was just a toxic person who was dictator over our room and would burst into tears if I made any attempt to make things better, and would pretend like we were best friends even though I heard her *****ing about me behind my back and making fun of me all the time. She was so emotionally and mentally manipulative that the strain of dealing with her had me in therapy by November. If she were nice it might not have been that bad. I decided that I would not take the risk of ending up with someone like that again, and now that I have my own room I don’t think I could ever go back. It is just too nice to be able to control my own environment. But I am not asking my parents to pay extra money or anything like that, I pay for my own schooling so I don’t really have to consider that aspect of things. Though even if my parents were paying, after the trauma of last year I suspect they would insist on a single. It was really just that bad last year.</p>
<p>The first two weeks of school, I had a HORRIBLE roommate (I recently changed rooms, though). Everyone says the first week of college, especially orientation weekend, is crucial for determining whether or not your roommate will click with you and if you will click with your floormates. My roommate had her own friends from HS and was frequently gone. It was like I had a single, because my roommate had no interest in befriending me. I literally had to find alternatives to improve my unfortunate situation. I made a few friends after a week that I consider my “main group” to hang out with. After classes and clubs went underway, I realized how silly it was of me to assume that my main friends will be my roommate/floormates. My new roommate and I are on friendly terms, but we aren’t friends. </p>
<p>I’d MUCH rather have a single this year. I prefer having my own space and someplace to retreat; I could study, watch what I want on TV, sleep late/early, wake late/early, use the phone, and have friends crash here. Also if I had a single, I could get changed in my own room. Both roommates have made it clear that we should change in the bathroom. Super annoying. In the morning, I have go down the hall and awkwardly change in a shower stall.</p>
<p>^ Could you change in the closet? </p>
<p>It’s what I do when we have guests lol.</p>
<p>The closets are small wardrobes.</p>
<p>I mean, kids likely had to change in front of others in a locker room for gym class, I don’t see what is the big deal. Just look away. And it’s not like I’m going to drop my towel and change while nude in the middle of the room. If I take a shower, I’ll get changed there for decency. But to change from pajamas to clothes shouldn’t be a big deal, I won’t be nude.</p>
<p>^ My roommate last year never once changed in the room while I was there. She occasionally would change her shirt, but as far as legitimately changing clothes, she always took everything to the bathroom with her. I chalked it up to her being modest, it’s not like she insisted I change elsewhere so I barely even noticed or cared… Until she started wandering around in her underwear with the door open. I still cannot figure out what the hell was going on there.</p>
<p>^I’d guess she had a crush on you.</p>
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<p>How do you guys live alone? I would never live alone; it’s so boring and lonely.
Or maybe Nerds don’t mind?</p>
<p>I leave my door open and people come to visit all the time, or I go visit them. I have friends over from other places and I go to visit them. I’m not sure why being willing to live with someone who is not my friend and who equates to little more than another warm body in the room would make me more social than living alone and seeing people all the time while having the option to close the door when I’m sick or tired. It’s not as though everyone with a roommate is best buddies with them, as we’ve seen illustrated over and over again on this forum.</p>
<p>I personally have found that it is easier to be more social in my single. I can have friends over whenever I want, have them stay over as late as I want, and I never have to worry about if my roommate will be sleeping or studying or if she’ll already have her own friends over. That, and without another bed in the room I was able to fit a sofa, which has made my room an awesome hangout spot.</p>
<p>If you’re living in a dorm and can fit a sofa into your single along with your bed then you’ve got the biggest single I’ve ever heard of.</p>
<p>I have to have my own room or I will go insane.</p>
<p>It’s about 10x10. <em>shrug</em> </p>
<p>This is my sofa:</p>
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<p>It is beautiful and perfect and at present my most prized possession. My room is ten times more comfortable than it would be without it, and since it folds out it is awesome for movie nights.</p>
<p>Ahh, that’s a pretty large single. I remember the ones in my hall there was the bed on the right side, and a desk with a dresser across the room from it. There was just enough room for a chair to fit in between the bed and the dresser for the aisle in between. A small gap was left at the beginning of the room for an opening to an indentation in the wall to hang your clothes.</p>
<p>I think the dorms at my school, in general, are fairly large-- with the exception of one building that comes to mind. The doubles in my building are actually fairly small as well.</p>
<p>I’m getting a single room for the upcoming school year. The reason that led me to this decision is the uncertainty of whether or not your roommate(s) will be of the same personality as you and the fact that you could live the way you lived before at home without having to worry about adapting or yielding to the living habits of another person.</p>
<p>Heck, I have two awesome roommates this year (as opposed to one terrible one last year) after a failed struggle to find a single on campus, and you know what? I’m having an awesome time! My roommates are great! Our triple is so big a third of the room is serving as a living room with a couch, coffee table, chair, and TV.</p>
<p>I tend to get annoyed very easily… so my own room would be very nice. Also, I like to kind of take control of things, so me and my roomates would class.</p>