<p>List the pros and cons of living in a single room and double room. After you list them, with honest thought, make a decision on which room you would rather dwell in.</p>
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<p>Single for me all the way. No room mates, privicy, and no one messing with my stuff.</p>
<p>If you have the money go 4 single if nt go 4 double</p>
<p>Single
Pros: I have a room to myself, can pretty much do whatever I want in the room.
Cons: It’s loads more money at my school (costs about 1.5 of a double), I like company, I withdraw more when I spend too much time alone, I clean less when I’m by myself (it’s not nasty or anything).</p>
<p>Double
Pros: I love getting to know people, I consider spending that much time with someone fun, it costs a ton less than a double.
Cons: My roommate and I might not get along (not true with this year’s, though), I have to be more circumspect about what I do in the room.</p>
<p>Honestly, I would much rather have a double. The freedom is not worth it.</p>
<p>Double, i love having a roommate. It kinda sucks if you get a bad roommate freshman year ( i was in a triple freshman year, 1 good 1 bad roommate), but when you get to pick a friend you know its better.</p>
<p>Go for the experience with the double. You will either end up with a terrible roommate who will end up teaching you a lot about how to be a good roommate in the end or you will end up with the best friend you ever had.</p>
<p>At my school we have living and learning villages where you get to live with people that share a common interest with you. I think this helps a lot (I’m in one with science) because you are around people that have common goals, and in my case, similar study habits, so it is quieter, which I like.</p>
<p>@wolf14pack i love that idea. what school do you go to? Do lots of schools have something like that?</p>
<p>There are some intentional communities at my school. There are quiet floors at the top floors of two freshman dorms, one wing in another dorm is Christian-based housing, there’s a German dorm (must help prepare meals and always speak German in the public areas of the dorm), to name some.</p>
<p>Double.</p>
<p>I LOVED having a roommate. I enjoyed hearing about her weird family/meeting her weird friends, I loved looking over at her laptop and seeing that she was watching the same exact thing as me, and most of all, I loved having someone to go for 10:00 p.m. frozen yogurt runs with.</p>
<p>I was assigned a single room that shares a half-bath with another single. Of course this other person won’t be near what a real roommate would be, I think it will definitely be possible for us to bond and be friends, or so I hope :p. In my opinion, this is sort of like the best of both worlds. We’ll each have our own space that we can do whatever with, but we’ll have to cooperate in terms of the bathroom. I’ll get my privacy, but hopefully learn a little bit along the way about sharing and cooperating like those in a double!</p>
<p>I’m not in college yet, but I guess I’d rather have a double, a triple, or a quad. I usually get along with most people, and I’m kind of shy so living with people would force me to get to know them. Though, I think I would rather have community bathrooms 'cause you don’t have to keep them clean and your roomates wouldn’t be waiting for you to finish showering/going to the bathroom if you shared a double or a quad.</p>
<p>Dreamer2012–I go to NC State. I’m not sure if other schools do that, but I can honestly say I am so glad I decided to live there! I really wanted that dorm, so at first it was just to guarantee that I got a room there, but I am going back for my second year because I have met so many great people that have interests similar to mine.</p>
<p>I think there are very few non-freshmen who actually would WANT a double as opposed to a single, barring cost, availability, etc. Once you’ve made your friends and stuff you want the privacy. I wouldn’t live in a double again if you paid me.</p>
<p>I think a lot of people overestimate the social benefits of a roommate though. Odds are, you won’t be close, you’ll just coexist. I guess there’s always the chance you guys could be best friends forever though and that’s what people go for. I don’t know, I just never met anyone who actually liked their roommate by the end of the year and I know people from many different dorms and dorm setups.</p>