<p>I know that this question has been asked many times before, but I am REALLY having a problem deciding whether or not to get a single. I want a rooommate, but only if she's cool :/ I feel really skeptical just getting a random roommate. Are there any disadvantages to getting a single? Does it hinder you in any way from making as many friends in the first week. I need help deciding! thanks</p>
<p>Same here, I'm having a really difficult time deciding.</p>
<p>When choosing a double, you could either be very lucky and have a roomate who becomes a good friends to you or you could be stuck with a person you hate/dislike for a year. I think, personally, a good option would be to get a single freshman year, and after you have made a few good friends, you can ask one of them to be your roomate in your sophomore year. Just my personal opinion after hearing stories from students.</p>
<p>Yea, I think I am leaning for a single now. I figured that everyone around you also has a single so they are looking to make friends too.</p>
<p>Cornell student here - something to keep in mind:</p>
<p>When I was a freshman, I got a single, and I loved it. However, the first few days were hard without a roommate because I didn't have an automatic friend, i.e. someone to go to lunch with, dinner with, etc. Even if you don't like your roommate, you would have someone to hang on to for those first few days before you made more friends.</p>
<p>In general, though, having a single is great. I highly recommend it. Just keep in mind the above.</p>
<p>I would think it would be the opposite:
have a double first, so, like JBIG said, you have an automatic form of social interaction (hopefully positive), and then sophomore year when you are more comfortable around the campus and with being alone and independant, get a single.</p>
<p>But I haven't been to college yet, so I don't know if what I'm saying is all that wise - it's just the impression I get, thought I'd throw it out there.</p>
<p>Yeah-personally I'm going for a double. I think I'll need the forced interaction!</p>
<p>no. You double people are wrong.</p>
<p>The most of the advantages to a single are numerous and obvious: your own space, hours, messiness/cleanliness, decorating, privacy, etc. You don't have to work around another person living in your room. You don't have to worry about sexile issues either way.</p>
<p>The only advantage to a double people ever have listed, to my knowledge, is that you have an automatic friend the first week. If you two have very dissimilar personalities, you'll have an automatic friend, say, the first day or two. Then either you or he won't want chill really. Second of all, no matter what, if you're in a single OR a double, you're not going to make any MORE friends unless you walk outside of your room and talk to the people around you. Every single person in your building will be a new student at cornell and know next to nobody. That means everyone will be as eager as you are to make friends. So just walk into your hall, and say "hi, i'm _______," just like everyone else will be. Bamo, instand friends for the first week. The ones you get along with and don't get along with will sort themselves out over the course of the week, but regardless, you still aren't trading a year's worth of privacy and convenience for 3 days of superficial companionship. My best friend here lives on my hall, a few doors down. It's like having a roommate, except he lives about 20 paces away in his own space, instead of in mine. </p>
<p>You'll notice everyone theorizes about lonliness in a single, and friendship in a double, but nobody ever comes and posts saying "man thank god i have a double" or "i hate my single i'm lonely." It's usually the other way around. "my roommate sucks, she does this annoying thing ________" or "you should get a single, too!" Anybody still gunning for a double?</p>
<p>Ugh. Sparticus, STOP. I want my single and you're making it extremely sensible for everyone ELSE to want a single... possibly MY single!</p>
<p>i want a single but my parents aren't going for it</p>
<p>are there singles in the transfer center?</p>
<p>yea whenever I tell my friends I might be getting a single they think im some sort of antisocial freak. Haha. Why is this such a hard decision to make???? Well, theres a small chance of getting a rooommate that you become best friends with right?</p>
<p>ahh i know i cant decide about single or double either! and now that housing forms are up now i really cant decide, rachel we'll talk to see if we want to room!- that would be really fun or if we decide we want singles haha :)</p>
<p>Another thing to keep in mind: singles cost more money, $800 more a semester. This may not be factored into your financial aid, which is calculated for a person in a double.</p>
<p>But singles rule! I recommend them x 1293.</p>
<p>Freshman year I had a single, and it was glorious.</p>
<p>Soph. year I roomed with a random person, and it wasn't too bad. Partly because the guy I roomed with wasn't evil and also because I'm pretty easygoing, so stuff doesn't bother me that much.</p>
<p>I went to the housing event for upperclassmen yesterday.</p>
<p>A group of us (2 guys 3 girls) were trying to get a block of singles. Our number was called, and we found out they had just sold out of singles, so the other guy in our block started talking to a person pushing for an appartment sale so he went with that. It was like $1000 more than a single on campus, so I just took half a double in Cascadilla Hall next to the girls in our block, with someone I have never met before. . . .I'm definately taking a gamble.</p>
<p>Doubles are great if you get along well with your roommate. (Hoping that next year's roomate will be fine!) I only had my own room at home for a couple years so I guess I'm just used to not having my own space. </p>
<p>Personally I'd rather save the $800 and get a double if I were an incoming freshman again. My spring break sucks, I'm going home for the week. . .but think of the applications that extra $800 might have if you wanted to take a trip for break. It could be pretty useful.</p>
<p>A single won't hinder you from making friends if you're social</p>
<p>I would have gotten a single had I not wanted to live in the townhouses. The advantadges are HUGE - you can crash whenever you want without worrying about your roommate making noise/etc, you sleep/wake up whenever you want to (keep in mind that if you have a double, you're basically waking up whenever their alarm goes off), you don't need to worry about where to hook up/you don't need to find a place to crash when your roomie is hooking up, etc.</p>
<p>And you shouldn't need a roommate to have people to eat with/etc - anybody with basic social skills can find a few friends up here. I'm in the townhouses, which are notorious for being anti-social, and I have had 0 problems making friends/finding people to party with.</p>
<p>So, I've heard conflicting "reports."</p>
<p>Is it known whether more people request singles than there are singles? It seems as though most people here who ended up with singles didn't request them, leading me to believe that if you request them you'll likely get one.</p>
<p>Yet some people have stated that the demand for singles exceeds the supply.</p>
<p>Which is it?</p>
<p>Usually the demand exceeds the supply however apparently for the class of 2009, the supply exceeded the demand and some students received singles against their request. Hopefully for those of us who want singles, that occurrence will repeat itself for the class of 2010.</p>
<p>It probably will not now that all of us have been enlightened by how great singles are.</p>