<p>I am wondering if a single dorm is a good decision for freshman year. I want to live on campus so that I'm in close proximity to student life / party life. However, I consider myself a social introvert, meaning that I enjoy the company of others, but only on my terms. Being forced to be around people stresses me out sometimes - I need my alone time.</p>
<p>I was wondering if anyone here decided to get a single dorm freshman year. Do you lose some of the social atmosphere because you don't have a buddy system to both show up at parties together at the beginning of the year? Did you ever get lonely in a single dorm?</p>
<p>I'm simply worried because I don't want to alter my schedule to become compatible with anyone else. Sometimes there's days where I want to be around lots of people at once, and sometimes there's days where I want to be completely alone to relax.</p>
<p>Would your college allow you to have a single dorm room? Many colleges, if not most, do not offer single rooms to freshman without medical accommodation. </p>
<p>Let’s just assume that it does. I’m not entirely sure where I want to go yet.</p>
<p>Lonely? Absolutely not, I loved having a single dorm freshman year. You can leave your door open or closed. Freshman dorms tend to be quite social, so it is good to be able to shut your door and get some work done. </p>
<p>I roomed with a sorority sister in the dorms sophomore year, and I had to pay her to leave because our schedules were so different and she was bothering me getting up early and making noise. Every day. So in January, she found a place in the sorority house and I paid off the rest of the housing contract. Best $1,000 my parents ever spent.</p>
<p>You can never predict whether your roommate will have personal issues that you don’t want to get involved with.</p>
<p>That’s awesome! I just think it sounds like I’d have more freedom in a single dorm because there would obviously times where living with someone in a 15 x 15 box would get annoying.</p>
<p>"…living with someone in a 15 x 15 box would get annoying."</p>
<p>That sounds like an enormous dorm room from what I’ve seen. From what I’ve seen it looks as though a single costs at least a couple of thousand dollars more than sharing a room. Something to consider. </p>