<p>I personally prefer freedom so that I tend to be alone mostly. Well, I am always told to be not like this, I mean, alone. </p>
<p>So I want to change. But is it worth it? Is it annoying to have one? Or is it good? </p>
<p>You know everyone has a different biological rhythm. I always study in the evenings, but what if he sleeps early and studies in the morning? We will NOT fit.</p>
<p>And there are so many pros and cons, I think. So what are your opinions, my fellow CC'ers?</p>
<p>I am lucky because i met my roomate and we picked each other out at an admitted student day. :) Try to go to something similar and find someone you like.</p>
<p>Many schools have roommate questionnaires to deal with some of those problems. I'm an introverted person who prefers having my own space, but I think that having a roommate my first year helped me open up a lot as a person. It's a valuable learning experience that you really shouldn't pass up. You don't have to be best friends with your roommate to get along.</p>
<p>A roommate will help a lot. Unless you make good friends with other people in your hall, your roommate is the most convenient person to ask do you want to go to dinner, can i use your printer, do you have an extra pencil, etc. You don't have to be best friends, but it is a great experience.</p>
<p>I had a single my freshman year and loooved it. This year, I was forced to live with a roomie and have hated every minute of it. Having a roomie can go either way. You could end up being best friends or mortal enemies in the end (or somewhere in between). Personally, I think the single is the safest bet, but you will have to put more effort into your social life.</p>
<p>I don't buy the whole "a double is a college experience" thing. A roommate will not necessarily help you meet new people or become more sociable. My roommate and I travel in completely different circles, and I have not met any friends through her or she through me. I personally would have loved to have a choice between a single or a double. It's not always a huge deal, but when you keep even slightly different hours, or you just want some alone time (to study, listen to music, watch TV, hang out with non-mutual friends, etc.), it can be a big pain.</p>
<p>^Hun, it's called character building. Having a roommate teaches you more about your likes and dislikes. You learn the art of compromise and in many cases, you are exposed to new things.</p>
<p>Take it from someone who has gone to boarding school for the past 7 years and lived in singles, doubles, quadruples, quintuples, whatever 11 is... etc:
single dorms, if you are not an actively social person, tend to isolate you. </p>
<p>Being around someone for day to day activities such as meals and work is a great way for an introverted person to let someone get to know them in a comfortable and non-intimidating (opposite of icebreaker parties) way. I definitely plan on going for a double, definitely for the first year at least.</p>
<p>My daughter had room mates for 2 years in boarding school. One not good experience. Well she thought it was not too bad but the room mate got really annoyed about their differeing sleep schedules (my D is a night owl she was an early bird). One great experience - she and the roomie got on great but did not really hang out outside their room much. They shared for most of the 2 years except for a temporary time when there was a problem with the room. Awful experience - she had to move in temporarily with a girl who did not want a room mate - she would literaly not talk to my daughter which was very uncomfortable. Needless to say my D is in the single room camp for college - just did not want to deal with it. She is moving off campus to an apartment but still wants her own room.</p>
<p>I've always had a single. I prefer it. I don't have to be considerate of my roommate, if I want to do jumping jacks butt naked while blasting Spongebob on my television at 4am, I can do that.
I also painted my dorm room pink:
<p>(Sorry...I got picture happy), I don't know if I could have done with a roommate.
Then again, I'm a selfish only child. ;)
Judging from the pictures, you'll also notice a single is pretty large (at least at my college).</p>
<p>I wrote singles on my housing app, but I don't know if I will get a single since I was one of the last people to fill it out. One of the reasons I like singles is because of all of the bad roomate stories I heard. My friend's brother who goes to George Washington had a roomate who vomited everywhere and refused to clean it up. My cousin at Emory actually had an alcoholic roomate who was once so drunk that she couldn't find her keys so she broke the window in order to get in the dorm.</p>
<p>I think one way people can still be social with a single dorm is if they keep the door open (while they're in the room of course). It just lets people know they're free to meet you. Also, I like meeting new people, so I will definitely go out of my way to make friends.</p>
<p>My son's first roommate would not only borrow his belongings without asking but would lend them out to other people. Damaged an expensive tennis racket. He moved out but had left a lot of stuff in the room. He was let into the room while my son was not there and several things went missing. The next room mate was a little strange. My son would be studying or playing his guitar and go for a shower and come back to find his desk tidied up and his books (which he was using) put away, or his guitar put away in it's case, and/or his bed made. The room mate was not a neat freak - his side of the room was a mess. When my son would ask why he made his bed or put his stuff away he would deny it and say the dorm mom had come in and done it. Son went and asked her and she laughed and said no she did not go round tidying up rooms. Not as bad as the stealing room mate but just odd. He moved out of the (paid for) dorms mid-semester. I think his experiences plus her own made my daughter determined not to have a room mate. She also likes her own space some of the time.</p>
<p>A friend of mine had a roommate last year who was homosexual (and my friend didn't know about it until a few months down the road. Some boys seem to hide pretty well in the closet). My friend said that at night, he had a hard time going to sleep because every other day his gay roommate kept on stirring around in bed just before starting to quietly masturbate literally 5 feet away from where my friend was sleeping.</p>
<p>The scariest thing: one day, my friend was going to do his laundry and was putting his clothes in the washing machine until he noticed the slight smell of semen coming from one of his boxers. He held the boxers up to his nose, and surely, it was there, as sweet as the scent of summer peas. Shuffling the boxers around with haste, he eventually noticed a slight transparent stain, slightly fizzed by the gay roommate's unsuccessful attempts at rubbing it off. My friend was sure it wasn't his stain because he didn't masturbate in his boxers, and after masturbating he always showered or at least washed his genitals sufficiently. Luckily for my friend, this only happened once, but it was still enough to convince him to not take his chances the next year.</p>
<p>rofl these stories are hilarious but I still have to feel bad! Note to other students reading this, for as many horror stories there are just as many stories, if not more of people being content or happy.</p>
