<p>Title is pretty much self-explanatory.</p>
<p>I don't see a single option for freshmen on the Tufts website but maybe I'm missing something.</p>
<p>I'm pretty sure that it is a random process. You can't choose to be in a single. However, you might be able to switch rooms with someone else who has a single.</p>
<p>Oh, so there are some freshmen who get singles?</p>
<p>Hey Guys,</p>
<p>Unfortunately, freshman year you are unable to get a single (unless you have some specific medical condition that requires it or something). However, you will soon find that having a roommate freshman year ends up being a big plus for the most part if you answer your questionnaire honestly (ie don't put no-smoking if you smoke! that's kind of obvious I suppose) but it just makes your social life more exciting and sometimes when you are in a single environment it can be a little easier to feel lonely.</p>
<p>Anyway as far as freshman housing I highly recommend doing all freshman if you want your dorm to be a bit more social and mixed housing if you prefer to have a quieter environment. Some people like to have the party right near them and others like to have a friend who is in a more social dorm but a quieter environment to go back to. I lived in Houston freshman year (one of the freshman dorms, along with Hill and Tilton) and it was AMAZING. Perfect balance of a social atmosphere but I could still study when I needed to. </p>
<p>BTW- if any of you are looking for a good graduation present, I highly recommend getting BOSE Sound-Cancellation headphones. No, they are not paying me to say this...but honestly it is the greatest investment. You can be sitting in your room while there is a crazy party next door, plug them in and pop on some Bach and you're tranformed into the quiet reading room of the library. </p>
<p>Feel free to post any more questions about housing when the date approaches. Congrats to you all who will be Jumbos next year!!! Tufts is a great place!!</p>
<p>haha, that's weird...this kid who lives a few dorms down from me is a freshman who was placed into a single in South Hall. he was baffled, but that's what happened.</p>
<p>Well, while freshman are supposed to have doubles, there are always exceptions. Hill Hall is an example. This past year (05-06) hill was made an all freshman dorm, but there are singles in Hill, so ther are a handful of students with singles.</p>
<p>There's a chance that you may get a single, but the chances are like next to nothing. If anything, I bet you're more likely to be placed into a forced triple than a single.</p>
<p>oh yeah, I forgot about the Healthy Living 5th floor of Hill. Good one, Tim Li.</p>
<p>In all honesty, why would you WANT a single freshman year? I love living in a double, it's so much more conducive to making friends. I don't think most roommates out and out hate each other, if anything they just sort of travel in different circles and are courteous but not friends. But very many are good friends. I love my roommate, for example.</p>
<p>Nay is right, freshman year isnt the year to get a single. Plus, you can only get singles as a junior or senior (in the general lottery), so why waste the one of the only two years you can get a double.</p>
<p>Freshmen normally will only get singles if they have a disability or can demonstrate special circumstances that would require one. A very small number are assigned singles, but nearly all live in doubles. Living in a double and having to get along with a roommate is, i think, an essential part of the freshman experience.</p>
<p>totally agree, wrath. And also Tim Li speaks the truth - being a double is something really great. I'm actually upset that I can only live in a nice big double with a good friend next year...and after that, on-campus housing = claustrophobia-inducing singles, lol....okay fine they're not THAT bad. particularly in South. But I hear Wren singles used to be closets!</p>