<p>i'll be a freshman next year, and i really want a single room. are there any houses that are mostly single and would it be hard for a freshman to get a single room?</p>
<p>Macgregor House is totally singles (ok, not TOTALLY. I think there are 2 doubles in the whole building and you only end up in them if you want to end up in them). Put Macgregor as #1 on your summer housing lottery and chances are you’ll end up there. However, this isn’t 100% guaranteed. There are other dorms which have singles, but your best bet is Macgregor House.</p>
<p>Are the only two singles dorms East Campus and Macgregor?</p>
<p>The singles in Macgregor are tiny. You are better off getting a double somewhere else freshman year and then getting a single at that dorm sophomore year when you have some seniority.</p>
<p>ok, i’ll put macgregor as my #1. i hope i get it. i don’t care how small it is, i really REALLY value my privacy. thanks! =)</p>
<p>Hey, they’re not that small. 8x15, IIRC. Definitely big enough for a bedroom – most people in MacGregor spend their waking hours outside their rooms.</p>
<p>Anyway, most (all, maybe?) dorms have singles. It’s just that they’re snapped up by upperclassmen, so usually freshmen aren’t housed in them.</p>
<p>Do you have a reason you need a single, or would you just really like one?</p>
<p>Because if it’s the second, I say scrap the idea and focus on doing rush right. Trust me, your happiness is far more dependent on ending up in a matching dorm culture than on ending up in a single. (This is, of course, not to discourage you from looking at MacGregor or EC.)</p>
<p>Just to clarify, EC is not a ‘singles dorm.’ Of the 12 freshman on my hall this past year, only 2 were in singles. All non-freshmen in EC are in singles (unless they <em>want</em> to double), though.</p>
<p>I agree with Piper on this one. I <em>really</em> wanted a single, too; so much that, even though I loved EC, I was seriously considering living in MacGregor even though I liked it less. Luckily I ended up staying in EC; I probably would have been miserable otherwise. I did have a roommate, though. I was kind of annoyed by it for the first few days/weeks-ish, but I soon realized that I spent almost no time in my room; it was really just a place to keep all my stuff. (Plus, I just moved into my nice new sophomore single room, and it feels SOOOO BIG!)</p>
<p>So basically, I understand what you mean, but don’t let that be the deciding factor in your dorm decision. If you do end up with a roommate elsewhere, hopefully you two can work out some kind of arrangement so that you don’t drive each other crazy.</p>
<p>which dorms do you have a high probability of getting into if put on your top 5?</p>
<p>It changes every year – it depends on the choices of everybody else in your class, and those choices aren’t consistent from year to year.</p>
<p>I was sure, before I went to MIT, that I would only want a single. I liked living with my temp roommate so much, and we had such similar tastes in living groups, that we stapled our forms (which is the way in EC hall rush to request to room with somebody).</p>
<p>Please please do not just choose a dorm based on whether you will get a single. How you interact with the people will matter a lot more for your happiness, based on my own experiences and the experiences that I have seen others have.</p>