<p>What I experienced at summer camp at Stanford was that everyone knew that their roommate could make the next month of their life a living hell, so they both treated each other with the most possible care. As a result, most roommates at the camp were atleast very good friends. Not sure if it's the same at boarding school.</p>
<p>i'd want a roommate just to start out I wouldn't expect them to be my best friend but you start out knowing someone better than just having no roommate and not really knowing anyone.</p>
<p>istoleyournose, pm me if it was this past year. i've attended stanford camps too :D</p>
<p>your roommate should not be your best friend. one time i had a roommate who started out my best friend, and we had a strained relationship after a while (it was so long ago i forget why) but we were minimally cordial to each other to make sure we weren't as catty as some other roommates. and some were.
another time i had a roommate where we and another person were all best friends. all of us broke off from each other within the first few days, but were still pretty close (ie. we had our own intimate circles, but we'd still hang out, talk, laugh, etc) personally i think we had the most stable, amicable relationship of all the roommates (by the end, though, everybody loved their roommate)</p>
<p>yeah everyone says like when you go off to college or get an apartment or whatever you DO NOT want to have your best friend as a roommate you are going to hate them by the time it's over. Every little thing that didn't used to bother you is going to annoy the hell out of you</p>
<p>yeaaa plus your roommate with probably know things you've done that are probably against the rules, if you get on his or her bad side, that person may tell everyone and get you into trouble, so you're screwed</p>
<p>double=instant friend</p>
<p>I'm not expecting a best friend, but really, if I'm entering the dining hall for breakfast the first day, I'd rather have someone I already semi-know than anything.
But I'd totally be cool with walking up to a table of kids and saying, "Hi, I don't know anybody, can I sit here?"
I was at All State band this year and went up to two girls at a lunch table and told them, "Hi, I have no friends in band this year, can I sit with you?"</p>
<p>Voila, instant friends.</p>
<p>"blares his rap music and has those ridiculous posters of Westbrook and Kanye" I don't want to tell you what you sound like italian</p>
<p>...Man thats weird cuz "alll my friends at boarding school" really don't like that roomate that says dude every other word, thinks the world loves him, has a weird shaped head thats annoying to look at, and posters of grown men with make-up on and their tongue sticking out...I would love to stay with that dude for 8 months ;)</p>
<p>Roomate does not always equal instant friend, but if you're lucky, it might; if you're somewhere that no one really knows each other, for instance. </p>
<p>I've never done summer programs anywhere like Stanford (yay for being poor), but I have done them at local state universities, and it can be nice to have a roommate. I think, though, that depending on the person, I'd like a roommate. </p>
<p>Either way, you have to be rather forward in personality if you want instant friends. If you're shy, well, you might have to wait a while. I'm forward (without a doubt), and I'd have to say that for the first year or so, as I adjust to life, I'd like to be by myself. I have to adapt to the environment before I can handle distractions like a roommate, lol.</p>
<p>I would like a rooommate, because not only will you have an automatic friend (someone you know, at least), but you will have someone to talk to, no matter what. Also, yoy won't feel as alone as you would if you had someone in your room when the nest door rooms seem like they are having a party.</p>
<p>Exactly wht mickmouse says, basically, is why I want a friend. I am the goofiest, most forward person EVER. I will literally go up to strangers and say hi! In the mall or something.</p>
<p>do schools let 9th graders have singles though???</p>
<p>At SPS there are 9th graders with singles.</p>
<p>Deerfield freshman girls all have singles - my daughter didn't like that. She wanted a room mate.</p>
<p>It depends on the school, but most schools will have a combination. Amen Hall at Exeter has recently been renovated, and is now ALL singles. <3</p>
<p>I would rather have a single. When I visited some of the schools with single dorms almost all the students had their door open at all times so you could pick and choose when you wanted to hangout with a friend. I find that better than being forced to hangout with someone you might not even like at all times.</p>
<p>I wanted a double for the extra alarm clock, and let me tell you, it was the best descision possible. You don't even know how many times I've clicked disable on my alarm and went back to sleep only to be saved by my roomie telling me to get my lazy self up.</p>
<p>The insta-friend thing is nice, I guess. Like, me and my room mate don't hang out outside of the room, but I like her. Really, single or double doesn't effect your friends though. If you have a single, you will make friend with other people in singles just as quickly as room mates.</p>
<p>i'd rather have a single too...
how do they pick ur roomates???</p>
<p>At Lawrenceville, everybody who wants singles gets them</p>
<p>roomie! even if we’re not that close, it would be nice to have someone there all the time.</p>